Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk with the "King of the
Cowboys" Roy Rogers
Photo taken at Texas' Boy's Ranch Rodeo Grandstand 1948
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My heroes
have always been cowboys. Like Gene Autry and
Roy Rogers who chased the bad guys right off the
screen and John Wayne and Garry Cooper, The Lone
Ranger, Tex Ritter and Tom Mix.
Men who know
what it means to be looked up to by an
impressionable kid, Men who want to sign
autograph books, and not deal under the table,
Men who are willing to play the game with the
people who made them heroes, Men who don't mind
putting on a white hat and saying thank you and
please.
My father,
Dory Funk Sr,. was a Cowboy who had the highest
degree of integrity in dealing fair with all who
did business with him.
Cowboys never
looked for trouble but when trouble came, they
faced it with courage. Cowboys defended good
people against bad people, They had high morals
and good manners. Cowboys were honest.
Cowboys were respected when they walked into a saloon. (They usually only drank milk)
In a
gunfight, they could outdraw anyone. In a fist
fight they could beat up anyone. Bad Guys kept
their distance.
Imagine
today a young kid looking up to Cowboy James
Storm and saying, "Daddy, when I grow up I
want to be just like him!!! (A beer guzzling
Loudmouth Bastard.)
Cowboy
James Storm, "The Bad Guy" comes to the
Funking Conservatory Sunday July 6th in the
first of back to back !BANG! TV Tapings, the
next !BANG! TV Taping featuring All Japan
Pro Wrestling's Talent Scout, Osamu
Nishimura coming Sunday July 13th.
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