October 16, 2009 -- Captain Lou Albano, one of the most famous professional wrestling managers of all time passed away October 14 at his home in Carmel, New York, and members of the wrestling fraternity have reached out to express their grief, according to www.captainhoagie.com
The popular young mens' site, which monitors social networking trends, reported a huge spike in activity regarding Albano's passing, including several of the top trending topics on Twitter during the afternoon.
One story that had people talking was former WWE Smackdown Head Writer and ECW owner/creative guru Paul Heyman's blog on Albano's wild drinking. Heyman, who was a teen photographer that knew all the wrestlers, wrote about a particularly insane road trip with Albano and WWE legend Classy Freddy Blassie.
In his blog (http://heymanhustle.craveonline.com/articles/news/22266-rip-captain-lou), Heyman wrote:
Lou would just laugh, with both feet on the gas pedal, and hanging onto the steering wheel for dear life. All of a sudden, Lou goes into an insane coughing fit, and spits up some phlemmy-looking loogie that must have come from the deepest, darkest recesses of his digestive system. This frightening piece of intestinal backwash ends up all over the inside of the windshield, and Lou pulls a tissue out of his pocket, wipes it off the windshield ... we're still going 90 miles an hour, mind you... and proceeds to suck the loogie back down with a big mischievous smile on his face. Blassie was going to hurl. "Did you see that?" he screamed, "what the (expletives abound) is wrong with you? That's the sickest thing I've ever seen ... and I've seen some sick things in my life! Albano, I'm never driving with you again!" All of a sudden, Lou slams on the brakes, as the car slides sideways. He tries to open his door, but can't find the handle. He finally jumps out of the car, hangs onto the window as if he'll collapse without its support, and spits up about 10 of those revolting looking loogies. Blassie was horrified. I, of course, being just a kid, thought this was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Man, did I have a story to tell when I got home. Of course, I was going to leave the drinking and driving part out when I told my parents, but why quibble over small details?
More social network trending on the passing of Captain Lou Albano is available at http://captainhoagie.com/images/captainloualbano.html
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