Greetings From Allentown

WrestleMania III is on the horizon in this look at WWF Superstars of Wrestling from February 21, 1987!

- The Honky Tonk Man appears on Jake Roberts’ Snake Pit and everyone’s fate changes forever

- The first Hart Foundation tag title defense on TV against the babyface Islanders

- Roddy Piper confirms the rumors of his pending retirement

- Extending the wrestling concept of “open contracts” the another sport

- Billy Jack Haynes as a dear friend of Hulk Hogan

- The forgotten 1987 WWF heel run of Salvatore Bellomo

- Audio comparison of the first Honky Tonk Man theme and an early Elvis Presley recording

- How important is Savage-Steamboat to the WM3 legacy?

- The Can-Am Connection’s busy night in the Meadowlands

Plus:

- Attending a Chaotic Wrestling show: returning gimmicks, homage to Goodfellas, and Italian dining

- Elizabeth cutting loose in an LJN figures commercial

- Hulk vs Andre predictions foreshadows the coming fissure in a WWF tag team

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL Week 10 (and one NCAA game)!

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Barely under the wire for Halloween is the final show before WCW’s 1991 Halloween Havoc, the October 27, 1991 edition of WCW Main Event!

- WCW’s bad luck with the World Series on that date

- Imagining a world where Kevin Nash stays as Oz and works Japan exclusively

- Madusa in a rare WCW women’s match, and is extremely pissed off for some reason

- Another extended appreciation for the great Johnny B. Badd

- Van Hammer’s 1991 push: a tribute to a Navy man or just annoying?

- The positive social implications of the Ron Simmons push

- Football as a driving force in the Luger/Simmons battle

- The big reason to never begrudge Mick Foley’s comebacks

Plus:

- Rebooting the Golden Girls with Missy Hyatt and Madusa

- Scenes from a Long Island baptism

- Memories of Jim Ross’ old WSB radio show

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 9!

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It’s time to check in with Cowboy Bill Watts for some Mid-South Wrestling from June 24, 1982!

- Ted DiBiase takes a necessary step in his career facing Junkyard Dog in one of the greatest storylines ever

- The wonderful misspelling of Killer Khan’s name

- Andre the Giant’s common interests with the late singer Amy Winehouse

- Wondering how Dr. Death Steve Williams didn’t break any stupid NCAA rules by being a pro wrestler

- The One Man Gang looking far more like Akeem

- Buck Robley, lengthy names, and Libya

- Seeing Big John Studd in a non-WWF setting

- The musings of Bill Watts: talking about his kids and crapping on Georgia

Plus:

- Advice on how to approach yard work

- Freddie Blassie’s older vocabulary

- Prince William vs Prince Harry, then and now

- Similarities between DiBiase/JYD and Bruno/Larry

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 8!

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We travel the road to the first King of the Ring PPV with a look at WWF Mania from May 8, 1993!

- Todd Pettengill brings his worst qualities to the table

- Tatanka saves Sherri from Bam Bam and gets a haircut for his trouble

- How Jim Duggan’s ’87 firing impacted Shawn Michaels

- The similarities between the Undertaker character and Star Wars

- Bob Backlund meets Lex Luger in a battle of former world champions

- A bizarre introduction from the Smoking Gunns

- Kamala goes it alone without Reverend Slick

- Mr. Perfect and Doink begin an unlikely series

Plus:

- Vince McMahon’s mid 90s calls of near falls

- Why Fred Savage is obviously superior to his brother Ben

- Pondering a change in the opening segment of the podcast

- A close call for the Phoenix Suns

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 7!

