Rant #3,653: Back On My Feet Again

Attending a WWE event in 2025 is like going to the circus when we were kids.

There's plenty of family members in the audience, and we witness acrobats, clowns, heroes and  villains, all in one ring instead of three.

About the only thing that is different is that the tickets are at least 20 times the price that they were way back when.

And yes, my son and I had a lot of fun at the WWE Raw show at Madison Square Garden last night, just like I had more than 60 years ago when my father and grandfather took me to the circus--

At Madison Square Garden.

No, today's MSG is not the same MSG I went to see the circus in way back when--it is actually the third incarnation of what is called "The World's Most Famous Arena"--and back then, I brought home a little turtle from the circus--

Which my mother promptly flushed down the toilet when we arrived home.

Last night, my son brought home something safer, a wrestling T-shirt, actually two of them ...

Something that my wife won't flush away like my mother did with that poor, little turtle.

I still cringe when I think about it.

But whatever the case, we had a fine time at the WWE show, the first one we had been to in some time.

Even the Long island Railroad station at Penn Station had changed tremendously since we were last there, but once I got my bearings, it was full speed ahead.

I havent walked up and down so many stairs since my injury, never ran so much either, but my physical therapist would have bern proud at how I navigated everything--

Holding onto the bannister, of course, often for dear life.

The show was fun, my ears are raw from all the yelling and screaming and screeching by other attendees around us, but we came out of it relatively unscathed.

Being there, in person, gave us a little time to breathe, exhale, and take it all in.

It was a nice time away from our problems, but now, it is back to reality again.

Pro wrestling isn't reality at all, but it is a nice place to visit every once in a while.

Would I want to live there, though?

I can't pin that answer down yet ...

One, two, three!