Yeah, you definitely don't want to start out introducing yourself. It's like when Bill Cosby would go to buy a car. He would put on his most torn up clothes and dumb down his grammar. He even did a Cosby show based on that.
But then, when the time is right, you play the "you are now friends with a sports star card" and make that worth more. It would work on me. I'd rather have Issac Bruce as a bud I can call anytime than cash. Especially if he already gave me a load of cash and was SINCERELY sorry.
Of course, I'm a sick bastard, so I would ask him to be a clown at my 9 year old girls birthday party.
"Remember me? Yeah? I need a clown."
He does that, he's paid in full.
Where's my bike?