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Photos of the Day: Andrew Norrigian Meets James Brown

The East Meadow resident greeted the NFL Hall-of-Famer at the LI Lizards game at Hofstra University.

East Meadow Resident and Long Island Lizards head ballboy Andrew Norrigian  got to spend some quality time and swap lacrosse stories with NFL Hall-of-Famer, lacrosse icon, sports Announcer and actor James Brown on July 7 at the Lizards' lacrosse game at Hofstra University.

Brown is one on the new owners of the Long Island Lizards professional outdoor lacrosse team and he is shown signing autographed balls for the youth lacrosse players and Lizard fans attending the game.

Brown has been very supportive of the Lizards staff, especially their ballboys and loves sharing stories of his Long Island roots and youth sports with them.

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Norrigian plays lacrosse for the East Meadow PAL also hopes to make the lacrosse team at in the spring of 2013 with some of the pointers that Brown shared with him.

This post was written and submitted by Bill Alderman. Have you met James Brown? Tell us in the comments.

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