I saved a special story for this month. Many of the USWA boys will remember this. It was summer of 1994, and in Memphis we all had a deal at the Best Western by the Memphis airport. It was a really nice hotel, nicer than most. Well, after being in hotels for the last five years my views on that have changed a little; they all look the same now. But I remember it being nicer than most. The cool thing about our deal was a hotel that should be going for $75/$100 a night just happened to have a general manager who loved wrestling.

So all the boys knew about the USWA rate; if you talked to the manager and told him you were with "the talent" you got in on the deal. OK, are you ready for this? $15 a night! That is almost unheard of. Needless to say, almost all the boys stayed there. Hell, some of them practically lived there. Now the unique thing about that hotel was we had to put up with the planes. For those of you who don't know, Memphis International happens to be a Fed Ex hub, which means many Fed Ex planes come rolling in during the evening and head back out in the early morning but for $15 a night we were willing to put up with a lot.

I still remember a worker, Reggie B. Fine, who used to stroll through the kitchen late at night and would have them make him sandwiches. It was kind of like a second home to most of us. Until that fateful "event," and I would love to give you the guys name who bombed this deal for us but I know he is still working in the business and I just can't do it.