CRANKY OLD FART'S
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• The world's oldest known animation
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⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️
Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that's made me smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
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Terry Funk, a wrestler whose obit you carry in the above post, has a surviving brother, Dory Funk Jr, who wrestled as a masked bad guy called "The Outlaw" on Northwest Championship Wrestling on KIRO 7 TV in the 1960s hosted by Ron Forsell. Even if my Mom and Dad were going out on Saturday night, Dad and I would watch NCW from 6:30 to 7:30 and always boo The Outlaw because the bastard cheated. He'd conceal blinding dust and heavy objects in his trunks and mask and didn't hesitate to use them. My parents were square dancers and Mom would yell at dad as we emulated the onscreen action, "Tom, you'll get your western shirt all dirty wrestling like that. We had cats and dogs, so Mom wasn't wrong.
ReplyDeleteI only knew that the Outlaw was Dory Funk Jr because my friend Mark was watching a Saturday night exhibition that I unaccountably missed at which The Outlaw was unmasked and revealed to be somebody we'd never heard of. I don't know what we were expecting. We kept trying to guess who The Outlaw was, but it was obviously another wrestler. It wouldn't be the Mayor or a folksinger we followed. So, The Outlaw turned out to be Dory Funk Jr when we were blissfully unaware that there was a Dory Funk Sr or a Brother Terry Funk. Now Terry is gone, but Dory Jr is looking pretty good for 82.
I can't describe the rush of emotion I just had writing about Dad and me watching Northwest Championship Wrestling.
John
Some of the endorphins came through. :)
DeleteI watched wrestling on TV a lot when I was a kid, always I think knowing it wasn't 'real' really, but very much respecting the work and athleticism that went into it. It's not at all 'fake' like a fist fight on some TV show.
I knew a guy who went into pro wrestling, and (to my knowledge) never got out of the rinky-dink local rings, but we worked at the same restaurant and he would come in on Mondays barely able to walk.
I wonder what ever happened to that guy...