I love the idea that a 7′ 7″ farmer is being interrupted from his daily chores of utilizing various animals as dumb bells by a kung fu master in a karate gi and a pantsless guy wearing the sparkliest star spangled jacket you ever did. …and while the footage is so blurry I can’t be sure, I am thinking that is Tojo Yamamoto and a very young Jeff Jarrett or an older Jerry Jarrett. Tell me that thing isn’t completely horrified.īig John’s bovine crippling antics are soon interrupted by two men in completely goofy outfits of their own… You wouldn’t think it would be possible to top Lanny reciting poetry outside a castle somewhere in Tennessee (wait, what?), but the promo vids we got for Big John were in a class all on their own.Īs he was positioned as a big ol’ country bumpkin (is there such a thing as a small one of those?), we got footage of him eating a hearty breakfast, then walking around his farm, then pointing at random things, all before finally lifting a cow over his shoulders for no discernible reason. That territory featured all manner of insane hype videos…I mean, who could forget that one with Lanny Poffo dressed up as a knight? Originally showing up in Memphis in 1985, he was dubbed Big John Harris. What’s more, the guy ain’t wearing lifts – he’s wearing tennis shoes. And as you can see, this isn’t some prop deal where Lance is in a hole like Vince used to talk with Andre the Giant – they are level on the floor. In that picture above, he is talking eyeball to nipple with the guy. I mean, let’s say Lance Russell is 5′ 8″. So yeah, while I don’t know he was really seven and a half feet tall, he was obviously ginormous. Honestly, I am a bit perturbed I had not seen that earlier in November, as I can only imagine the joy my family would have experienced as they ate turkey today with that painted on the walls. It’s like Tron if Tron was decorating his house for Thanksgiving and wanted to go with a slightly different color palette. One thing I do know, though.Īctually, I know more than one thing, also I also know the background for that Memphis set is the most amazingly 1980’s thing I have ever seen. Whether that was a legit height or a gimmicked one, I have no idea.
His name was John Harris and the dude was 7′ 7″ tall. But lo and behold, they were all one man, a splendid, wonderful, insanely incredible human being who I am sure will bring joy to your innards as well.
Trapper Jon? I thought he was a guy on M*A*S*H. No idea who Little John from World Class was either. So yeah, if you don’t know him, you shouldn’t feel bad. Thank you, giant man who I’d never even heard of until about 72 hours ago. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.It’s been many years since I have laughed as hard as I did this week. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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