NBA goes Country...?

For all you Lakers fans out there... take a gander at the player sitting in the front row all the way to the right. Recognize him? Mark Madsen. Turns out he's a really good country dancer...

So last night I went country dancing and this REALLY tall guy asked me to dance. (I asked him. 6'9" - I came just above his elbow) He introduced himself as Mark. So we were dancing and chatting, he's from northern california and likes to cook... and he's debating between Stanford and BYU for his graduate studies... I told him about my classroom and then the song ended. He shook my hand and asked what my last name was to look me up on facebook (ok, that was a little weird, guys reading this... ask a girl for her number, not her last name...)

About 3 dances later, Mark comes back around. He tells me he can't find me on facebook (ok. that was a little weird too... you already facebook stalked me? we're still at country dancing...) so he said I would have to look him up. He has a picture of him fishing, and his last name is Madsen. I said ok. (thinking maybe or maybe not because the whole facebook thing is odd). We dance and we start talking about california and he said he lived in LA for awhile. I asked doing what and he said he played with the Lakers for a bit. I laughed. ("Just because you're tall doesn't mean you played for the Lakers...") the song was over so I thanked him for the dance and walked back to the side.

I came home from country dancing and my good friend Joe-big Lakers fan- had called me so I called him back. I was telling him my adventures about weird facebook guy and I decided to ask if there was ever a Mark Madsen on the Lakers. Joe kind of freaked out. yes. there was. Then he freaked out some more when I told him I danced with him twice and he was good! Mark had even flipped me. (He had said "you're light." I said back "you're big"). Joe insisted that I date him so we could go on a double date and he could meet him. I said that was ridiculous. But he did convince me to be friends with a famous athlete on facebook :)

O how I love country dancing...
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