Pro-wrestler “Captain” Lou Albano died today at the age of 76. People isn’t reporting an exact cause of death, but he was hospitalized earlier this week before being sent home under hospice care.
Albano was very well-known in the ’80s playing the role — unless you’re one of those people that believes wrestling is real — of an angry manager. Really though, don’t we all truly remember Lou as Cyndi Lauper’s angry, finger-wagging father in the “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” video?
Thoughts and prayers to the family!
Aw so sad! I used to watch WWF back when it was WWF in the eighties when I was a kid. Didn’t he used to have rubber bands on his beard or am I thinking of someone else? Anyway, R.I.P. :- (
Yes, rubberbands.
R.I.P. Captain Lou. Fake or not, you made rasslin’ entertaining!
Don’t shatter my childhood fantasies, wrestling will *always* be real :'(
He was a good ol’ entertainer, such a character.
I loved him in those days. I was obsessed with WWF as a kid.
Poor thing.