See A Very Young Goldberg Talk About Football (Video)
Hard to imagine WWE Hall Of Famer Goldberg had a clean shave and full head of hair at one point, but there was a time in his football days when “Da Man” was a babyfaced badass. Twitter account @allan_cheapshot shared a brief look at Bill pre-black trunks and jackhammer.
Baby @Goldberg pic.twitter.com/DwentqzU4G
— Allan (@allan_cheapshot) November 25, 2018
In an early 2017 WWE.com interview with Goldberg, Bill talked about his time playing football for the Atlanta Falcons before his squared circle days and how it related to the coolest moment in his wrestling career:
“My football career in a short synopsis was that I had to fight to stay afloat. I was smaller, so I had to be tenacious. I had to be smarter than the next guy. I had to try harder, be the first guy to show up, you know? I had to do everything right. It was a tough journey just to get that opportunity, but I gotta say something about the Falcons ’cause everybody always asks me what the coolest wrestling moment of my life was, and, obviously, 99.9 percent of the people think I’m gonna say beating [Hulk] Hogan in the Georgia Dome. That’s true, but not for the reasons they probably believe. Now, it’s true, putting 44,000 people with four days’ notice in the Georgia Dome was pretty cool, and to be able to wrestle Hogan six months into the business was cool, but the coolest thing for me was after I won and after we went off the air, The nWo was beating me down, and they handcuffed me to the corner. And then, who came out from the back to save me but 15 to 20 of my [Falcons] teammates.”
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Two HOFers Clash For The First Time On PPV 26 Years Ago
WWE Network‘s Instagram shared the following “This Day In WWE History” photo yesterday of Bret Hart locked in a Shawn Michaels sleeper as the two face off for the first time ever on PPV at Survivor Series 1992.
