1988- WWF is at Bob Guertin Arena....
Me and a few friends go see the event - then one of my friends, genius/part-time nutjob that he was, decides we should hang around back after the show for autographs.
We get there. Genius has another idea. He says" I'll sneak in and get that dude's hat." I say "Who?
" He goes "BORIS!" and sneaks quietly through the back doors of the arena.
10 minutes later...
The doors burst open, out runs my genius friend/nutjob with Boris' hat in his hands...out runs Boris Zhukov...out runs Nikolai Volkoff....the two wrestlers are swearing their asses off (In English with no Russian accent) and chasing my genius friend around the parking lot and into the streets.
Nikolai stops and starts laughing his ass off at Boris.
Next week on WWF TV, new costumes for the Bolsheviks (Nikolai & Boris) and pre-WWF, pseudo-Russian gimmick hat for me.
And that's why
Hat Thievery rules...One to grow on.
