Lendaddy -
I knew a couple of the players, but not well. Remy Hamilton and I hung out a couple of times (just b/c we were at the same ginmills -- Rick's usually and he beat ND with a last-minute fieldgoal in '94, while I was dating an ND girl who was an insufferable ND fan (redundant?) so I had bragging rights for 2 years as ND and Mich didn't play in '95). I knew Jay Riemersma -- we almost threw down in that burrito joint on South U. the first night we met (he'd have kicked my a$$) and by the end of the evening we were getting along famously. But that's the extent of it. A buddy of mine was tutoring a lot of the hoops and football players as a TA, so I met a number of them, but I can't say I "knew" them.
It would've been nice to go through law school on a football scholarship, though. I played some semi-pro ball while I was studying in the Netherlands during law school, but it was more like club ball than anything "serious".
Re: Galils, my cousin is a photographer/artist/graphic designer and did the first publicity shots of the first Galil in the US. I didn't fire it, but got to hold it (this is years ago, obviously). The Galil had to have an armed escort with it at all times, which was kind of trippy.
If I was going to drop some serious coin on a rifle, it'd be either the AI AW or Sako TRG-42, either in .338 LM, naturally. Unertl optics in all likelihood.
