Social media is both a great thing and a not-so-great thing, and it’s probably a good thing it wasn’t around when The Godfather was still an active wrestler.
WWE Hall of Famer The Godfather recently appeared on the ‘Stories With Brisco & Bradshaw’ and the trio would delve into what it would’ve been like to have had social media back in their heyday.
“I remember when I started, they had just came out with beepers and pagers and I thought why the hell would you want one of those?” Godfather posited. “People can just get ahold of you at any time but could you imagine the trouble we would be in today with cell phones and social media, just imagine the amount of trouble we’d be in just on a normal night. I think one time with John, I broke into the front of a hotel, didn’t I?”
JBL would then explain the incident.
“In Chicago, that’s right. He’s driving us from somewhere and he had indulged just a little bit in the morning and he’s driving down a hill and almost drives through the big front windows, like almost directly through the windows. We were screaming ‘stop, stop!’ and he looks at us and he goes ‘yeah, yeah windows’ and then he’s driving us to Rosemont and we get about a half a mile and he says ‘did you guys see me almost drive us through those windows?’ and we go ‘no, we weren’t in the car… of course we saw you almost drive into those windows!’ and Ron [Simmons] goes ‘why are we letting him drive?’”
The Godfather then chimes back in with another driving incident and shared how he inadvertently pulled up to ask a police officer directions while he was smoking marijuana… and parked right under the sign he was looking for.
“We were driving and I don’t remember where it was but it was somewhere on the east coast, I was driving and we were lost for a second but I was smoking, do you remember me pulling up to a cop, going across the street, rolling down my window, the cop rolls down his window and looks at me and I’m like ‘hey man, do you know where 92 is?’ and he just points up to the sign, we look up and the sign’s right there and I’m like ‘thanks, man, later, man!’ and I keep smoking and you guys are like ‘what the f-ck?!’”
Brisco would then remind The Godfather of yet another humorous tale that took place in Las Vegas, and Godfather went on to explain his version of the story.
”My version is I think we were riding together and back then you had to rent cars and we’d drop everyone off and then someone would go drop the rent-a-car off. So, I drop the rental car off and go to the airport and I had the stuff [weed] on me and they know that I have it on me, so I’m walking through the airport and I see Ron and John talking to a cop and they got this dog and I’m like ‘oh, man!’. So, I turn the other way and one of them goes ‘Godfather, come over here!’ and I’m thinking they’re going to get me busted and I’m acting like I don’t hear them, so I go over there and John goes ‘this is his dog, he’s a bomb-sniffing dog’. Luckily dogs are only trained to sniff out one thing whether it’s bombs or marijuana or whatever it may be, but thank God he wasn’t a marijuana dog.”
Bradshaw closed by saying that they knew it was a bomb-sniffing dog, but they had been ribbing on The Godfather.
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