>>20625483
Mongo was the only one that was known for football. Maybe Wahoo too, I'm not old enough to know. He had a decent NFL career. Nobody cares about college football but degenerate gamblers

i never gave a flying fuck either. don't give 2 shits about football. if i wanted to watch football i'd watch football. one of the reasons i never rated JR all that highly. dimwitted Okie buffoon just assumes the whole world is obsessed with football just because he is. any match he calls, it's so obvious he'd rather be calling football and he's just a pathetic reject stuck doing wrestling.

>>20625515
He's not in the collage, but I'd argue Ernie Ladd is atleast worthy of discussion. You can knock it for being pre-NFL/AFL merger, but he was atleast getting All-Pros.
Nobody other than Mongo is really worth praising. Ron's good enough to be a college legend but nobody else did shit.

>>20625483
Americans are subhuman, they derive life success from literal bovine behavior

>>20625483
>As a Europoor I just zoned out.
Shows that, just like many Americans, you have zero cognitive ability to see/appreciate things from outside of your own perspective. That's not something to be proud of, anon. It displays a lack of brain power. Sincerely, no offense.

>>20625571
It more speaks to how little wrestling matters to boomers. You're trying to say that these people are legit because they accomplished something outside of wrestling rather than their wrestling accomplishments. Framing football as more prestigious than wrestling. Why are you framing it this way to wrestling fans?

>>20625483
im a huge football fan and i dont give a single fuck about wrestlers with football backgrounds
tony is retarded for not having travis hunter do spots in AEW

>>20625584
>It more speaks to how little wrestling matters to boomers.
The ones who put wrestling on the mainstream map, became household names, and drew 33 million on TV after Mania 3, you mean. Hey, I can rip on them as much as the next guy, but boomers were the GOAT entertainers and it isn't even close.

>>20625549
Shouldn't you be getting ready for work? Oh right, you've never been employed and have cost taxpayers untold millions in expenses.

>>20625483
I don't personally care about football but football player usually means strong and explosive athlete. WWE could use a lot more of those instead of signing these indy schmuks

>>20625590
Then why is JR speaking of Ron Simmons college football career and not the fact that he's the first ever black WCW world champion, or how much Doom dominated the tag division.

>>20625483
I never really gave a shit about their college football days either. Besides most of them are failed football players that had to resort to wrestling

>>20625483
>Europoor
You're taller, live longer, and have a higher IQ on average. That doesn't sound like poverty to me.

>>20625483
This got the euros seething for some fucking reason

>>20625515
Vader claimed that he played in a Super Bowl final but there are little to no records of it.

>>20625619
because JR is a fucking retard who didn't realize he was burying wrestling by acting like college football accomplishments are more important

>>20625483
In American culture, football is very big. They have football players as politicians even, like Gerald Ford, Jack Kemp and Hershel Walker.

the most famous football player that never wrestled was O. J. Simpson

>>20625549
kirdblt

>>20625894
The Rock played football and is much more well known than OJ

>>20625944
You retard

Americans are superhuman, they derive life success from their literal godly behavior.

>>20625944
The Rock also wrestled. Did you know that? OJ never wrestled, believe it or not.

>>20625483
Football is king of American sports so I guess the carnies used it as a crutch to legitimise those that came from that background. Yeah it really means nothing when you transition to pro wrestling unless you literally do a tackle/pounce move like Monty Brown in your moveset

>>20625608
>football player usually means strong and explosive athlete
but by the time they decide to try wrestling they are old and washed up physically

>>20625483
Old redneck hick mentality that football player =/= pinnacle of human physicality.
This translates to a wrestler being a very tough person in hick-culture.

It’s boomer shit that is slowly being phased out, though it’s mostly because the show is more internationally focused rather than a slice of Americana.

What a retarded fucking thread. It's solely to sell what an athlete the wrestler is. If they wrestled or played baseball or did track & field they mentioned that too. Is two throwaway lines of commentary in a match that offensive to you?

>>20626055
yes faggot because I don't care about your shitty useless American sports. You don't see them mention Finn Balor's Gaelic football days, or Wade Barretts soccer days

>>20626045
Nothing will be regional anymore. One world will come true

>>20626057
First off, it's an American TV show retard. No one in America knows what the fuck gaelic football is. Second, if Wade or anyone played soccer at a legitimately high level I'm sure they would have mentioned it.

>>20626085
it's an international tv show moron. And college football is not high level.

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>>20626093
>it's an international tv show moron

Put a random college football linebacker in a fight against the best professional Gaelic football player and tell me who wins bro.

