Finished my 1967 Topps Football Set

[LuckyLarry]

last card #82 Wahoo MaDaniel RC

Wahoo McDaniel a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American, football player, and pro wrestler. A troubled teen, but was accepted into the University Of Oklahoma, where he would skip classes and get caught drinking. Played for the Oilers, Broncos, Jets, and finally chosen by the Dolphins in the 1966 expansion draft. In 1968 he got into a fight with two cops (knocked both of them out) and traded to the Chargers. He retired from pro football before playing any games for San Diego.

He wrestled during the off season and then full time after he retired from football. Highlights include a “table-leg” match with Ric Flair. Flair hit Wahoo on the head with a table leg, but unfortunately the table leg still had a nail in it, and Wahoo really got hurt. Flair quickly pinned Wahoo and regained the heavyweight title. Wahoo retired from wrestling in 1996 and is a member of the WCW Hall of Fame.

Married five times, Wahoo died from kidney failure awaiting a transplant in 2002.