Snow received some mainstream publicity in 1999 when Wal-Mart pulled his action figure from their shelves after Sabrena Parton, a professor at Kennesaw State University, complained that “Head” was a “decapitated woman’s head” that sent an inappropriate message about violence towards women. Parton was quoted as saying “My sons are 6 and 11. What kind of message would this toy send them about brutalization of women?” Snow used the story as part of an angle in which the controversy caused Al Snow to suffer from depression. In one skit, Snow called his mother (kayfabe), observing that the stores would not sell his action figures, but would sell shotguns and ammunition.
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The argument that
"wrestling isn't real"
is so obtuse, so dull to the point at hand, so willfully ignorant of the concept of reality.
What's so real about any game?
What is real in any way about putting men in bizarre clothes, giving them an oblong ball, and asking them to run it across a line for 60 minutes?
Worse yet, what's real about paying them millions of dollars to do it?
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