>>20626093
Nobody cares about gaylick football or soccer

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>>20626101
finn balor is a fag, but gaelic football is much better than pigskin monkeyball anyday. football is fucking stupid and im tired of pretending otherwise. all these wrestlers probably left football because they were tired of playing a sport thats so damn boring the audience prays for horrible injuries to occur just because they want something interesting to finally happen. and yea, football is rigged too. in fact, football is probably more rigged than wrestling because more people gamble on football. football fans are the worst part of all, they literally dont care or talk about anything else in life. ask em about the weather?
>FOOTBAAAAALL!
ask em about politics
>FOOTBAAAAALL!
ask em how their familys doin
>FOOTBAAAAALL!
bunch of drunken retarded mutants causing riots and car accidents after every football game, scratchin their ass in public, wipin boogers on all the doors, playin grabass in the streets while claiming they arent gay, and lowering the average american IQ by a huge margin.

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>>20626301
Hating sports isn't a personality and won't reverse the star QB at your highschool fucking your crush while you played Disgaea

>>20626317
well, tom brady is the only football player who isnt a flaming homo and you probably arent him. its more likely that youre another pedophile middle school football coach who tries (and often fails) to rape young boys in the showers. football players arent banging the local girls, theyre too busy slamming pigskins into each others "endzones" lol. and when a footballfag is getting molested by his coach, the last thing he hears before passing out from the pain will be
>TOUCHDOOOOOOOWN!!!

>>20626340
>>20626301
promos good

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>>20626340
>tom brady is the only football player who isnt a flaming homo
KEK that choking cheating refbabby fraud can't go a month without making out with his own son

>>20626360
hey footballfag, the next time your favorite team wins, try not to go around saying "WE WON YEAH!" because you didnt do shit except drink a bunch of shitty overpriced stadium beer, puke all over the stands, and then get sued by the cheerleaders for sexual harassment

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>>20626381
>the next time your favorite team wins
oh don't worry about that

>>20626301
>>20626340
I’m sorry you were bullied in high school kek

>>20626396
im sorry your high school football coach blitzed his way into your endzone with a wet hail mary play and unleashed another closeted faggot upon the world. you cant move the goalposts because coach already smashed your goalposts until both sides collapsed.

>>20626093
1980 Orange Bowl with Ron Simmons and FSU vs Jim Ross's Oklahoma had a 25.1 Nielsen rating, so like 30 million viewers. Simmons is a college football hall of famer and was a Heisman trophy contender. In the US, especially in the south, football guys like Tim Tebow while in college are more known than most NHL players. Simmons didn't last in the pros too long, not sure why, maybe injury related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Orange_Bowl

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>>20625515
>Nobody cares about college football but degenerate gamblers

It's like the most watched American thing after NFL

>>20626445
lmao what the fuck is the Heisman trophy and why should I care if a wrestler won in back in college.

>>20625483
I feel like it's the most common overlap imaginable.
Also, Goldberg with hair looks so strange to me.

I think Luger played in the CFL but no one cares about that. I guess it's interesting, but when the other wrestlers are billed as "garbage man", "IRS", "repo man", police man, etc, football seems kind of generic in comparison

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>>20626522
Alright, listen up! The Heisman Trophy is a prestigious award, given to the best college football player in the nation. We’re talking about athletes who train hard, put in the hours, and make sacrifices to excel in one of the most brutal sports out there.
Now, if a current pro wrestler won the Heisman, that’s a story, isn’t it? It’s like the wrestling world and the football world colliding in a big splash! But let me tell you something: while I respect the athleticism in both, winning a Heisman is about more than just muscles and showmanship. It’s about skill, strategy, and the heart of a competitor!
Why should you care? Because it shows that athletes are not just one-dimensional! Imagine a wrestler who’s probably body slamming opponents in the ring—also dominated on the college gridiron. It’s a reminder that talent can cross boundaries. It challenges the norms and breaks the mold.
But let’s not lose sight of what the Heisman represents. It’s a celebration of football excellence. If a wrestler can pull it off, that’s impressive, but it also raises questions. Are we blurring the lines too much?
So whether you’re a fan of wrestling, football, or both, this is a moment that sparks conversation. Just remember, whether in the ring or on the field, it takes more than just bravado to be a champion!

the only reason they got into wrestling is that they were not good enough to be professionals.
Even Lesnar failed

>>20626638
That or they were college football

>>20626083
I will never give a fuck about soccer

>>20625483
Why did Goldberg shave all his hair?

>>20627339
Probably was balding early and decided to cut it all off before it ever became noticeable.

>>20625483
Dusty Rhodes also did college football at one point before transitioning to wrestling.

There's also wrestlers who used to play baseball and basketball too

>>20628009
but commentators never talk about that

>>20625483
Fuck off Ranjeet

>>20628020
I don't know why, but it does explain his athletic prowess back in the day