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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Gator515151, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM.

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  1. Jul 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM #1
    Gator515151

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  2. Jul 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM #2
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    RIP brother!!
     
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  3. Jul 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM #3
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  4. Jul 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM #4
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    Oh .... the former bass player in several local Tampa bands. I remember him from the bar across from the multi-cinema behind Britton Plaza - biggest guy in the room shooting pool. It was sorta the place kids from Plant and Robinson HS mixed and hung out. If I remember the story correctly, Terry Bollea was "discovered" by Jack Briscoe while playing bass in a Tampa bar.
     
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  5. Jul 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM #5
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    Ozzy, hulk ..
     
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  6. Jul 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM #6
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    and Theo Huxtable
     
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  7. Jul 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM #7
    wgbgator

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    And now we’ve lost Chuck Mangione too
     
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  8. Jul 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM #8
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    Did JD Vance do another world tour in the last week?
     
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  9. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM #9
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    Yep. That’s Terry.
     
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  10. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM #10
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    Been a tough week :(
     
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  11. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM #11
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  12. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM #12
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    As a 8 or 9 year old, I saw Terry/Hulk beat up a guy at the end of Davis Islands in Tampa. He was big - not as filled out back then, but still big. Who knew back then what the future held? I was just convinced not to ever piss off someone like that.
     
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  13. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM #13
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    Malcolm-Jamal Warner also.
    (Theo Huxtable of Cosby fame)
    ...and a very good regular role in The Resident. A great hospital drama that recently ended a nice run.

    It happens in 3's it seems.

    Edit @wgbgator beat me to it.
     
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  14. Jul 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM #14
    wgbgator

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    Always in 3's. Theo, Ozzy and Chuck Mangione. Very sad.
     
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  15. Jul 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM #15
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    Add Chuck Mangione to the list of very recently departed. Man, guess this is another sign one is getting old.
     
  16. Jul 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM #16
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  17. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM #17
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    I didn't realize Hogan went to Robinson High School. That would make 4 future pro wrestlers that were at Robinson in 1969. Our Manatee team absolutely destroyed Robinson, wonder if I wrestled any of those guys. I knew Mike Graham and Dick Slater were on that Robinson team both lost their matches to us. Hogan must not have wrestled in high school or I would have remembered him.
     
  18. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM #18
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    My son told me Hulk was told 3 weeks ago his only option was a heart transplant and that he died at home under hospice care
     
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  19. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM #19
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    The greatest WWE star. RIP Hulk.(Politics has no place in this thread)
     
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  20. Jul 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM #20
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    ha we used to piss in the water by Peter o Knight and watch it glow. No terry sightings
     
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