"Abdullah " Whimper

Haven't seen it mentioned, might have missed it, but how do you rate his play? I'm no Oline kinda guy, but he didn't get blasted for whiffing on blocks, and I didn't think he played as god awful as I thought he would when he came in. So, possible start at Oakland?

 

Am I missing something with the nickname "Abdullah"? And yeah, in preseason he was a turnstyle but his play this past weekend has been praised by many on the board (including myself) in other threads. He played well above everyone's expectations. So yeah, I think a start in Oakland is a very good possibility. They might go with Gilbert if he is fully healed but if there are any doubts, Guy is your guy *pun intended*.

 

Apparently his teammates call him Abdullah The Butcher.

 

Abdullah the Butcher is one of the greatest hardcore wrestlers of all time and he used to scare me to death as a kid. His battles with Cactus Jack are absolutely epic! ESPECIALLY the japanese stuff!

 

Ahem, yeah I mentioned it in the o line thread earlier. Coach gave him the title and apparently his boy refers to himself as Abdullah's son. That's cool... Whatever they want to call him, doesn't matter to me. Just glad he played a heckuva lot better than we were all lead to believe he was capable of.

 

LOL! You just unwittingly contributed to Steelers lingo.

 

Been practicing my whole life. Hahaha

 

But now I must know if you're an old school wrestling fan because I am an old school devotee???

 

Honestly, Haystack Calhoun comes to mind.

 

DANG! How about some Terry Funk???

 

Hahahaha... Ain't watched much of it in years, but I did growing up and listening to my dads stories. Good stuff.

 

After doing a quick google on haystack, I found out we have the same birthday... SCORE!!!

 

That's cool. My favorite wrestler of all time is probably Bret Hart in WWF and EASILY Sting in WCW. I mean blonde haired Sting that beat Ric Flair at the Great American Bash in Baltimore for his first title in July of 1990 when I was 8 which is one of the greatest moments of my childhood. Sting actually talked to me during a match one time. I was on the front row of the Civic Coliseum in Knoxville and he threw "Stunning" Steve Austin against the rail and I had to lift my hand to keep him from hitting me and Sting walked over and looked at me and said "We're having fun now aren't we!?" and dude I literally almost started crying and still as I tell this I get chills. That was his catchphrase and I had a WCW belt that I played with all the time with his voice in it and he said that. It was just so awesome. I wear an Ultimate Warrior shirt quite frequently as well. That late 80s early 90s period was the greatest in wrestling history.

 

That's cool man. Yeah we were all about Goldberg after following hogan to the wcw... Good times my friend. Many fond memories of Monday night football followed by wresting!

 

Yeah it was fun to watch Goldberg on his "Who's next?" streak. Raven was somebody I really liked in WCW during that era.

 

http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG...tp://www.tvofyourlife.com/rememberwhenpgh.htm

here are some old school favorites. real old school guys. the legend Bruno sammartino, the batman, killer kawolski, George the animal steel (by the way I was talking about him in another thread this week and only 1 guy aknowledge knowing who I meant LOL prolly an old guy too.), jumpin johnny DeFazio, lot's of memories watching this. hosted by chilli billie cardile and he hosted chiller theater on Saturday night. << had to be home after the first movie in those days. LOL good times.

 

George was my favorite growing up! Eat the turnbuckles. On another note, go Abdullah and Go Steelers! Hahahaha had to redirect the importance of the hijacked post here.

 

Bruno Sanmartino? Ha-ha He was from Coraopolis right?

 

I'm old enough to remember Rufus R. Jones and his headbut! I remember when Georgous George wrestled...dang I hate aging myself!

 

Heh, Magnum T.A. and Dusty Rhodes.....

 

I agree dob, if Abdullah the butcher keeps playing like last week, he will be hard to take out of the game. time will tell but I like the bad attitude these guys brought to the field. very cool seeing a little mean out of our O-Line. maybe we can get the butcher to chew on the training table corners in between series. LOL

 

abdullah the butcher was one my heroes long time ago..

 

heck he was mine sunday after beachum.

 

Did you ever get to watch Classy Freddy Blassie? George Steel is great btw!

 

that name is familiar as were a lot of the one's on the lists that thread had. brought back a lot of memories. professor tanaka was one that me and one of my best friends still have a little thing we say from when we watched this as kids. "tanaka you out" LOL. that was 40+ years ago. damn, now i'm sad.