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Cucch's Book Review: "Wrestling With the Devil"





Lex Luger enjoyed a long and highly decorated wrestling career. Almost from the minute he first stepped into the squared circle, he was pushed as a top of the card talent, and for good reason. Lex Luger had the look and athleticism to become potentially one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He had a very nice run, winning the WCW title three times. However, the lifestyle of wrestling soon caught up to Luger, and he experienced one of the most incredible falls from grace ever seen in wrestling. This book is the story of the depths Luger fell to and what he did to climb out of the abyss.


Lawrence Pfohl was the youngest of three children born to Roger and Marion Pfohl in 1958 in Buffalo, New York. His father was an incredible musician who taught himself to play nine instruments, more notably the piano, and his mother was an extremely intelligent scholar who received a Master's degree. Larry's parents were not what one would call fans of athletics, and so were dismayed when Larry shunned his parents wishes that he learn the piano in favor of pursuing sports. While Larry would one day, as most fans know, become a decorated football player who had a short career with both the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL and the Green Bay Packers of the NFL, football was actually Larry's least favorite sport. No, he instead was enamored with both track and field and basketball. He excelled at both sports, while also maintaining a 92 grade average through high school. Larry dreamed of one day playing for the NBA, but during his senior season, he came to a realization: At 6'4" and 225 pounds, he had been able to dominate the high school opposition as a power forward. To progress at that position in college or the pro's, you need to be about 6'9" of so, and Larry had finished his growth spurt.  So he turned his attention to football. In Buffalo around that time, the main draw of the local Bills franchise was a former USC running back named O.J. Simpson. While most kids in Buffalo idolized Simpson, Larry actually appreciated the unsung talents of the offensive linemen who blocked for Simpson, so he was determined to make the NFL as an offensive lineman.

Larry received several scholarships to Division 1 NCAA schools, but the two that stuck out were Penn State and the University of Miami. That Pfohl essentially only played his senior season in football (and did not know many of the fundamentals, instead relying on instinct and talent) and received looks from major college programs is a testament to the type of athlete he was. Joe Paterno, the once deity of football in Pennsylvania (since disgraced by the Jerry Sandusky scandal) actually visited Larry's house to make his pitch for him to join the Nittany Lions. Luger accepted, and was off to Happy Valley to play for the illustrious Joe Pa.

Larry was having success at Penn State, and had even met his first true love, Peggy, who would later become his wife. But during a practice his first season, his MCL was torn and he had to miss his first college season. Larry was so devastated that he stopped attending classes, opting instead to leave Happy Valley and transfer to the warmer weather of the University of Miami.

Now, I need to point this out: The University of Miami in 1979 was not the football factory it was to become under Jimmy Johnson in the 1980's. However, there was a relatively well known head coach there in the form of Lou Saban. Saban, no relation to current Alabama football coach Nick Saban, also had ties to Northwestern University, where he drew the attention of a student who was, in a few years, destined to take over the most storied franchise in sports. When Ohio native George Steinbrenner took over the Yankees in 1973, he brought Saban along with him, first as an advisor and eventually as General Manager of the team. George was a huge Big Ten football fan, so he brought football coach Saban with him to try to drill football discipline into his baseball organization.

Its one of the many reasons a good deal of Yankee fans hated King George.

Anyway, back to Larry. He had a golden opportunity at Miami. He was up to 255 pounds of muscle, and was running an absurd 4.6 40 yard dash. However, Miami is a pleasure palace with year round fun in the sun, and young Larry was soon up to his eyeballs in youthful indiscretions. To make a long story short, Larry fucked up one time to many, and was kicked off the football team. Devastated, he left the team and started working as a bouncer at a local club. He enjoyed the experience, and made some good money doing it. After every night shift, some members of a local, ahem, Italian fraternal organization befriended Larry and bought him breakfast every morning. As much fun as he was having, Larry still dreamt of playing pro football. So when an opportunity arose to play for the Montreal franchise of the Canadian football league, he jumped at it. He played a couple of seasons there, even appearing in Canada's equivalent of the Super Bowl, the Grey Cup, losing to Warren Moon and his Edmonton Eskimos.

