Aaron Plessinger had just settled his lanky 6-foot-1 frame into his airplane seat — en route to Nashville, Tenn., for round 14 of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross season — when he was posed a question from the airline stewardess.
The long-haired, mustache-sporting athlete from Ohio turned to the young woman as she asked, a bit hesitantly, “Hey, are you Jason Anderson?”
Stifling a chuckle, Plessinger quickly informed her that he was not Jason Anderson.
Though they are both 6-foot-1, the two are starkly different, with Plessinger looking every bit like his “Cowboy” nickname while Anderson embraces a more “hip” style that meshes with the crowd in Southern California, where he resides.
“But she knew where I was from,” Plessinger said, as he stood under the Red Bull KTM awning in the pits at Tennessee’s Nissan Stadium explaining his recent encounter.
He added that the flight attendant later returned to his seat to share a message from her boyfriend, which was, “Get well soon, Cowboy.”
“That was pretty cool,” said Plessinger, who missed the final rounds of the Supercross season with an elbow injury.
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