[1992-03-07-WCW-Saturday Night] Public Service Announcement: Arn Anderson

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

STAY OFF OF STEROIDS.

[shoe]

Arn can read the phonebook and make it interesting.

[Kevin Ridge]

I figure they would only have good guys making these type of announcements.

[MikeCampbell]

This seems like an attempt at a thinly veiled shot at the WWF. And yeah, weird to see it from Double-A rather than a top babyface like Sting, Steamboat, Rhodes, etc.

[WingedEagle]

Arn tells people to stay off steroids. He could make just about any material compelling and believable.

[PeteF3]

I don't know if Arn was clean or not, but you definitely want somebody who at least LOOKS that way to deliver such an announcement.

[xlynwoodx]

This was fascinating. STAY OFF THE STEROIDS.

[Crazymax Jack]

Arn can read the phonebook and make it interesting.

Quoted for truth

[Guest stanley]

Should have pimped the 4 Horseman vitamins

[PhilTLL]

In addition to these two, there's also a less frequently shown Zbyszko one where he references cancer, sterility, and tendon-off-the-bone injuries, and eventually turns it into a promo. "Don't be a jerk or you'll never be at the top of your sport for 17 glorious years." And a Freebirds one where they talk about doing crazy things, but not stupid things, like standing in front of a train, or steroids. I guess cocaine and whiskey are crazy but not stupid.

[garretta]

I guess steroid abuse was one thing that faces and heels could agree was bad. I applaud WCW for having heels do these announcements. First, there were heel fans out there, whether they liked it or not. Second, it reinforced the message that even those wrestlers whose ethics you could question cared enough about their livelihood and their health not to mess with steroids, which was definitely a message children and young adults needed to hear.

 

Arn was perfect for stuff like this because he always told it straight, whether what he was saying was popular or not. I'd listen to him before people like Larry Z or the Freebirds.

[drew wardlaw]

The week after this there's a Steamboat one that's all pure babyface, then a Freebirds one where Jimmy Jam opens it up with a "yeah yeah yeah."

[dawho5]

Arn is the perfect guy for this.  Not only due to a physique that doesn't scream steroids, or the fact that he was a straight shooter.  Also, as mentioned above, Arn could make the phone book interesting.