{"id":3573,"date":"2009-10-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:08:21","slug":"captain-lou-albano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3573","title":{"rendered":"Captain Lou Albano &#8211; a colorful Stepinac alumnus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Albano the former &quot;wrestler&quot; and &quot;manager&quot; with the WWF (now WWE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20120a6571ff2970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lou_Albano_and_a_fan_crop\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20120a6571ff2970c \" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20120a6571ff2970c-150wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 150px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Died a few days ago at 76. A graduate of my high school &#8211; Stepinac ( I only just found that out).<\/p>\n<p>I remember him AND this video he made with Cyndi Lauper. Remember Cyndi Lauper? Back around the time &quot;Girls Just Want to Have Fun&quot; came out (1985),&#0160;I was briefly infatuated. Around then, <strong>Time Magazine<\/strong> had a feature on Lauper and Madonna, asking the question &quot;Who would be the bigger star?&quot;. They got it wrong, opting for Lauper. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#39;t embed the video, but if you go here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popeater.com\/2009\/10\/14\/captain-lou-albano-dead-at-76\/\"><font color=\"#800080\">Captain Lou Albano Dies at 76 &#8212; PopEater<\/font><\/a>&#0160;or here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mft3_A6qtRA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mft3_A6qtRA<\/a>&#0160;you can see it. It&#39;s fun.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s Lou Albano&#39;s interesting&#0160;bio&#0160; &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Albano#cite_note-18\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Lou Albano &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Albano&#39;s brother, Carl, taught health for 32 years at Ridgewood High School in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/wiki\/Ridgewood,_New_Jersey\" title=\"Ridgewood, New Jersey\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Ridgewood, New Jersey<\/font><\/a>, and was head of the Ridgewood High health department from 1974 until 2001.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-nyjnews.com_17-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/site\/blogs\/6a00d834525a2f69e200d83452757f69e2\/post\/6a00d834525a2f69e20120a656f3e3970c\/#cite_note-nyjnews.com-17\"><font color=\"#0066cc\"><span>[<\/span>18<span>]<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/sup> Carl Albano&#39;s students have noted that he used his brother Lou as an example of the difference between crazy and unique.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Albano the former &quot;wrestler&quot; and &quot;manager&quot; with the WWF (now WWE). Died a few days ago at 76. A graduate of my high school &#8211; Stepinac ( I only just found that out). I remember him AND this video he made with Cyndi Lauper. Remember Cyndi Lauper? Back around the time &quot;Girls Just Want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}