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Never meet your heroes - former hulkamaniac
Same here. I should have paid more attention to Andre.
I never watched wrestling, but Andre seemed like a nice guy when I heard about him on the vince mcmahon behind the bastards. Hulk sounded like he sucked.
Andre the Giant was great in The Princess Bride.
Hulk Hogan sucked in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
My dad used to run into him regularly when he worked as airport security in the 70s. He was a fantastic kind man with an incredible sense of humor. My dad had lots of good stories about him that he used to tell me about. So, another data point to back up your thinking.
Andre was a good guy. Shame about Hulk.
I've never been a fan of wrestling but I loved Andre. From everything I've seen and heard, he was the nicest guy you could hope to meet. There are some great stories about him out there too. There's video of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a time when he and Andre were arguing over who would pay the check at a restaurant and Andre literally picked Arnold up and put him on a piece of furniture. And another similar occasion with Andre and Wilt Chamberlain. The Cary Elwes book, As You Wish, about the making of The Princess Bride has a lot of stories about Andre from the cast too. It's well worth the read if you're a fan of the movie.
I was never much of a Hulkamanic, but I was a huge fan of the Ultimate Warrior who turned out to be a huge decroded piece of crap too. My all time favorite though was always Rowdy Roddy, and my second favorite was Da Maniac, but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.
"Aw, you got kids, Maniac?"
"Nah...not anymore..."
Uhh... what?
Is there any context to this? I'm genuinely curious.
Me and some friends were looking for a way to give back to the troops. So we decided to do a big wrestling thing. We got a hold of a local legend in the wrestling scene named Da Maniac. We were getting all the details ironed out for the show and he kept calling me the N-word. He also started to autograph parking tickets and tried giving them to us, plus it looked like he was living in his station wagon. He ended up getting arrested right before the show, so we had to do our own thing. We tried this whole eagle/bird of prey tag team thing. But I think we came off more like pigeons than as eagles. But we got another friend from school to wrestle against us. He showed up in this racist Arab costume and called himself the tali-bum (he was homeless at the time).
Thank you for the context, though coming back to this, I got no closure on the acorns. What was that not about?
The closure is this is the plot of one of the episodes of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.