If you came of age in Texas during the 1980s, you knew the Von Erichs. If you were like me, you loved, even worshipped, this dynasty of wrestling brothers from Denton County, despite not really knowing the first thing about professional wrestling. The Von Erichs’ celebrity transcended their sport. They were the superheroes next door, their Saturday-morning-cartoon muscles and rock-and-roll hair embodying all the action-movie cool of Reagan-era America. As a child—despite never, to my knowledge, watching an entire wrestling match—I dutifully collected each of the Von Erichs on posters that were given away by Pizza Inn during the brothers’ gloriously goofy reign as its TV spokesmen. They were walking myths to me, like Hercules or the Incredible Hulk. I knew them only as ideas:…
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