Wrestler With Rubber Bands In His Beard

With his open hawaiian shirts outrageous facial hair and trademark rubber bands hanging from his cheek captain lou may not have looked like much of a success but his record speaks for itself.

Wrestler with rubber bands in his beard. As a result albano became one of the indelible images of the 1980s. I decided to wear the rubber. Albano was an excellent athlete as a youth attending the university of tennessee on a football scholarship. Albano wore garish clashing outfits.

Collaborating with cyndi lauper albano helped usher in wrestling s crossover success with a mainstream audience. You probably remember that the captain ushered in the rock and wrestling connection into pro wrestling. Capitalizing on his success he later ventured into hollywood with. He loomed over cyndi lauper with boisterous physicality.

Scolding her as her father would rubber bands sticking out of his beard and flailing with the same cartoonish kinetic frenzy he displayed at wwf events. My guess would be the rubber bands on his face were just part of the whole captain lou albano gimmick along with the long scraggly beard and outrageous shirts he wore and his mile a minute motormouth. A unique showman with an elongated beard rubber band facial piercings and loud outfits albano was the forefather of the 1980s rock n wrestling connection. Michael francis foley was born in bloomington indiana on june 7 1965.

He is of irish descent and has an older brother named john. That wasn t the only uncanny aspect of captain lou. Wrestling was about to change forever. He sported three rubber bands dangling from a pin on one cheek another three hanging from an ear and one more through a long beard as wild as his curly dark hair.

He looked abuzz at all times his wild eyes darting everywhere. Shortly after his birth he moved with his family to the long island town of east setauket new york about 40 miles east of new york city where he attended ward melville high school at school he wrestled and played lacrosse and was a classmate and.