After a six month hiatus, The Adams Division podcast is back! Steve Bennett (The Sports-Casters) and Peter Winson (Greetings From Allentown) reunite to discuss their 10 favorite single season sports teams of all time! Part one will cover numbers 6-10 on their respective lists. Included are teams that won it all, lost in heartbreaking fashion, and the friends that were made along the way!

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It ain’t Allentown, but Hamburg, Pennsylvania will have to do as this week features a look at WWF All Star Wrestling from May 17, 1980!

- Bob Backlund vs El Olympico in a bizarre “exhibition of wrestling holds” as VINCE MCMAHON delights in scientific wrestling

- The future problem Larry Z would have coming out of the Bruno feud

- Ken Patera as a God among men in 1980 even beyond the WWF

- Hulk Hogan being better in ’80 than remembered even as the promotion would prefer people forget his main feud that year

- Lots of Bruno Sammartino commentary: on Mexican wrestling, arrogant heels, fat people, Larry Z and more!

- Tor Kamata and his comical real name

- Steve King and the same name game

- 1980 Wrestler kneepad watch

Plus:

- One wiseacre in Hamburg has some advice for Backlund and Olympico

- Autograph seekers at the TV tapings and their fascination with job guys

- Sitcoms that did exactly 117 episodes

- Hulk Hogan: golfer?

- Sports moments of 2017: A first in Major League Baseball, 10 home runs in one game, and an obsession with the final play of regulation from Super Bowl 51

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For episode 116 it is back to Jim Crockett Promotions for a look at how “hot” the territory was for NWA Pro from February 21, 1987!

- How literally everybody won because Jim Cornette threw a fireball at Ronnie Garvin

- Jimmy Garvin’s face turn being perfectly timed and executed

- The Midnight Express as a championship hockey team

- Dick Murdoch colludes with the Russians

- Johnny Weaver waxes incoherent on commentary, while Nikita Koloff is somehow eloquent

- The Horsemen come up with funny things to call their “associate” Lex Luger

- JCP’s attempt to run shows in Canada in February 1987

Plus:

- Comparing and contrasting the crowd at a Judas Priest concert in 2019 with that of a wrestling show

- The importance of local promos

- How they covered the Cornette/Garvin angle and the old Saturday Night Live skit it brings to mind

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

- Sports moments of 2016: Britton never gets in the game, a Korean folk hero, the Cubbies as the anti-Orioles, an obese man hits a home run, and the Boston Bruins blow it against Ottawa

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In the 2nd show of the “Beer-treon” series, GFA goes back to 1986 for a look at the WWF D-Show Superstars of Wrestling from May 31!

- Spring 1986 WWF TV: Experimenting by throwing crap at walls

- Paul Christy is out of his mind on TNT: a complete breakdown in more ways than one

- The Rotunda/Spivey U.S. Express: the magic is lost with a new “Aunt Viv”

- Judy Martin: way ahead of her time

- Discovering teased angles in watching classic weekly TV

- Coming up with more dream matches for Ricky Steamboat

- The differences in the early version of Hercules

- Harley Race’s 1st match in his WWF run is a bizarre duel with SD Jones

Plus:

- Original 1986 commercials: Stetson cologne can get you laid?, Price is Right night edition, amusement parks, WWF thumb wrestlers, amusement parks, and more!

- Speculating on Bruce Springsteen’s wrestling preferences

- Mean Gene helps himself to potato chips

- What is going on with Magnificent Muraco’s voice?

- Sports moments of 2015: A blunder costs the alma mater, a nutty 7th inning north of the border, the best Super Bowl of all time, a cheap ass slide, and a crazy 2nd inning north of the border!

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In a test of the human spirit, this week’s episode features a look at AWA TV from January 6, 1990!

- A mild defense of the Team Challenge Series concept from the perspective of a 10 year old, and specific circumstances where it might have worked

- AWA play by play man Ralph Sturgis: From “Press Your Luck” to the Stanley Cup

- Waiting in vain for Kokina Maximus, the proto-Yokozuna

- The peculiar post-wrestling political career of Johnnie Stewart

- On an all new “According To Larry”, protagonist Larry Zbyszko decries the destruction of national forests

- The AWA’s spin on the “crooked referee” angle

- Get fired up for charismatic babyface Masa Saito!

Plus:

- Proposing a theme song for Yukon John Nord

- The motto of the AWA locker room when things got bad

- Retroactively deciding on a “comparable substitute”

- Internet browser issues and smoking a pork shoulder

- Sports moments of 2014: A Cup winning OT goal, the Patriots flop in KC, Peyton in the Super Bowl, and the greatest non-Ripken moment in Camden Yards history, and winning big money on the Belmont!

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Settle in for the coronation of a new Macho King as we look at WWF Superstars of Wrestling from September 30, 1989!

