Ahh, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The annual American tradition of oversized balloons haunting the streets of New York City while a bunch of Broadway singers and dancers praise a giant floating Garfield like some helium-infused god. And us as well, I suppose, as the parade is nearing its 100th year of being in action. America has long held this event as the official ushering of the Christmas holiday season while stuffing themselves into a food coma. While mom or Grandma is in the kitchen sweating over a twenty-pound bird, the kiddies watch their favorite pop culture icons wave at a crowd and the TV on elaborate floats. You know, like the Sesame Street gang, Ninja Turtles, Paul Bearer with his urn of death…

FUCK YEAH.

Honestly, who would have ever thought that the WWF Superstars would ever make an appearance at an event like this, is sort of beyond my own logical train of thinking. But I’m sure as shit was happy to see it when it happened. Although it wasn’t an official WWF float, but a float for the New York Daily News named The Big Apple, which would explain all the randomness happening all over that thing. Including a Hockey-Mask wearing Jason who was actually a columnist for the paper; or THE SLAMMER as he called himself, and was only known under that pseudonym.

The British Bulldog, Razor Ramon, Lex Luger, Doink, Dink, Paul Bearer, and the Undertaker appeared as special guest stars and they all look they’re having one hell of a time- well, minus the Undertaker who stayed in Kayfabe because god-forbid we see the dead man crack a grin!

I mean, shit, they look they’re having such a good time that I’m willing to bet that urn was filled with vodka. Knowing the stories behind the mat these days, it’s probably not that far off. Which is pretty hilarious. Kind of like little Dink there being almost completely out of sight because of some giant baseball bat and the star emblems of his fellow athletes.

The wrestling era of 1994 was a pretty dim one looking back as the once premier agent for wrestling who had body slammed all of its territory competitors, was fighting for their lives against WCW, who was quickly becoming the bigger and badder boys of nationwide wrestling. And let’s face it, the WWF was still stuck in its Superhero era at the time with really shitty gimmicks for their “superstars” like The Dentist, Repo Man, and here’s a deep cut, Duke “The Dumpster” Droese. They were pretty piss poor characters and honestly very few wrestlers were keeping the company afloat and people watching like, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, and Razor Ramon of course. So, it’s not crazy I guess that Vince McMahon would throw his athletes into a Macy’s Parade for a little extra exposure to kids and parents since that was the primary target audience at the time.

Either way, it’s a refreshing break from Big Bird and Barney spotlights. Speaking of, right behind our wrestlers, is a behemoth of that annoying purple dinosaur ready to devour little Dink at any second.

For your nostalgic enjoyment, here’s an upload of the entire 1994 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! But if you want to just skip to Razor Ramon oozing machismo all over 34th street, the timestamp starts at 1:40:00 in.