ETEWAF: From WIRED a couple of months ago. I have run out of interest. Everybody seems to have eaten Quake and Quisp with Wanda Jackson and Hasil Adkins while wearing their soupy Sales Fan Club Badge, nowadays.
I go do now.
Yes- YES there's an ad at the beginning of the clip I CAN'T HELP THAT. Hit mute or something.
I find that this is always a real pick-me-up, Dave's "I Can't Read":
"He's great, but you have to play him in a cage." - Casey Stengel -
Jimmy Piersall was one of baseball's most colorful personalities. He had an above average career with a number of major league teams in the 50's and 60's but is probably best known as the subject of the Tony Perkins/Karl Malden movie "Fear Strikes Out".
His battles against fans, coaches, opposing players, umpires and scoreboards were legendary. Later diagnosed with bi-polar, Jimmy was forced to miss much of the 1953 season as he was sent to Westborough State Hospital for "nervous exhaustion".
Among his most infamous acts was coming to bat wearing a Beatle wig and playing air guitar with his bat, taking bows after catching routine fly balls and as depicted below, running the bases backward after his 100th career home run. The aforementioned Stengel fired him days later, not amused by the stunt.
Jimmy went on to a checkered career as a broadcaster for a number of teams. He was ultimately fired for calling the teams wives a "bunch of horny broads".
He disowned the bio calling Anthony Perkins a "sniveling wuss". Couldn't agree more....
Jimmy is alive and well at 80 years of age, insulting radio talk show listeners with his opinions of the current state of major league sports. He remains as a true legend of the game.
Lou Albano passed away today at age 76. Long recognized as one of the greatest showmen of his day, the Captain had a special rapport with his stable of wrestlers that included the likes of Greg Valentine, Jimmy Snuka, The Iron Sheik and many others. He is credited with guiding 15 tag team champions to the belt, including the Wild Samoans. His managerial career rivaled that of Fred Blassie, The Grand Wizard and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. He could talk some shit...... here's a clip from 1984 with Mean Gene Okerlund that captures the essence of the Captain.
From I Love This World comes this link to the immortal Dan Haggerty - aka "Grizzly Adams" who has a new TV show The Great American Motorcycle Show which features American made choppers. Dan also will sell you a personalized video messages, autographed pics, and various mustards, rubs and hot sauces (all bearing his likeness).
Of particular note is the "Dan Haggerty Smiling Jesus Painting Print Archival Mounted Ready To Frame Painting", personally signed by Dan. I'm ready to mount his bad boy over the living room mantle. Hot Damn!!
For all you greenhorns that don't have a clue. Here's is the intro to the "Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"
Dan's website is here: Dan Haggerty. Go there now and spend some well earned cash.
Hard to believe that the legend that was Fred Blassie would've celebrated his 90th birthday a few weeks back. If he had lived to celebrate this milestone, no doubt he would've pooh poohed the whole longevity thing and spent the day berating anyone who had the audacity to inquire as to the secret to a long life. Sadly Fred passed at age 86 and we are left with sweet memories of this titan of the squared circle. All hail the "Hollywood Fashion Plate" His legendary accomplishments in the ring included the infamous 1962 feud with Japanese wrestling icon Rikidozan. Employing his gimmick of filing his teeth and gnawing on the Japanese hero's forehead and drawing massive amounts of blood, legend has it that this sight gave many viewers heart attacks and some reportedly croaked on the spot.
Of equal note is his stellar recording career which produced the seminal LP King of Men in 1977. As noted in the liner notes, "Although this is his first disc, he is already far and away the best singer in the country and will beat the crap out of anyone who disagrees" boomp3.com US Male boomp3.com Pencil Neck Geek (NSFW)
By LEE HIGGINS - lhiggins@thestate.com In the scripted, fabulist world of wrestling, the Fabulous Moolah was all real. She wore bling before anyone called it that. She was a showman who clearly was all-lady. “I love old people and I love babies,” she told The State in 2005. “And if anybody else steps in my way, I’ll just kick (their butt). That’s the way it is.”
The Fabulous Moolah, the legendary female wrestler who called Columbia home and became the first female inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame, died Friday.
She was 84.
Born Mary Lillian Ellison in 1923, she was raised in the Tookiedoo neighborhood near Blythewood — the youngest and only girl of 13 children. Her mother died of cancer when Ellison was 8. Father-daughter time for Ellison meant attending weekly pro wrestling matches in Columbia. Ellison was trained in the ring in the 1940s by then-women’s champion Mildred Burke — the sport’s biggest star at the time, according to the WWE.
Moolah held the world’s championship for 28 years, from 1956 to 1984.
The next year, she won it again for two more years. In 1999, at age 76, she reclaimed the title for a final time. A legend passes.... the creator of the Backbreaker is gone.
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