fannypacks...

[repomanfan]

why are they popular among pro wrestlers, and more importantly, how come some wrestlers still wear em. talk a about wrestlecrap wrestling accessory.

[bonedaddycool]

I think because most of them wear tight pants and have no room in their pockets....
Just a silly guess

[repomanfan]

tight pants and fanny packs(bad combination).

[Cap'n Crud]

My guess is because you can wear them with your tights since tights usually don't have pockets. Comes in handy when you're at the concession stand. For some odd reason not very many venues like VFW halls or Elk's lodges run tabs.

[CaptainFall]

I remember a few years ago when Paul Bearer used to post on here and he got very angry when people mocked the fact wrestlers wear fannypacks (or bumbags as I call them). I think he said it's because they travel so much they need their important stuff close by. Either way it seemed a strange thing for him to get upset about.

[Back to being Cenanuff]

It's a tribute to Ahmed Johnson.

[repomanfan]

i was watching hogan knows best last night, and harry smith(davey boy's kid) was sporting a fanny pack. the guy is twenty years old....what a dork.

[Max]

haha Brooke made fun of him for it, too.

[Jay Peas 42]

Wrestlers are always on the move, either to the gym, the hotel, the airport, the arena. They are also changing their clothing. Fanny packs provide a great way to keep all of your stuff in one place regardless of where you go or what you are wearing. You don't have to empty your pockets. And they aren't really concerned about someone taking them, since you would have to be insane to try to pickpocket a large and fit man in an entourage.

[repomanfan]

jaypeas42 said:

Wrestlers are always on the move, either to the gym, the hotel, the airport, the arena. They are also changing their clothing. Fanny packs provide a great way to keep all of your stuff in one place regardless of where you go or what you are wearing. You don't have to empty your pockets. And they aren't really concerned about someone taking them, since you would have to be insane to try to pickpocket a large and fit man in an entourage.

nobody and i mean nobody other then pro wrestlers and maybe bodybuilders still wear those things(i used to have one in the early 90s). i wear one of those small one strap backpacks when im going out(if i have a few things to take). there stylish and i dont look like im stuck in 1991.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

jaypeas42 said:

Wrestlers are always on the move, either to the gym, the hotel, the airport, the arena. They are also changing their clothing. Fanny packs provide a great way to keep all of your stuff in one place regardless of where you go or what you are wearing. You don't have to empty your pockets. And they aren't really concerned about someone taking them, since you would have to be insane to try to pickpocket a large and fit man in an entourage.

They travel a lot.

The most important and valuable things are in those fanny packs... that way they don't lose them.

A lot of wrestlers also use haliburton suitcases to carry their larger stuff as well.

[thesam07]

Here's a link to the "Fannypack/Zubaz Memorial" I started.

officialfan.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wrestling&action=display&thread=1199958926

p.s. Fannypacks are awesome.

[Dolph Zalgo]

repomanfan said:

nobody and i mean nobody other then pro wrestlers and maybe bodybuilders still wear those things(i used to have one in the early 90s). i wear one of those small one strap backpacks when im going out(if i have a few things to take). there stylish and i dont look like im stuck in 1991.

Well, I'm not a wrestler and I wouldn't consider myself a bodybuilder.
However, I still have a fannypack and the only reason I don't wear it anymore is because I broke it last summer.

They can be really practical, since you can have many things (money, cell phone, camera, batteries, rubbers, medications,...), at one place things you might when you are outside for quite a time and especially when you are wearing pants that have no sidepockets and it's too warm to wear a jacket. I totally understand that wrestlers and bodybuilders (perhaps other sportsmen as well) still wear them these days.

And I could even see them return into fashion. Just have some idiot trendsetter wear them and you will see many idiot followers wear them. It worked for other more ridiulous crap that is even far more useless: boots over jeans, furry boots (yeah, take that melina!), Paris Hilton sunglasses, platform boots (*yuck* the worst examples can be seen in the gothic scene), pink shirts for men, anything "metrosexual", the unlimited gayness that is Visual Kei, etc.

Hell, fanny packs are not THE worst fashion crime!

[repomanfan]

on a side note....you guys remember laser pointers. that red dot was always pointing on a superstar in the late 90s... i got kicked out of a house show for pointing it on billy gunns head.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Where else would you keep your roids?

[sexualvanilla]

boberts said:

Where else would you keep your roids?

In their body?

[Dean-o]

I only owned 1 fanny pack in my day, and it was a Nintendo licensed one made to hold my b&w GameBoy and about 6 games. I went everywhere with that. Even though the lettering on the pack was in PINK. I didn't care.

[taarna]

repomanfan said:

nobody and i mean nobody other then pro wrestlers and maybe bodybuilders still wear those things(i used to have one in the early 90s). i wear one of those small one strap backpacks when im going out(if i have a few things to take). there stylish and i dont look like im stuck in 1991.

People still wear them at the casinos around here. But, I guess that's not a place where the most fashion forward hang out.

Back when I was single, I'd wear one when I went to things like the amusement park. I felt kinda silly, but also it seemed like the safe thing to do. Thankfully, I just let my husband carry my ID and all that when we go out now and I can't carry my purse.

[The Ichi]

deannjn said:

I only owned 1 fanny pack in my day, and it was a Nintendo licensed one made to hold my b&w GameBoy and about 6 games. I went everywhere with that. Even though the lettering on the pack was in PINK. I didn't care.

I saw some Legend of Zelda fannypacks in a game store the other day. I'm gonna have to invest in one of those badboys.

[Mr T L Wolf]

You know, repomanfan, there are more powerful laser pointers now that are green and blue.