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|  #1 Posted on 15.1.09 1504.55 | Instant Rating: 6.29 | I was on SI.com reading some articles in the MMA section and I saw a link to this article from the SI Vault on the sidebar. I figured at least a few people here would be interested in reading it. This was before I was aware of wrestling (or much else, I was barely 1 yr old!), so it's a bit surreal to read.
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119403/index.htm?eref=sircrc&eref=sisf
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| #2 Posted on 15.1.09 1553.49 | Instant Rating: 7.98 | I remember being pissed off because someone stole this entire article out of my high school's library. I ended up sitting and reading it at my local public library.
Around the same time, there was a LIFE Magazine article about pro wrestling that I desperately wanted because it had a cool picture of Paul Orndorff inside (he was lifting a bench with a bunch of kids on it). | hayden
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|  #3 Posted on 15.1.09 1649.13 | Instant Rating: 5.00 | Originally posted by the article from 1985
Hulkamania! Not noted for wrestling technique. "His entire repertoire," says one critic, "consists of the Eye of the Tiger, a shredding muscle shirt, a few minutes of inept brawling and the infamous leg-drop finish out of nowhere."
Bashing Hulk's wrestling skill is a decades-old tradition.
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| #4 Posted on 15.1.09 1730.59 | Instant Rating: 4.25 | Welcome home, men of the 2nd Bn, 127th Inf, 32d "Red Arrow" Brigade, WI Army Nat'l Guard! Good luck to those down south.
In his book, I remember Hogan saying that a lot of fans saved that SI issue, and he still signs those covers even today.
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| #5 Posted on 15.1.09 2228.31 | Instant Rating: 0.74 | Wow, Meltzer was quoted in there...I didn't know he was doing his thing already when he was just 24.
Some of the faux-slang writing was kind of hokey though... the continued "maahhvelous" Billy Crystal catchphrase, really?
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| #6 Posted on 16.1.09 0825.51 | Instant Rating: 3.68 | I actually have this magazine somewhere :)
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| #7 Posted on 16.1.09 1053.00 | Instant Rating: 4.40 | Originally posted by Spiraling_Shape
Wow, Meltzer was quoted in there...I didn't know he was doing his thing already when he was just 24.
Some of the faux-slang writing was kind of hokey though... the continued "maahhvelous" Billy Crystal catchphrase, really?
Here we are twenty years later, and sports writers still make the laziest possible mainstream references to popular culture that embarrassingly date themelves as soon as they're written, let alone in hindsight.
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| #8 Posted on 16.1.09 1854.47 | Instant Rating: 7.31 | Originally posted by Deputy Marshall
Originally posted by Spiraling_Shape
Wow, Meltzer was quoted in there...I didn't know he was doing his thing already when he was just 24.
Some of the faux-slang writing was kind of hokey though... the continued "maahhvelous" Billy Crystal catchphrase, really?
Here we are twenty years later, and sports writers still make the laziest possible mainstream references to popular culture that embarrassingly date themelves as soon as they're written, let alone in hindsight.
It's not just sports writers.
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