Philzone.org Discussion Board: Archive 2004: Sports and Trivia Archive 2004: Anyone remember "Roller Derby"?

ESPN2 actually brought it back for a short while in the mid-80s. It was actually quite funny. I can't recall any team names or anything, but there were some really tough-looking broads (and a few hotties) out there.
Lotsa hair-pulling and cheap shots. The "athletes" were pretty bad actors, as i recall. There was a "Rowdy" Roddy Piper wannabe who was kinda funny.
Anybody out there have any memories of this?

You mean the original with Charlie O'Connell and the Bay Area Bombers? And Jane Weston? Nope, don't remember a thing.
Leon Russell had a song "Queen of the Roller Derby".

What was that lame ass shit they played after the original roller derby? ...you know the one with the super jump and the alligator pit!!

Thunderbirds vs. Bombers...that was worth stayin' up for on Saturday...

who was short little old dude who always used to come through in the end.

i think his name was Rocky, or Ralphie of something like that.

Two words for rollerderby fans from back in the day: El Fabuloso! Or in today's parlance" El Mutherfuckin' Fabuloso!

There was a little guy on the Bay Area Bombers named (?) Ewitt Quarles or something like that who was one of the, what is it, a "Jammer"? He was often the guy who would speed around the track just in front of his opponent while Charlie O and the rest slowed the pack down for the last minute heroics. Of course he "cut off the jam" just afer he passed the other team and before his opponent passed the Bombers and, of course, the Bombers won by a point or two. I was heart broken when I found out it was as fake as Bruno Sammartino, BoBo Brazil, and the Graham Brothers.

>>>i was heart broken when i found out it was fake.


have you recovered yet brah?

skinny mini miller anybody?

I remember Raquel Welch starring in a movie about it.

"Kansas City Bomber" was that Raquel Welch movie. If I'm not mistaken, Roller Derby used to go on the road, hust like pro wrestling.

My grand parents would take me to roller derby and wrastlin all the time 1969-1972 there abouts. The people in the audiance were the real show. Old ladies cussing and smoking cigars(you use to be able to smoke in the arena's back then)and the amount of people that actually believed it was real was unbelievable back then. I think at about every wrestling match I went to back then they would arrest about 10-12 people for trying to get into the ring to try to help the good guy. And Slick Rock thanks for sparkin the memory of BOBO Brazil his matches with The Shiek were bloodfest. My favorite was The Bull of the pampos the eigth wonderr of the world PAMPERO FIRPO!!!!!

O.K. OLD SCHOOL PRO WRESTLING!!!
I loved "rasslin'" as a kid. I grew up in the midwest so all we had was the AWA, which, alas,had the smallest stable of wrestlers.
We DID have Bobby "Brain", though.

AWA was weak. I have no respect for any association whose greatest hero was Verne Gagne. The AWA seemed to actually stress real graplling techniques more than rasslin! Old school Mid-Atlantic NWA was the shit!

I have been in the presence of Haystacks Calhoun...Las Vegas 1969...Pro Wrestling at Circus Circus...I'll never forget the midget wrestlers...