Montreal released Larry when he was injured the following season, but told him they would quickly resign him once he healed. The CFL has a limit on how many Americans can be on a team, so this was just a deft roster move, with the joint understanding that Larry would be back. However, in what would soon become a trend, Larry decided to join the Green Bay Packers when they called for a tryout. He made the team, but was injured and never played a game for them. He was soon released and joined the fledgling USFL Memphis Showboats, but nothing was quite going the way Larry wanted it to. So he decided a career change was needed.

Larry's grandmother had watched wrestling regularly when he was a child, but he never really got into it. Yet for some reason, he decided to try to train to be a wrestler. Luger went down to the Tampa offices of Championship Wrestling from Florida. He was directed to Hiro Matsuda, and was soon being subjected to Matsuda's rigorous training. Lex was always a good athlete who pushed himself in everything he did, so he took to the training regimen of Hindu Squats and endless pushups like a duck to water. A short time after Halloween, the newly christened Lex Luger made his debut, and rocketed up the Florida card in no time, winning the Southern Heavyweight Championship from Florida booked Wahoo McDaniel. Lex, while still very green, was an instant sensation due to his look and explosive power. Soon, Florida promoters matched him up against visiting NWA Champion Ric Flair. Luger praises Flair for making him look like a million bucks, and also getting him signed to Jim Crockett promotions soon after, as the newest member of the Four Horsemen.

Here is where the book veers a little bit. Luger does describe his time as a Horseman, but he just kind of glosses over it. There is no mention of War Games or some of the bigger angles he was involved in. He does describe what life on the road was like with the supergroup, but that story has been told by countless others many times, so nothing new there. He skips over his semi-famous "I am an athlete" promo. He does mention the attack by the Horsemen on him. However, he skips a ridiculous amount of his career here. There is no mention of his 1988 series with Flair, aside from quick summations of it. He skips his tag team with Barry Windham and subsequent betrayal. He briefly mentions his match with Steamboat in 89. And from there, he jumps almost directly to Bash 91, where he wins the WCW title and turns heel for no good reason.

There is a notable exception through all this speeding through his career: Sting (who wrote the foreword). The first time Luger encountered Sting, he was curt and impolite, as he saw him as direct competition. However, they soon became very good friends, and he mentions the SuperBrawl match with the Steiners as a favorite. He mentions it was Sting who laid out the match where, instead of one of the babyface teams working heel, all the guys would just cycle through all their best spots. The result was a true classic, one that won a good deal of Match of the Year honors in 1991.

By the time 1991 was ending, Lex was getting burnt out and wanted out of WCW. They complied, and Luger dropped the title to Sting at SuperBrawl two in a lackluster match. Luger admits he was at fault in that match, as he showed up literally right before the match and had no time to discuss the match with Sting. He also admits he just wanted to get in, drop the title, and get out unharmed. Sting was not pleased with this, and it was a point of contention between the two for a while.

When Luger exited WCW, he had agreed that he would not compete for any other wrestling company, as he was leaving his contract prematurely. He instead joined Vince McMahon's World Bobybuilding Federation. WCW was not too thrilled with that. Lex insists he was not in the wrong here. WCW filed a suit against Luger for appearing on WWF programming. Lex says WCW stated that he had appeared at WrestleMania 8, and he insists he did not. If you have seen Mania 8, you know he did appear live via satellite to discuss the WBF. However, he never made an appearance on the soon to be ill fated WBF shows, due to a life experience that almost killed him.

In Summer of 1992, Lex decided to go for a joyride on his motorcycle. Just minutes away from his house, he collided with a car head on and was thrown approximately 150 feet, and his arm was nearly severed off. His local hospital was unsure how to care for the injury and were ready to amputate. But Luger had a savior that say in the form of his estranged friend Sting. Sting insisted Luger visit famous surgeon Dr. James Andrews. Andrews was able to put Luger's arm back together again, and by January of 1993, Lex was on to the next phase of his career.

With the WBF now nothing more than a study in bad decision making (Certainly not Vince's last), Luger redebuted in WWF at Royal Rumble 1993 as the Narcissist. That gimmick did not exactly set the world on fire. Lex's only real match of note from that period was with Mr. Perfect at WrestleMania 9. Hennig laid out the match before hand and was going to lead Lex through it, but as soon as they got into the ring, Luger says Hennig forgot the whole layout, and Lex called it on the fly. The Narcissist languished around the midcard for a few months, until something interesting happened.

