Who's Your Tom Chorske

Background: I grew up with Tom Chorske (for those outside of MN, he played NHL hockey for 10 years, in MN that's a big deal). Tom was (and still is to some degree) everybody's All American...great athlete, great student, great guy, etc. In a lot of circles (namely Minnesota, namely hockey) Tom became "famous".

Invariably (once a month at least) I will run into a person from the past (classmate, teacher, coach, neighbor, principal, etc) and the second question they ask me (after how are you doing?)is are you still in touch with TOM CHORSKE? No lie. After a while, I have just come to realize that people are infatuated with fame/famous people.

So, the other day Tom and I were talking and I'm telling him about the most recent "are you still in touch with Tom Chorske?". It was a Principal at our elementary school. No lie. As he and I were chuckling, Tom says, "that's nothing, you don't know how many times I have to answer a question about Marty Brodeur (legendary NHL goalies) or fill in the blank NHL great."

After that line, I felt lucky to only have one of these instances occasionally.

How about you guys. Who is your Tom Chorske?

Criteria:


Someone Famous
Someone Infamous
Someone you're somewhat associated with