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Post by wildojinx on Feb 21, 2021 12:47:32 GMT -5
Noticed that on a lot of 1992 broadcasts, Bobby Heenan wore sweaters for Indiana University. Heenan never even went to college, so what was with this, some inside joke?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2021 12:50:49 GMT -5
He was Indiana’s favorite Bobby.It was a bit he did with wrestlemania coming to Indiana and he claimed he never heard of Bobby Knight.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Feb 21, 2021 13:30:41 GMT -5
No surprise Heenan didn't go to college, why bother with something if Hacksaw is good enough for it?
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 21, 2021 13:33:38 GMT -5
Apter mags considered it a reference to Ted Knight's character on Too Close for Comfort.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 21, 2021 13:56:46 GMT -5
He was Indiana’s favorite Bobby.It was a bit he did with wrestlemania coming to Indiana and he claimed he never heard of Bobby Knight. I think around this time Bobby Knight was having controversy over throwing a chair at a referee or something |
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 21, 2021 14:00:53 GMT -5
Its also worth noting that Heenan worked a lot in Indiana while in Dick the Bruiser's WWA territory so it might have been both an in character gag and a shout out at the same time.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 21, 2021 16:30:32 GMT -5
He was Indiana’s favorite Bobby.It was a bit he did with wrestlemania coming to Indiana and he claimed he never heard of Bobby Knight. I think around this time Bobby Knight was having controversy over throwing a chair at a referee or something The chair throwing thing was 5-6 years earlier atleast. Pretty sure it was mid80’s |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 21, 2021 17:24:34 GMT -5
I think around this time Bobby Knight was having controversy over throwing a chair at a referee or something The chair throwing thing was 5-6 years earlier atleast. Pretty sure it was mid80’s Could be. My knowledge of American High School Basketball is limited. |
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Feb 21, 2021 17:43:09 GMT -5
It's not like Prime Time had a strict dress code or anything...  It's actually kind of neat that Vince must have been like "Ya know what? Let's just be comfy for once. Wear a sweater, sweats, whatever you're feeling" |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 21, 2021 19:13:10 GMT -5
It's not like Prime Time had a strict dress code or anything... It's actually kind of neat that Vince must have been like "Ya know what? Let's just be comfy for once. Wear a sweater, sweats, whatever you're feeling"  |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 21, 2021 19:29:19 GMT -5
It's not like Prime Time had a strict dress code or anything... It's actually kind of neat that Vince must have been like "Ya know what? Let's just be comfy for once. Wear a sweater, sweats, whatever you're feeling" Probably because those tapings took all damn day and the audience was made up of WWF employees. Heenan says if Vince goes live at 7, he goes live at 7. But if he’s taping at 7, he tapes at 10 because he’s busy doing a million other things. |
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Post by nate5054 on Feb 22, 2021 1:22:58 GMT -5
He was Indiana’s favorite Bobby.It was a bit he did with wrestlemania coming to Indiana and he claimed he never heard of Bobby Knight. Yeah, the simple answer is that he grew up in Indiana and it was probably an ode to his state. |
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Post by thecrusherwi on Feb 22, 2021 12:12:08 GMT -5
No surprise Heenan didn't go to college, why bother with something if Hacksaw is good enough for it? Random but I was recently watching Prime Time from December 1990 and they’re talking about the Jake Roberts/Rick Martel blinding angle and Bobby says “Gorilla did you know this year the Royal Rumble will have 58 eyes. Once you account for Jake and Hacksaw” |
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Post by They Adam Bradley on Feb 22, 2021 12:32:30 GMT -5
As a Indiana Hoosier I always remembered this and thought it was so cool!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2021 15:39:27 GMT -5
.......Heenan and Knight met eventually, right? I wanna say that did happen on a show eventually.
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Post by petef3 on Feb 22, 2021 21:17:41 GMT -5
There was definitely a Ted Knight thing in an addition to a Bobby-being-from-Indiana thing, because for a lot of those studio-audience Prime Times Heenan is wearing random sweaters to all sorts of colleges, just like Knight did on his sitcom of around that time.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Feb 22, 2021 21:28:21 GMT -5
It's not like Prime Time had a strict dress code or anything... It's actually kind of neat that Vince must have been like "Ya know what? Let's just be comfy for once. Wear a sweater, sweats, whatever you're feeling" Wow. Heenan and Vince look like they are wearing early prototype Max Moon attire. |
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Post by madness50 on Feb 23, 2021 1:44:28 GMT -5
When I saw those shots of Heenan wearing red sweaters, he was almost like a doppelgänger for Bobby Knight.
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Post by SmashTV on Feb 23, 2021 14:20:52 GMT -5
It's not like Prime Time had a strict dress code or anything... It's actually kind of neat that Vince must have been like "Ya know what? Let's just be comfy for once. Wear a sweater, sweats, whatever you're feeling" I thought that nothing could best Vince’s yellow sweatpants at first. I stand corrected. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Feb 23, 2021 14:25:47 GMT -5
Come on Vince, you could do better then that. At least Andre's trying. And it's probably not easy for Andre to find clothes in his size. |
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