Michael Irvin's Gunman Run-In

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DALLAS -- Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin says he calmly chatted with a gunman in another vehicle after the armed passenger turned out to be a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Irvin, who was not harmed, says he was "very afraid."

A Dallas police report says Irvin was stopped at a red light Monday night in North Dallas when two men in a truck pulled up next to him.

The driver rolled down his window, so Irvin did the same, thinking the two men recognized the radio talk show host and television commentator.

The passenger flashed a gun. Then the retired NFL star heard one of them call out his name and mentioned being a "huge Cowboy fan."

"The passenger pulled out a semiautomatic and I knew what time it was," Irvin told the Dallas Morning News. "But he said, 'Oh, that's Michael Irvin, with the Dallas Cowboys.' "

Irvin says he began talking with the men about the team's disappointing 9-7 season and Dallas not making it to the Super Bowl.

"So we started talking about the Cowboys and everything," Irvin said in the Morning News. "Then they got back on the highway."

The pair eventually drove off.

"I tell you what, I'm glad he was a Cowboy fan," Irvin told the Morning News.

Here's a quick story about the only time someone ever pulled a gun on me. I was driving, in Conshohocken, when a white van pulled up next to me.

The guy motioned at me to roll my window down, so I did. Then I recognized him. I don't know which guy he was, I don't remember, but the guy was on Jackass. He wasn't one of the main guys, but he was definitely on Jackass.

Anyway, the guy told me he had these speakers. He was doing a delivery, and they were extra, and he could give them to me at a great price.

Now this is a scam. I don't know if you've ever heard of this scam, but this is how you end up buying 50 dollar speakers, which you think are 800 dollar speakers, for 200 dollars.

So I told him, "nah bro, no thanks."

And he goes "come on man, you gotta see these speakers."

Then I tell him "dude, I know it's a scam."

At which point, he flashed a gun, and drove off quickly.

Then he jumped into a shopping cart, rode down the street in it, used a stun gun on his private parts and filled his parents house with zoo animals.