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Sting joins forces with fellow Horsemen Ric Flair and Arn Anderson for a red hot six man tag on the January 26, 1990 edition of NWA Power(rrrrrrrrrrrrr) Hour

- The eastern Tennessee crowd goes crazy for the short-lived incarnation of the Four Horsemen

- Jim Cornette cracks on the taping site, which would change the course of wrestling history

- Buzz Sawyer breaks the powerslam scale

- Jim Cornette pitches an angle for Ranger Ross, while Jim Ross picks on the Italian Stallion

- Terry Funk offers Sting some advice

- Diminishing returns from the Samoan Savage

- The mostly forgotten rap for WrestleWar ‘90

- Gordon Solie takes a dump on the Memphis territory

Plus:

- Weddings with accidental visits from mariachis

- The story of a man named Savage (not Randy)

- How the booking of Bud Bowls are kind of like recent vintage WWE

- Reflecting on a big week in current wrestling

- Positing an idea for a new Funk’s Grill set

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 6!

- The return of YouTube Comment Theater!

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With the wrestling world changing this week, the show goes back 35 years to the January 28, 1984 edition of WWF Championship Wrestling as a new world champion is crowned!

- Hulk Hogan’s title win over the Iron Sheik marks the start of a new era

- Sheiky deals with an untimely boner

- Paul Orndorff goes to a forbidden place talking about Hulk Hogan

- Roddy Piper launches Piper’s Pit at the expense of Victory Corner

- How The Hammer overlapped with his time in JCP

- How are telegrams being sent to the announcer’s desk in Allentown?

- Mr. Fuji’s refusal to tag with a different partner on this set of tapings

- Who was the best babyface IC champion of the 1980s?

- Tony Atlas vows to get “kinky”

- Just how boring can B. Brian Blair be?

Plus:

- A recap of a week in Alaska

- The importance of local promos

- Enjoying how Roddy Piper says the name “Tony Atlas”

- Hulk Hogan’s surprising tag team partner in New Japan from early ‘84

- Speculating on a movie career for Robert DeBord

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for NFL week 5!

- Looking at some of the Super Bowl XVIII commercials from January 1984

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In this Greetings From Allentown special, the Arsenio Hall Show takes center stage with a look at three appearances by WWF wrestlers on the show!

- WWF Champion Randy “Macho Man” Savage appears in March 1989 to promote WrestleMania V and has entertaining interplay with the audience and a fellow guest

- Bad News Brown mixes it up with Arsenio in the summer of 1990 on topics like food, his attire, and the feud with Jake “The Snake” Roberts

- Hulk Hogan comes on the show to try and spin on the steroid scandals starting to engulf him and the WWF in the summer of 1991….with poor results

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Bask in the afterglow of the 1988 Survivor Series with a look at the November 26, 1988 edition of the WWF Superstars of Wrestling!

- Jack Tunney gets some Bad News on the Brother Love Show

- What is the nature of these “favors” Bad News is saying Elizabeth did?

- Why discussion of the Powers of Pain/Demolition/Mr. Fuji imbroglio from Survivor Series was vague, and thoughts of the execution of the double turn

- Is Bobby Heenan and/or Ted DiBiase guilty of human trafficking with regard to Hercules?

- Pleading for restoration of the original Rick Rude theme

- The apparently aborted feud between the Brain Busters and Young Stallions

- What else could be behind the Hart Foundation-Rougeaus feud?

- The eternal debate of The Big Bossman vs The Big Boss Man

Plus:

- An oddity of the presentation of Superstars from this particular taping

- Jesse takes a shot at the local Major League Baseball team, with cause

- A stunning conclusion to your faithful host’s job search

- Vinnie Vegas Corner for week 3 of the NFL!

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The Adams Division Podcast returns with part two discussing favorite single season sports teams! Steve Bennett (The Sports-Casters) and Peter Winson (Greetings From Allentown) discuss their 5 favorite single season sports teams of all time! Included are teams that won it all, ones that came agonizingly close, super teams, and ones that were intensely personal to Steve or Peter! As a bonus, Steve and Peter reveal their most HATED single season team of all time as well!

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The Adams Division Podcast returns with part two discussing favorite single season sports teams! Steve Bennett (The Sports-Casters) and Peter Winson (Greetings From Allentown) discuss their 5 favorite single season sports teams of all time! Included are teams that won it all, ones that came agonizingly close, super teams, and ones that were intensely personal to Steve or Peter! As a bonus, Steve and Peter reveal their most HATED single season team of all time as well!

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