"He came to me at halftime," Cooper recalled, "and said, 'Coach, I'm playing in the second half.' "

Early on, Cooper recalls, members wanted T-shirts and sweatshirts, as well as suitable hats.

And keeping things interesting, Cooper and a newly brunette Cornishvividly recalled their very unusual first dates for MarieClaire.

"I remember pulling my hair out, literally," Cooper recalls.

"Elway and Marino were Peyton's heroes," Cooper recalls.

"Don't go too far out on Wilson," Cooper recalled Rove saying, adding that Wilson's wife worked at "the agency."

Cooper recalled a large water tank, as well as having to pedal a bicycle vigorously to generate power.

"We didn't have sand wedges then," Cooper once recalled.

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"They walked right past me," Cooper recalls.