During his debut match, he was heard to remark to his opponent "Help me make it through the night".

kris kristofferson:

football star
summa cum laude grad
rhodes scholar
helicopter pilot
army ranger
offered professorship at west point
successful actor
successful singer
successful songwriter

so, yeah, the old man's pretty tough to live up to. why not try the WWE?

FlashHarry: kris kristofferson:

football star
summa cum laude grad
rhodes scholar
helicopter pilot
army ranger
offered professorship at west point
successful actor
successful singer
successful songwriter
Rubber Duck

so, yeah, the old man's pretty tough to live up to. why not try the WWE?

There... that's better.

Whistler's son,huh? Good for him.

I saw Convoy at a drive-in back in the day.

The Lone Talbot: 1. 6'2'' 230lbs is not a very big wrestler. At least not anything worthy of being called BEAST.
2, The article writer seems to think he will be on RAW or Smackdown soon. Someone doesn't understand how WWE's developmental system works.
3. I wish Krisofferson the best in his future endeavors.
4. Is the lack of streams going to kill the fWc?

Nope....the problem has been fixed.

Forgot_my_password_again: I have a few friends who are wrestling fans.

I will never get it. I've watched a few tines and the appeal makes absolutely no sense to me.

/yes, not liking wrestling does make me better than you

Honestly, if you check out the weekly WWE RAW threads here on FARK, most of the people who post in them admit that without the FARK threads and real time MSTing of the show, they wouldn't be watching.

/that's what you're missing by just watching with a couple friends... they probably don't know that WWE is for treating like a movie they show on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

The Lone Talbot: 1. 6'2'' 230lbs is not a very big wrestler. At least not anything worthy of being called BEAST.
2, The article writer seems to think he will be on RAW or Smackdown soon. Someone doesn't understand how WWE's developmental system works.
3. I wish Krisofferson the best in his future endeavors.


Nah, Gagne has a hard-on for Kristofferson... he liked what he saw even before he knew just who the kid was. I'm betting he'll make it up to one of the big shows within a year, make a big initial splash, get de-pushed and buried to see how he handles it, and they'll go from there.

As for the size... Well, many say Shawn Michaels was legitimately under 200 pounds during his original IC and World title runs, so size doesn't really matter as long as they use the guys correctly.

...and that's the major problem,.

REO-Weedwagon: Few years ago I got drunker'n hell with the guy who wrote the lyrics and performed the Convoy theme song. He was a local politician in the small town next to me. He's now an 85-year-old dude with some of the funniest f*cking stories you ever heard.

i always thought "C.W. McCall" was actually a couple of ad guys from omaha. one went on to create the appalling mannheim steamroller and become extremely rich. if you listen to "convoy" (and i do, frequently) it sounds very much like a commercial jingle from the 70s -- especially the backing vocals.

REO-Weedwagon: CSB time/

Few years ago I got drunker'n hell with the guy who wrote the lyrics and performed the Convoy theme song. He was a local politician in the small town next to me. He's now an 85-year-old dude with some of the funniest f*cking stories you ever heard.

William Dale Fries, Jr. (new window)

The Bunyip: Iceman208481: This should be on the Sports tab. Just saying.

Except it will air on SyFy. You can't explain that.

Yeah, but SyFy has no meaning. It's not like it's a Sci-Fi channel or anything.

In fact, going by what the network airs, SyFy is all about ghost hunters, hunter ghosts, 2 hours of wrestling a week, and shiatty movies the 6 hours that Ghost hunting hunter ghosts aren't on.

The Lone Talbot: FlashHarry: REO-Weedwagon: Few years ago I got drunker'n hell with the guy who wrote the lyrics and performed the Convoy theme song. He was a local politician in the small town next to me. He's now an 85-year-old dude with some of the funniest f*cking stories you ever heard.

i always thought "C.W. McCall" was actually a couple of ad guys from omaha. one went on to create the appalling mannheim steamroller and become extremely rich. if you listen to "convoy" (and i do, frequently) it sounds very much like a commercial jingle from the 70s -- especially the backing vocals.

"CW McCall" was Omaha ad-man William Fries. He released a few albums of trucker songs. Also a couple other songs, including ones about the Iran Hostage Crisis and George Brett's pine-tar incident. He later served as mayor in a town in Colorado.

I'm also pretty sure my dad and uncle both became truck drivers because of "Convoy" and the whole trucker/CB culture of the time.
My dad's CB handle was "9 Fingers." He also briefly was "Baby Huey" in the 70's.

My dad's handle was Night Owl.

Iceman208481: This should be on the Sports tab. Just saying.


A tightly scripted sitcom?

I am a huge Kris, fan. The man who wrote bobby mcgee and sunday morning coming down. Who stole an army helicopter to give his demo yo Johnny Cash. Pure rock n roll country outlaw. Who does not give a shiat.

He was in a bad movie in the 90s called knights. Love that movie.

Kris plays an old grizzled cyborg who gets chopped in half and at one point says "drag dem legs over here, dere combatible with my circitry"