Archive Entry #33: October 18, 1990

Posted on October 28, 2014.

Some of my fondest childhood memories revolve around my household’s loyalty to the “sport” of professional wrestling.

Omaha was a hotbed for wrestling, which back then consisted of a collection of regional consortia rather than one dominant entertainment mogul such as is today’s Word Wrestling Entertainment. So we watched the local channel’s Monday night in-studio matches and we occasionally attended the paid events at the city’s civic auditorium.

So important was wrestling to our family’s fabric that a few months ago when one of the wrestler’s named in today’s archive entry died, my sister texted me about “the end of an era.” We comforted each other in our grief.

But alas, pro wrestling is but the gateway to another subject in the following column that continues a brief series of entries germane to this political season, namely, political ads. As you will note from my 24 year old description of the ads back before the 1990 midterms, not much has changed about them...and that’s not a good thing.

 

 

 

 

COMING NEXT: From January 2008, a column about junk in politics. Who’d a thunk those two words would EVER belong together in the same sentence? Find it HERE.