Overdue Tribute

Last week I watched Wrestlemania to see my favorite wrestler of all-time "entertain" (I know it's fake!) in his final match.  After 35 years the "Nature Boy" has retired.

My older brother, Marc, and I grew up loving and watching wrestling on TBS.  We had our own matches (for some reason he always won).  On Christmas Day in 1988 we even went to the Omni in Atlanta to see Ric ... I touched his robe (rumored to be worth $10k ... maybe he'll donate it to our Next Step campaign now that he is retired)!!

• Ric was world champion 16 times.


• Ric's signature move was the "figure four leg lock".  Someone put this move on me before the state track meet my senior year.  Our relay team lost -- maybe it's not all fake :)


• Ric was in a plane crash in the early 1970s.


• Wooooooooooo!!


• My wife met Ric this year in BWI Airport ... she asked him if he was a Christian ... he said "yes."  :)