Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling by Foley Mick

Author:Foley, Mick [Foley, Mick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780061032417
Published: 2002-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

23: "Foliability”

MY BOOK HAD HIT number one, but sadly, I was wrestling like number two. You know, as in one for pee pee and two for . . . well, you know.

I was lucky in the sense that I was in an angle that I enjoyed—the completely fictional story line of being Al Snow's best friend. Al, you see, had been there to console me when The Rock 'n' Sock had split up, and I was likewise there to console Al when he became the focus of a national news story that resulted in the Al Snow action figure being pulled from various stores across the nation.

The whole thing was preposterous beyond belief. A couple of teachers from Kennesaw State College in Marietta, Georgia, had made a stink about how Al's doll was a "textbook for spousal abuse," due to the severed head that Al carried to the ring. So, of course, Al's action figure came with a little tiny severed head. Immediately Al's figures were banned in many major department stores across the nation, causing them for the first time to actually be worth something.

I only saw one problem with the whole situation: Al didn't carry a severed head. He carried a mannequin's head that he looked to for guidance and companionship. Yeah, I know it sounds stupid, but at the very worst, it elicited a "we want HEAD" chant. Sure, it was a cheap pop, but it beat the pop that Al had been getting, which was close to unchartable. The truth is that Al's "head" had never been portrayed as, nor was ever even hinted as being, a severed human head.

It was a sad day indeed when I proudly showed off a little tiny article about me in Time to Al and he was able to humble me by opening up to a two-page spread on his predicament in the very same issue. Didn't anyone even do any research before banning the figures, or did they figure that with Halloween on the horizon, a tribute to the Salem Witch Trials would be appropriate? What about the two teachers raising the ridiculous stink? I swear, I lived one mile from Kennesaw State for five years, and I never even considered it as being a real college.

Speaking of Halloween, Dewey dressed up as Al Snow. He looked great, but looked just a little too handsome to really do Al justice.

Fortunately, Al and I were able to have a lot of fun with this rather bizarre hand that paranoia and hysteria had dealt him. We were able to do some great promos about the subject, including one where Al acted so forlorn that he threatened to buy a shotgun and live ammunition at one of the stores that wouldn't sell his figure and do himself in. In one show, I was able to serenade Al with a 15,000-strong sing-along of "He's a Jolly Good Fellow" after yet another Snow loss. The teaming helped Al to the point that if the

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