14 Athletes Who Appeared At The Super Bowl And WrestleMania
5. Russ Francis
Super Bowl: XIX WrestleMania: II Former San Francisco 49er Russ Francis has the unique distinction of being raised in the world of professional wrestling before playing professional football, then transitioning to wrestling after his gridiron days were done. The son of wrestling promoter Ed Francis, Russ Francis won a ring in Super Bowl XIX. He would join his colleagues in the NFL versus WWF battle royal at WrestleMania II, making it to the final four before he was eliminated by the Hart Foundation. While that would be Francis only involvement with WWF, he would go on to compete for the AWA and NWA after retiring from football, even holding the NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championships once with his brother.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
