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JR's Blog: Friday Update...Buddy Rogers..Black Scorpion.."Got Sauce!"..A Masked J.R.?? FREE SHIPPING!!

Posted: Jan 16th 2010 By: CMBurnham

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Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh is a cool dude. I met Coach Harbaugh in Houston on Thursday night at the Bear Bryant National Coach of the Year Banquet. Coach Harbaugh recognized me from my umpteen years on TV with WWE, etc and unlike other celeb's who don't like to publicly admit that they have any knowledge that wrestling exists, the former Michigan QB was really down to earth. It is easy to see why Harbaugh is such a great recruiter and why he is steadily building a great college football program at Stanford.

Jim Harbaugh is bound for coaching greatness and hopefully Stanford University is fully aware of just how fortunate they are to have this rising star as their HBC.

Chris Peterson of Boise State was the "upset" winner of the Bryant Award with most fans thinking that Alabama's Nick Saban had the prize in the bag. A fellow with Peterson was a casual fan of wrestling but knew that Torrie Wilson was a Boise girl and former WWE Diva.

I shared with Coach Peterson sitting in my Miami hotel room one January 1, after broadcasting Cena vs. K-Fed on Raw, watching his Boise State team upset Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl with some of the greatest, trick play calling ever devised on a big stage. My mini bar bill that night was hefty. Chris is another unpretentious guy who is really good at what he does and has become another of my favorite football coaches.

Every year, from my perspective, the WWE HOF Induction Ceremony gets better and better. Tickets will be made available Saturday at noon for this annual event that is one of my personal favorites of the year. Every year I try to guess who will be inducted as the weeks leading into Wrestlemania roll by. I feel that every class is special and that many, many performers are deserving of this accolade. In total honesty, I still can't believe that this award was bestowed on me but I'm not complaining. I hope that those of you that are thinking about attending functions during Wrestlemania week in Phoenix will make this event a vital part of your experience.

For simple, raw emotion within the genre, nothing beats sitting in the crowd for the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony...and that's no hype.

One of my former spots officiating partners, Charlie Wilson, lives in the Phoenix area and he called me today and said WWE was "all over" the Phoenix media.

Our two BBQ Sauces and the delicious Chipotle Ketchup are selling really well in Norman, Oklahoma Homeland Grocery Stores which may lead to bigger and better things for our small, family brand in the future. Homeland is the leading grocery store chain in our state with over 70 stores statewide.

We've received many emails from folks asking when I'm going to be back on WWE TV and I'm happy to say that I'm feeling better than I have in a long time and I'm in a really positive frame of mind. I hope to be back on WWE TV in a couple of months at the most. I'm still unable to completely close my right eye and the paralysis on the right side of my face is still prevalent but I continue to heal which is the main thing.

(I could always announce wearing a mask but I think that the black hat might give me away.)

Have you taken a close look at the baseball that we have on display in our photo gallery? It belongs to Dennis Brent and has Lou Thesz' signature on the "Sweet Spot." That was quite a night when WCW/Atlanta brought in several former World Champions and we all enjoyed dinner one evening and shared some legit unbelievable stories. If any of us would have had the vision, we would have turned a camera on and let it roll that night and had a DVD that would have been awesome....and R R