<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">About ten years ago I did business with a family owned company in Tampa, Florida. They made liquid cleansers for the dollar store chains and sold other things - I was a vendor. The elder guy in the business was a “Seminole to the max.” His office had a big 5 foot circular Seminole rug on the wall behind his desk. It was a thing of real beauty. Inever went to Florida Stateand I still loved it - classy.His Florida State Seminole Football helmet was on the corner of his desk and his jersey from his playing days framed on the wall across from his desk. He lived and breathed that school. You might know him.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">I don’t know how to put it any other way. He had more money than the Pope.
I was in his office one day and he started talking about his support of Florida State Football. To understand my story, he was not bragging. He had too much money to brag about what he did. These are a few of the things he said. I will never forget how casually he talked about his support of that team.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">He said that he had four players on the team. He said that after each game, he had full access to the locker room from his playing days and his money. He saidhe always carried four packetsof billseach containing five $100.00 bills folded and paper-clipped together in his pocket. His guys all knew him and when he came in they would be in front of him really quick. With each hand shake, he transferred $500.00 to each of his guys. Then he had a number of $100.00 bills folded in the other pocket and he would shake hands with other players as he chose.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">He said that they went to (the Orange Bowl? I think) One year and after the game, he went to his guys and told themHe never had a chance to get an Orange Bowl warm-up sweat suit and would they consider selling their warm-ups to him for $1000.00. They all said yes and he paid them and said he would drop by campus in a month or so to get them. He laughed and said he never showed up to pick up the sweats he purchased.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">He gave tickets away to all the Florida State home games. He used them as business gifts. He bought them from his guys. He tried to give me tickets, knowing that I would not be in town for the games. He said it was “rude to not offer them, because he liked me.”</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">Why am I telling this? I think at some level of money – much more than I have, the really rich guys just do this. I have no idea how you can keep them out of the locker room to stop it. If you did, they would just do it outside, or drop by the dorms.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">My friend is dead now. His son is a big fan and I guess he does it for his dad now. I haven’t seen him in seven or eight years, since his dad’s funeral.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">That level of school support is really strange. I won’t say it doesn’t happen at MSU. I know one or two people at that level of wealth, and I know they don’t do what my Seminole Buddy did. Doesn’t mean that others don’t.</font></span></p>
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</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">I don’t know how to put it any other way. He had more money than the Pope.
I was in his office one day and he started talking about his support of Florida State Football. To understand my story, he was not bragging. He had too much money to brag about what he did. These are a few of the things he said. I will never forget how casually he talked about his support of that team.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">He said that he had four players on the team. He said that after each game, he had full access to the locker room from his playing days and his money. He saidhe always carried four packetsof billseach containing five $100.00 bills folded and paper-clipped together in his pocket. His guys all knew him and when he came in they would be in front of him really quick. With each hand shake, he transferred $500.00 to each of his guys. Then he had a number of $100.00 bills folded in the other pocket and he would shake hands with other players as he chose.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">He said that they went to (the Orange Bowl? I think) One year and after the game, he went to his guys and told themHe never had a chance to get an Orange Bowl warm-up sweat suit and would they consider selling their warm-ups to him for $1000.00. They all said yes and he paid them and said he would drop by campus in a month or so to get them. He laughed and said he never showed up to pick up the sweats he purchased.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">He gave tickets away to all the Florida State home games. He used them as business gifts. He bought them from his guys. He tried to give me tickets, knowing that I would not be in town for the games. He said it was “rude to not offer them, because he liked me.”</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">Why am I telling this? I think at some level of money – much more than I have, the really rich guys just do this. I have no idea how you can keep them out of the locker room to stop it. If you did, they would just do it outside, or drop by the dorms.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">My friend is dead now. His son is a big fan and I guess he does it for his dad now. I haven’t seen him in seven or eight years, since his dad’s funeral.</font></span></p>
</p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">That level of school support is really strange. I won’t say it doesn’t happen at MSU. I know one or two people at that level of wealth, and I know they don’t do what my Seminole Buddy did. Doesn’t mean that others don’t.</font></span></p>
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