The Loneliness of the mid-card wrestler
Jul. 15th, 2012 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Most of those who followed Wrestling in the 80s remember Virgil- the personal assistant oft he Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase.
Virgil, like so many wrestlers makes the rounds of comic conventions, sports memorabilia shows and the like. Unfortunately, for Virgil, he was someone on the periphery of the big time.
That is why a couple of years ago when this picture was making the rounds on then internets, I felt compelled to post it.
Come 2012, there are entire websites dedicated to the idea of the Lonely Virgil - pictures of Virgil selling his autograph and wares with no one interested in them.
The new interest in Lonely Virgil probably buoyed by this picture advertising Virgil (and a misspelled Ted "DiBaise" who is nowhere to be found), that started making the rounds last month.
Deadspin (sorta the sports version of TMZ) did an article on the Lonely Virgil phenomena.
it would be one thing if Virgil was just an ex-wrestler who no one cared about; but stories reveal him as a desperate, pathetic egomaniac.
The stories at deadspin of readers' encounters with Virgil is some of the funniest reading and some of the saddest content I have read in months. It reveals the Virgil phenomenon as the kind of trainwreck that you feel obliged to watch, but at the same time, like a trainwreck, best to avoid altogether.
i post this, because I think some of you will really get a kick out of the sad, funny, and true Run-ins with Virgil.
Virgil, like so many wrestlers makes the rounds of comic conventions, sports memorabilia shows and the like. Unfortunately, for Virgil, he was someone on the periphery of the big time.
That is why a couple of years ago when this picture was making the rounds on then internets, I felt compelled to post it.
Come 2012, there are entire websites dedicated to the idea of the Lonely Virgil - pictures of Virgil selling his autograph and wares with no one interested in them.
The new interest in Lonely Virgil probably buoyed by this picture advertising Virgil (and a misspelled Ted "DiBaise" who is nowhere to be found), that started making the rounds last month.
Deadspin (sorta the sports version of TMZ) did an article on the Lonely Virgil phenomena.
it would be one thing if Virgil was just an ex-wrestler who no one cared about; but stories reveal him as a desperate, pathetic egomaniac.
The stories at deadspin of readers' encounters with Virgil is some of the funniest reading and some of the saddest content I have read in months. It reveals the Virgil phenomenon as the kind of trainwreck that you feel obliged to watch, but at the same time, like a trainwreck, best to avoid altogether.
i post this, because I think some of you will really get a kick out of the sad, funny, and true Run-ins with Virgil.