Vince McMahon had turfed Hulk Hogan out of the promotion, and set out to make Luger his new All American babyface. Thus was born the Lex Express and the most ridiculous push in wrestling history. Luger says the plan was for him to eventually win the title at Mania X, but Vince changed his mind. Nothing more, nothing less.

There is a funny little story Luger relays about Bret Hart. He and Bret were actually fairly close outside the ring, but Luger admits that Bret was responsible for one of his many addictions: Starbucks Coffee. Once he discovered it, Luger and Bret became, as Luger calls it, "Coffee buddies."

Luger lost somewhat ignominiously at Mania X due to shenanigans from guest ref Mr. Perfect, and he sped to the midcard in a tag team with Davey Boy Smith. As the Summer of 1995 was winding down, Luger was having a chat with Sting, and he mentioned to him that he had been wrestling for WWF without a contract for about six months. Sting told him to call Eric Bischoff. Eric has said in his book he was not a fan of Luger, and offered him a low dollar contract, which Lex confirms here. He was told not to tell anyone, and Luger lived up to his promise. On the inaugural episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Lex Luger shocked the world and confronted Hulk Hogan. Luger had been working on a handshake deal with Vince, and he has not forgiven Luger to this day for his betrayal.

Luger rekindled his friendship with Sting, and had some of the most enjoyable years of his career, particularly in August of 1997 when he dethroned WCW Champion Hollywood Hulk Hogan via clean submission on en episode of Monday Nitro. It was a shock not only to see Hogan lose, but to do so on broadcast television. Hogan won the title back in short order a few days later at the Hog Wild PPV, but the Nitro title switch helped crystallize to fans that anything could happen on the upstart program, and made it must see television.

While Luger was enjoying perhaps the height of his professional career, his personal life was spiraling out of control.  He had used steroids in the 1980's in cycles, 12 weeks on, 12 weeks off. He says he quit using them when he joined WWF due to their drug program at the time, but when he rejoined WCW, he started using them again because the WCW drug policy was a joke. He says you could easily beat the test simply by dropping a bit of visine in the sample. However, by this point, Lex was also drinking and drugging heavily. He and Sting were hanging out after matches and ingesting many different painkillers. While Sting eventually stopped using in 1998, when he became born again, Lex continued on his path of self destruction. It caused a rift between the two friends, and it would be a while before they were back on good terms with eachother.

Luger was injured in 1998 when he tore his left biceps. He worked feverishly to get back, and returned mid way through 1999. However, at this point he was not only addicted to painkillers, he was believing his own hype. He admits that he turned into his WWF Narcissist gimmick, staring at his own sculpted body for hours on end. He was becoming a preening primadonna. He was also living it up outside of the ring, spending lavishly on shit he really did not need. He was ignoring his family, and he soon began an affair that would lead to tragedy down the road.

Miss Elizabeth was paired with Luger on screen after his return, and she had quite the thing for Luger. Soon, the two were an item outside the ring, trying to keep it on the down low. Soon after WCW went out of business, the two were essentially drug buddies, spending many nights drinking and doing pills, among other things. This of course lead to the death of Elizabeth in 2003 via accidental overdose. I will let you read the book and judge Luger for yourselves, but he does seem contrite.

Elizabeth's death was just the beginning of Luger's descent. He was still drinking and drugging, and constantly finding himself running afoul of the law. His many indiscretions eventually landed him multiple stints behind bars. After the first two, he would immediately get out, and his "friends" who would pick him up would have spiked Arnold Palmer and his pain pills waiting in the car from him as soon as he exited the prison gate. He tried rehab, but it never stuck. It took his third time going to prison, for failure to pay alimony, for Lex to finally get his shit straight.

The third time in prison, at the Cobb County Correctional facility, was where Luger began to climb out of the abyss. A prison chaplain invited him to speak to him in a private room. At this time, Luger was basically in solitary...no tv, no books, no nothing. The Chaplain lead him into a room, and let Lex watch an action movie on his lap top. Religion was never broached. When Lex was released, the chaplain asked if Lex would help him workout. What started as a marriage of convenience soon turned into a lasting friendship.

