Wrestling great George “The Animal” Steele was bigger than life. He was wild, hairy, had a big green tongue, and would do crazy stunts like bite turnbuckles and spit the cotton into the crowd. He also had an ongoing feud with Bruno Sammartino and was famous for yelling “I’m not an animal, I’m a people!”
While crowds went crazy for this wild man of wrestling of the ’60?s and ’70?s golden age of WWE, behind the scenes, he was Jim Myers, a respected high school teacher and coach with a Master’s Degree. How he got into wrestling is the story behind his new book, “Animal.”