- A complete breakdown of everything that went on that the coronation ceremony for the Macho King and Queen Sherri

- Dusty Rhodes has a new look for the Battle of the Dustys

- The greatness of the Roddy Piper/Rick Rude feud playing out on Prime Time Wrestling

- Why Boris Zhukov was paired with Jimmy Snuka for multiple TV matches

- Comparing the “team hug” of the Rougeau Brothers with the Midnight Express

- Looking out for language in Hulk Hogan’s promo

- Defining what Bad News Brown means by the term “beer-bellied sharecropper”

- Vince McMahon puts over the sights of Portland, Maine

Plus:

- A 40th birthday celebration and lessons on the danger of special edibles

- More evidence of the close friendship of Randy Savage and Ted DiBiase in kayfabe

- Promos for the September 30, 1989 Madison Square Garden show

- Brother Love fails his audience by using the wrong name for his guest

- The last great Honky Tonk Man moment in the WWF

- Choosing Sega Genesis over Super Nintendo

- Sports moments of 2013: a game 7 comeback for the ages, a bad way to start an NFL season, the Ray Allen-Kevin Garnett imbroglio, a walkoff no-hitter, losing the Stanley Cup, and the week of the Boston Marathon bombing

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It’s back to look at the leadup to Starrcade ’85 with a look at NWA Worldwide from October 26, 1985!

- Magnum TA gets inappropriate and channels his inner Joe Namath with Baby Doll

- Pondering the notion of Arn Anderson as President of the United States

- Trying to survive another Superstar Billy Graham match

- With Dusty Rhodes at the doctor, a look at the real life reviews for that physician

- Tales of a man named Stoney

- A comparison of two styles of squash matches

- Jimmy Valiant and Froot Loops

- The Rock and Roll Express face their inferior mirror heel version

- A complaint about an odd example of show layout

Plus:

- A jobber name leads to a recollection of the mixed fates of the Singing Senators

- Checking again on the promo time ratio between Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson

- Crazy hot crowds for Jim Crockett Promotions

- Thoughts about the protocol behind buying allergy medication and beer taproom stool etiquette

- Sports moments of 2012: becoming an Orioles fan, a game 7 OT goal that was BS, boners in sports, butt fumbles, and more!

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Put on my blue suede shoes because we are walking in Memphis this week for some CWA Wrestling action from July 14, 1984!

- The Macho Man makes history by piledriving Ricky Morton through a table at the Mid-South Coliseum

- Lanny Poffo at his finest, and regales the audience with sound advice

- The Memphis SuperFriends of Lawler and the Fabulous Ones join forces for a six man tag

- Homoeroticism and unintentional comedy of the New Generation’s vignette

- Tojo Yamamoto returns to Memphis: You understand what I mean?

- Tommy Rich is back and lets the ladies know he is open for business

- Great Itos in history: Masao, Lance, and Midori

- The origin of "Manias"

Plus:

- Encountering a U.S. Express fan at Fenway Park on a wonderful Saturday afternoon

- Kicking off a different kind of podcast support program: Beertreon!

- A theory of why the Memphis Grizzlies kept that name after moving from Vancouver

- Differences in Rick Rude’s Memphis moustache from the one in WWF and WCW

- Sports moments of 2011: feeling bad for Nellie Cruz, the Red Sox collapse, the Bruins triumph,

Dirk Nowitzki, an incredible Datsyuk goal, and giving credit to a loathsome Vancouver Canuck!

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In the wake of WrestleMania 35, we go back 28 years to the aftermath of the uber-patriotic WrestleMania 7 with a look at WWF Wrestling Challenge from March 31, 1991!

- Recaps of WrestleMania 7 including Sgt. Slaughter getting his heat back in the most literal way possible

- Explaining the new DiBiase/Sherri team to those in the audience at the taping prior to WM7 and how Randy Savage is tied in

- Introducing Col. Mustafa with a nod to his prior history and pondering the reasons why he would be signed

- Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart joins the commentary team and tries to fit in with the Gorilla/Brain dynamic

- The Big Bossman needs some shirts that fit his skinnier frame

- Mr. Perfect and Bobby Heenan use scatological humor in a promo

- Thoughts on the goofiness of the Warlord leads to a story of why Peter started drinking hot coffee

- The interesting matches on the taping in Biloxi, Mississippi

Plus:

- The meaning behind Gorilla Monsoon calling the women around Bobby Heenan “barracudas”

- Weird pronunciations by guest ring announcers

- The real reason why Vince McMahon made Mustafa Ali drop his first name

- Devaluing the gutwrench suplex one match at a time

- Sports moments of 2010: making excuses for a Bruins collapse, a Peyton Manning pick-6, why curling is a great sport, World Cup in South Africa, a no hitter clears up some confusion, and more!

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

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On the road back from WrestleMania 35 in New Jersey, Peter recaps the weekend.

Included:

- "The Bret Hart of drivers"

- Trials and tribulations of trying to get a coffee in MetLife Stadium

- Why WrestleMania weekend is a perfect place for everyone that is there

- Meeting dozens of people for the first time

- Reading the room at karaoke

- Advice on how far to take things with alcohol at a tailgate

- Public transit and the "bus ride from hell"