Luger was still not clean though. One night he was drinking and drugging by himself, and fell asleep. He had a vivid dream that he was drowning, only to see the faintest sense of light that he was fighting to reach. He woke up the next morning convinced that he had overdosed right there, and God had saved him. He soon reached out to the Chaplain, Pastor Steve, and he began attending masses. Luger felt something inside him, but was still confused. On day Pastor Steve told Lex that he needed to pray for forgiveness that may never come from people who he had wronged, but Jesus will always forgive him. Lex dropped to his knees and was overwrought with emotion. At that point he became born again. He continued attending masses and kicked drugs altogether. He rekindled his friendship with Sting, who was the man who baptized Luger. Luger even rekindled his friendship with another WCW wrestler who had been born again: Nikita Koloff. Luger decided he was going to become a vessel of the Lord, and help those in need realize that they too could overcome. He was going to start a newsletter that advocated healthy living for Christians. Things seemed on the up and up when suddenly, his body betrayed him.

Lex had always had some back issues, but one day he was experiencing some serious hip pain at a fitness competition. A woman there talked to Lex and said she noticed he was in great pain. She referred him to a doctor in Arizona, and when Lex was checked out, he was told he had basically no hips left, and would need a total hip replacement. Luger made the appointment to have everything done at once.

About a week prior to the surgery, against friends concerns, Luger decided to go to an autograph signing in San Francisco. During the flight, he was having some back discomfort, but thought nothing of it. When he arrived at his hotel, the pain was blinding, but he figured it was just sciatica, so he decided to rest and hope it felt better in the morning.

It didn't.

Lex woke up the next morning and could not move. He fell from his bed, and cried for help. By the grace of God, someone heard him, and soon an ambulance was on the scene, which transported Luger to Stanford University Medical Center. There, the doctors gave Lex a grave prognosis: His spinal cord had suffered serious damage due to a perfect storm of factors, and Lex Luger, the one time physical marvel that wowed wrestling crowds from coast to coast, was a quadriplegic.

This, however, was not the old Lex Luger who would have sunk to using drugs to numb whatever emotional distress he was feeling. This was a born again Lex. He rehabbed feverishly, and after a couple of years, was once again, miraculously, walking.

All in all, Luger's book is quite the case study. I know a lot of people will be turned off the amount of religious rhetoric Luger lays on in the final chapters. Some will not like that he glosses over large chunks of his in ring career. But the fact is, Lex comes across as honest, believable, and contrite. Lex admits how far he sunk, what a total degenerate he became. But it shows you that even someone who was as admittedly depraved as Luger is not immune to salvation and rebirth. It is an inspirational account, one I would highly recommend.

I hope everyone, be it a wrestler or from any other walk of life, can read this and realize: It is never too late to be saved from a life of addiction.

Comments

  1. Lou and Nick Saban are not related. That's a common myth.

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  2. Really? I defer to you, you are the football expert. But I do know Lou worked in the front office for the Yankees.

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  3. if it makes you feel better, I thought the same thing for years, and just learned the truth this year.

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  4. I stopped reading after your digression into Yankee history. Who cares?

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  5. He won the WCW title twice... just saying.

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  6. I know this is pedantic but it's one of my pet peeves: it's enamored of not enamored with.

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  7. My last wrestling book binge (10 Pounds of Gold, very good... The King of New Orleans (JYD), good to very good... The Last Outlaw (Stan Hansen), excellent, but others will disagree and have valid points.), I considered getting this one.


    This review still has me on the fence.

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  8. It was a couple of sentences, stop being such a vagina.

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  9. If I wanted a Yankees history lesson, I'd look for one.

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  10. Wow, I didn't realize he was walking again... awesome news.


    Speaking of quadriplegics, does anyone know what the deal with Droz is? I heard that on a random shoot interview he was seen moving his arms.

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  11. I never knew any of that shit happened to him. I saw him on a recent DVD (Punk?) and didn't recognize him and figured he had a stroke or something... don't know how I missed that.

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  12. I didn't realise The Narcissist was considered a failure. I was really into the character as a kid, how he'd pose in front of a mirror in the ring, classic.

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  13. Luger may be one of the biggest names that I've cared the least about.

