10. The Jackass Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkw3xaxdjGc My favorite Terry Funk promos are the ones where he tells a story from his personal life. His story is guaranteed to be strange, rambling, and tangentially related at best to the point he's trying to make. In this promo, he graphically recalls the death of his beloved childhood pet -- a jackass -- at the hands of his father. It seems the poor beast had broken a leg and was no longer fit for work on the Double Cross Ranch, and therefore had to have its brains blown out. Terry concedes, to my surprise, that the NWA shouldn't literally murder Ric Flair for being injured, but should put him out to pasture. He also literally prostrated himself before Jim Ross in the apparent belief that like Vince McMahon, all babyface announcers are secretly bookers. Incidentally, does anyone else think that Terry Funk was just delighted to get away with saying jackass on television all the time? Funkism: "I loooooved that jackass!"