# RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 31, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681 "2015-07-31T22:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/1 "2015-07-31T22:35:40Z")
Another wrestling icon is gone. [Cite](http://www.tmz.com/2015/07/31/roddy-piper-dead-dies-wwe-wrestler-cancer/). _BONG_ ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/2 "2015-07-31T22:38:52Z")
“They” finally caught up to him. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/3 "2015-07-31T22:40:55Z")
Didn’t he just do an interview on the Rich Eisen show? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/4 "2015-07-31T22:44:10Z")
I wonder if he ever got more bubble gum. RIP ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/5 "2015-07-31T22:48:08Z")
Oh man. He was unique in the world of wrestling. This is sad news. Good night Roddy, wrestling heaven just got a lot more entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/6 "2015-07-31T22:59:44Z")
Awful , awful news. Was one of my favorites in mid Atlantic, Georgia , and finally the WWF. It’s a case of mind over matter, I don’t mind and you don’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/7 "2015-07-31T23:01:36Z")
I hate to hear this. Goodbye, Mr. Piper. Despite any personas you adopted, you were truly one of the good ones. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/8 "2015-07-31T23:49:47Z")
Very shocked and saddened to hear this. I genuinely liked Hot Rod. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/9 "2015-08-01T01:13:05Z")
Even Jimmy Snuka is sad. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/10 "2015-08-01T01:37:06Z")
Frogtown has gone to Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/11 "2015-08-01T01:46:54Z")
I guess he can finally take off those glasses. RIP, Mr. Toombs; you totally fucking rocked! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/12 "2015-08-01T01:56:30Z")
RIP Roddy. ☹ We’ll always have _They Live_. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/13 "2015-08-01T02:07:14Z")
I loved how he would stick his finger in his ear right before he belted someone. ---
**Author:** ![Lubricious\_Integument](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/14 "2015-08-01T02:20:17Z")
I hadn’t thought about Roddy Piper in decades. Thanks to Ted Turner, back in the early 80s I used to watch Georgia Championship Wrestling as a pre-teen living in Wisconsin. I didn’t follow pro wrestling much past age 12, but I still have great memories of those small-time matches and watching Piper. 61 used to seem old but now seems young. RIP Roddy. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/15 "2015-08-01T05:50:23Z")
He doesn’t have any more questions… he has all of the answers. He _was_ wrestling to me. The sass, the moves… the body. (I like a muscled for everyday use body… with a little bit more… no spending hours pumping need apply. Just… don’t be flabby all over. Oh, guess I chose my hubby of 20+ years for that physique.) My long-winded way of saying… Roddy was the Body who I looked for, the Mouth I listened to… . and, well, he made a few time sensitive gaffs but no-one’s perfect… not even Mr. Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/16 "2015-08-01T08:09:08Z")
He was awesome as a down on his luck wrestler on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/17 "2015-08-01T14:24:07Z")
Rowdy Roddy… I was first introduced to Roddy Piper doing color for Gordon Solie on Georgia Championship Wrestling on TBS in the late 1970s or so. The first feud I saw him was against Bullet Bob Armstrong, though he rarely, if ever, wrestled for ‘free’. So many iconic lines and moments. He made Hogan as much as Hogan, if not more. _“Just when you think you have all the answers, I change all of the questions.”_ Bye, Hot Rod. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/18 "2015-08-01T15:22:38Z")
Aw, I remember watching “They Live” on … what, Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Thee-yay-ter, or Up All Night, in better days. I read where they picked Roddy Piper to star because they liked his face. I did, too. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/19 "2015-08-01T15:26:08Z")
I’m too young to remember his career in the territories and I only vaguely remember his WWF run (him dropping the IC title to Bret Hart stands out), but I do vividly remember his WCW run when he came in as a free agent to challenge Hogan and the nWo. He was past his prime by then, but he could still put on a great show. I’m telling all my coworkers to kick ass and chew gum in his memory this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681/20 "2015-08-01T18:06:59Z")
I just watched Piper saving Gordon Solie from Magnificent Muraco and subsequently knocking out Muraco with a roll of quarters. They turned Piper in the Mid-Atlantic and Georgia territories after he was knifed by an irate fan (the magazines claimed he’d saved a group of kids from a knife wielding maniac). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rowdy-roddy-piper/726681.md?page=2)