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  14. I thought WCW did some interesting stuff with Luger when he was Sting's friend, yet still a heel. Kind of ahead of its time.

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  15. The character never really gained any steam. He debuted it at Rumble 93, and was more or less done with it by King of the Ring.

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  16. Yeah, I just looked that up. Its what the book said. With the way the title was hot shot at the end of the decade, I just figured it was right. Nope, you are correct. Twice.

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  17. I actually looked it up...some sights say they are no relation, some say they are distant cousins...yikes.

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  18. What is 10 Pounds of Gold about? Have heard of the others you listed, but not that one.

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  19. That era was...strange. It was wholly entertaining though. Luger was awesome as the disingenuous good guy best friend.

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  20. Lugers friendship with Sting made him a pretty great character. He was always self-absorbed but he still always needed to defend his buddy. Admirable in a way.

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  21. "Extremely intelligent scholar" is triple redundant.

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  22. A rather limited history of the NWA title belt that preceded the Big Gold Belt.


    The book highlights the belt itself, in all four "versions", the night the belt was presented for the first time (to Harley Race, in Houston, he promptly lost the belt that night to Jack Brisco.), and a short bio on each of the champions who wore that belt.


    There are lots of pictures throughout the book, including a few detailing the damage the belt's sustained over the years, but there's also enough meat in the text to make it a good read.


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    (One little SPOILER ALERT! from the book:


    The belt has a small etching in it, right above the two wrestlers on the right side. If the light is not JUST right, the etching cannot be seen. What is it? KVE, for Kerry Von Erich. He scratched it in during his short reign with the belt. It wasn't even noticed for many years afterward, allegedly.)

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  23. No, it's not. "Extremely" is an adverb used for emphasis and a scholar can be stupid. I've met some. Anyone can get into a PHD program and hang around until they graduate.

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  24. Wrestlin' with the deviiiiiil...
    Lemme tell y'all 'bout it!

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  25. If Hogan wasn't there, it would have played out better.

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  26. My biggest pet peeve are people that correct grammar and use words like "pedantic" to try and sound smart.

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  27. My biggest pet peeve are people who criticize others for trying to correct grammar. Heaven for fucking bid someone uses big and/or correct words on the internet.

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  28. I remember seeing Luger wrestle at a local WCW house show. He hadn't been on TV for quite a while, so the surprise factor combined with him being billed from Chicago (I lived in IL) led to him getting the biggest pop of the night. I'll never forget that he looked like he literally just woke up to wrestle this match, and was legitimately surprised by the reaction.



    Unfortunately, he wasn't supposed to be the face; he was wrestling General Rection.



    They worked the match and Rection just got booed out of the building, especially when he won. To Luger's credit, he didn't bask in the glory, but instead got back in the ring with Rection, raised his hand, and applauded for him after the match.

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  29. it was interesting. It is a dynamic we saw with Diesel and HBK to a degree and definitely with Lawler and JR.

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  30. Youre talking to someone with a bachelor's and 6 years of medical school. I dont go around the blog correcting people's usage of anatomy. "Well its a pet peeve of mine when people say thigh, the correct terminology is femur for the bone and, ventrogluteal, quadriceps, and vastus lateralis for the muscles."

    Why dont I do this? I dont need to correct others to make myself feel smart. We all knew what he meant.

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  31. Apparently all that education didn't teach you to use an apostrophe on contractions, zing! I'm kidding, I was trying to be an asshole there.


    Normally I wouldn't make a grammar correction (because I'm actually horrible with grammar) but the enamored of/enamored with one is really common and really just like nails on a chalkboard for me.

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  32. Was Luger always billed from Chicago? I remember being surprised when I found out he was from Buffalo because why bill him from Chicago if he was?

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  33. Criticizing grammar is the lowest form of trolling. It's funny when cm punk does it. Its beyond lame when others copy his bit.

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  34. I'm surprised you didn't mention the Jimmy Johnson thing. I dunno I guess Howard Schnellenberger can go fuck himself, what did he ever do?

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  35. I always thought Lex got a bit screwed over by the Sting/Hogan feud. I'd rank Luger winning the title in Detroit as one of the loudest pops I've ever heard.

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  36. Oh please, we all know what Dougie does is the lowest form of trolling. I wasn't trolling, it's a common mistake. I'm actually MORE surprised when I hear someone use it correctly.

