In reality they'd never met until seconds before the picture was snapped. The site was one of the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia last weekend, and the two men are famously huge fans of the Boss.
One of them is a bit more famous than the other, of course.
The man on the right is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The one on the left is Princeton water polo coach Luis Nicolao.
They could be twins, actually.
TigerBlog follows Governor Christie on Twitter, as much for his commentary on his personal interests as his positions on the salient issues for the state.
Not too long ago, Christie tweeted his ten favorite Springsteen songs, a list that featured overlap with TB's own list on maybe four or five songs.
Maybe more than any other current politician, Christie comes across as just another guy from the neighborhood, which probably explains his popularity both nationally and in a state that has gone against Christie's party in the last five Presidential elections.
Christie had his moment on national TV last week when he gave the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention. In the interest of keeping his blog politically neutral, TB will remind everyone that the keynote address at this week's Democratic National Convention was given by Julian Castro.
The other guy in the picture with Christie from the Springsteen concert gets to be on television tonight, though not in the same politically charged way.
Nicolao and his 13th-ranked men's water polo team host third-ranked California at 6 this evening in a game that will televised on ESPNU as the first Princeton event on ESPN this academic year. The next will be the football game against Georgetown in on Sept. 21, followed by men's soccer against Creighton on Oct. 9.
The game against Cal is part of the 12-team Princeton Invitational, which also includes second-ranked UCLA. The event runs from Princeton's game at 1 this afternoon against Cal-Lutheran through Sunday.
This is the first huge home weekend for Princeton Athletics of the 2012-13 academic year, and there are some great events, including the water polo.
There's also the men's soccer game tomorrow at 2 on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium in a game that will pull Nancy Donigan in two directions.
Who's Nancy Donigan? She works in the compliance office here (she also handles the departmental awards), and she's been here longer than you'd guess possible to look at her. Nancy's husband Joe is a Temple man who also works here at Princeton, and his brother - Nancy's brother-in-law - is Rutgers soccer coach Dan Donigan.
Way back when, TigerBlog covered Dan Donigan when he was a player at Steinert High, and he went on to a great career at UConn. His was the head coach at St. Louis for nine years before taking over at RU a year ago.
The Scarlet Knights are 1-2, with a win over Fordham and losses last week in Nebraska against SIU-Edwardsville and Creighton, who is ranked third nationally. Princeton is 1-1, having beaten Seton Hall and lost to No. 15 St. John's.
Princeton-Rutgers is always a great matchup, no matter what the sport. One note - if you're coming to the game Saturday, you have to park on the football stadium/Jadwin Gym side and walk over (about a five-minute walk; it's good for you) because of student move-in on the other side of campus.
There are three soccer games this weekend at Roberts Stadium, including the women's games tonight (7) against St. Joe's and Sunday at noon against Temple.
And then there's field hockey.
The 3-0 Tigers are ranked fourth, with wins over nationally ranked Duke, Wake Forest and most recently Penn State, 3-2 in overtime last night.
Next up? A game against Richmond Sunday at noon in what will be the first game played on the artificial turf at Bedford Field.
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