Things Floridians Love: Wrestling
Growing up in our house, dinnertime was always accompanied by three things: the local Channel 13 news (back when it was CBS), Three's Company and wrestling.
I'm not sure why wrestling found a welcome home in sunny Tampa, Florida, but Championship Wrestling Florida operated from 1961-1987. Before the WWF or the WWE, there was Gordon Solie on the play-by-play, an audience of about 100 locals and my personal fave, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes (pictured below).
To this day, I still have a pretty good recollection of the heroes, villians... sometimes heroes turned villians and vice versa.
In memory of Captain Lou Albano. See Idolator's highlights of Capt. Lou's life and energy here.
I'm not sure why wrestling found a welcome home in sunny Tampa, Florida, but Championship Wrestling Florida operated from 1961-1987. Before the WWF or the WWE, there was Gordon Solie on the play-by-play, an audience of about 100 locals and my personal fave, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes (pictured below).
To this day, I still have a pretty good recollection of the heroes, villians... sometimes heroes turned villians and vice versa.
In memory of Captain Lou Albano. See Idolator's highlights of Capt. Lou's life and energy here.