Forget the Verizon “can you hear me now” guy. Don’t worry about dropping a pin for Sprint. And I’m sorry, pink T-Mobile girl, no matter how hot you are, you’re not the most memorable cell phone salesperson. That honor would have to go to a Canadian pitchman by the name of El Tabador. El Tabador…
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Football and Faust
If ever I to the moment shall say: Beautiful moment, do not pass away! Then you may forge your chains to bind me, Then I will put my life behind me, Then let them hear my death-knell toll, Then from your labors you’ll be free, The clock may stop, the clock-hands fall, And time come…
Read MoreFly the flags at half-staff in Pawhuska, Oklahoma… Chief Jay Strongbow passed away.
I just received word that a guy named Joe Scarpa died. Joe Scarpa I never knew. But I did know who Joe Scarpa was. Joe Scarpa played the role of professional wrestler Chief Jay Strongbow, a full-blooded Native American from Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Strongbow was one of the top “babyfaces” (good guys) in what was then…
Read MoreRest in peace, “Macho Man” Randy Savage
I grew up watching professional wrestling. My heroes were Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund, Chief Jay Strongbow and Haystacks Calhoun. These were the larger-than-life heroes who battled the evil Stan “The Man” Stasiak, Professor Toru Tanaka, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine and Bulldog Brower. My earliest exposure to professional wrestling was as a kid, watching the…
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Chuck The Writer 