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  37. You could get your mom to turn the pages for you.

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  38. She's got no hands, dumbshit.

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  39. Somewhere between love and madness.....lies obsession.

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  40. This Dougie Douche a real loser eh?

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  41. Ha. Good response. I know you're kidding about the apostrophe but that's exactly why I hate people who correct grammar... they're not being altruistic (not saying you specifically) and trying to help others better their writing, they're just trying to look smarter then others by pointing out something the other person typically knows but is either to lazy to correct or was using autospelling. If we know their intention, let it go.

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  42. Was this meant for me?

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  43. For sure. They could easily have done a proper Luger reign in '97, even if he ends up dropping the belt back to Hogan for the Sting match at Starrcade. Luger defending against Hall, Nash, Savage for a few PPVs would have been more interesting than Hogan not defending the title at all for stretches

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  44. I think they should have pushed Luger to the moon in '93...but as a heel. If Bret just retains at Wrestlemania instead of the Hogan/Yoko mess, you can have Lex win the inaugural KOTR PPV and build toward a "next generation" kind of deal at SummerSlam '93. Narcissist Lex Luger could have worked, especially with Heenan by his side.

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  45. I'm pretty sure he was, and no idea why.

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  46. In the book, the Florida bookers said no one knew where Buffalo was, so they gave him a choice of Chicago or Detroit.

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  47. That seems like such a strange reason considering that both the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Miami Dolphins (both being territories that FCW used to hit) played the Bills - with the Dolphins playing them regularly for decades.

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  48. The nature of wrestling. Remember 2004...Jericho of Winnipeg all of a sudden was from Manahasset New York. Benoit of Edmonton was, all of a sudden, from Atlanta.

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  49. Totally agree with this. He's trying hard to give himself a sense of superiority by trying to sound 'smart'. Its try hard and shows insecurity.

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  50. Please stop faking annoyance as an excuse for you to correct others so you can feel smart and good about yourself. You have self esteem issues if you must resort to doing this.

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  51. Correcting grammar isn't how I make myself feel smart or superior. But your projection is certainly pretty obvious.

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  52. Please explain my 'projection' genius. Your grammar correcting obviously isn't to be altruistic. It's a tactic genetically inferior people use (usually liberals) to feel better about themselves. A defense mechanism actually.

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  53. People correcting your grammar and spelling aren't trying to make you feel bad about yourself or themselves feel better. In this case it was a common mistake that I felt like correcting. I honestly don't have the time or the energy to correct whatever strawman you have built up about liberals. You seem to be a living example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

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  54. And I'm telling you the reason why you 'felt' like it. You don't have the time or energy to type a sentence or 2 explaining something yet you readily reply with a paragraph making sure to slip in theories like strawman and DKE trying to make yourself sound smart. Again you further confirm my point about the genetically inferior people trying to find a way to convince themselves and others they have more value through 'intelligence' when they are lacking value in evolutionary terms. It is a defense mechanism to protect oneself from feeling bad about this reality.

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  55. Okay, fine. You're what, seventeen? You read Ayn Rand and listen to Rush Limbaugh, we're all very impressed. Call me when you have some life experience to back it up.

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  56. by your accusations you are not so subtly admitting you're a liberal and supporting my point. What makes me 17? the 1996? And a typical liberal tactic is to ignore or not advance the dialogue by dismissing the point in some form of "faux news" or rush comment (as you did here) or just calling the other person names or troll (which you havent done yet). BTW what are your real life experiences that make you on such a higher level?

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  57. If I'm going to debate someone I'm not going to fall back on calling names or trolling. I have the same amount of apathy for Fox News that I do for MSNBC or CNN. It's a different toilet with the same contents. Yes, I was basing the age on the 1996 (which you're not dismissing).


    Life experience? College, loans, paying off those loans, budgeting, working, paying taxes, having a job. Things that a 17 year old doesn't know or understand.

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  58. Also, genetically inferior is a fucking hilarious term. I can't decide if you sound more like Brucie from GTA 4 or the Ultimate Warrior.

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  59. Sounds like the most frustrating kind of autobiography: the subject focuses on what is important to him now (being born again), not on what his audience cares about (his wrestling career).

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