Poor Al Snow.

When New York Times bestselling author and former professional wrestler Mick Foley came to Eastern for his lecture “Have a Nice Day,” one of the first stories he told, as well as the last story he told, were about embarrassing his “Head” totting colleague and former tag-team partner.

But luckily for those in attendance, the end and the beginning of his lecture were about two hours and 45 minutes apart-well over the one hour Foley was scheduled to speak.

An estimated 450 people came to see Foley and the University Board lectures committee made nearly $3,000 at the event that charged $5 to students and $8 to the public.

Although the UB did not quite recoup the $9,000 it spent to bring Foley, it by no means failed to get its money’s worth.

Foley was originally scheduled to lecture for one hour and then meet and sign autographs for another hour.

What Foley did was far beyond what he was contractually obligated to do. He talked for about two and a half hours then answered questions from the crowd for about fifteen minutes; all before ending the show with the famed “Montreal Suplex Story.”

The story was about an untelevized four-corner tag-team match held in Montreal between Foley and his partner at the time, Snow, Bob and Crash Holly, Farooq and Bradshaw, and Devon and Bubba-Ray Dudley.

Before the match, Foley noticed Snow wasn’t wearing anything under his singlette, the cute little wrestling outfit he wore. So Foley went over to Bob Holly in the locker room and hatched a plot.

During his match, Bob Holly and Snow were in the ring at the same time and Holly went to perform a suplex, only with a slight modification to the move. Holly gripped Snow’s singlette, pulled it to the side, exposing what Foley described as a “sparrow’s egg in a condor’s nest.”

This is just one of the many amusing stories Foley told the audience. He didn’t limit his topics to wrestling, however.

He also spoke about his books, travels, the sanitary conditions of people’s hands, charity work and even a little bit of politics – he did an impersonation of president George W. Bush making additions to the State of the Union address using various catch phrases from the world of professional wrestling.

Foley talked about the rise and fall in the popularity of professional wrestling. He talked about the type of fans it drew during the late 90s and the subsequent ebb and decline of sports entertainment’s popularity.

He basically said wrestling became a fad drawing high school aged boys and that fad has since faded away.

I will admit I was one of those fans. I would watch World Wrestling Federation (Now WWE) wrestling every time it was on my senior year of high school, but after that year I stopped watching. That’s why I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go to Foley’s show Saturday.

The determining factor in my attendance was the fact all my friends were going. I’ll readily admit I’m a loser, but even I’m not going to sit home alone on a Friday night.

I’m glad I went.

Foley was entertaining for the entire time he was on stage. I discovered Foley is one of those celebrities that actually cares for and appreciates his fans, especially his young fans.

Even if UB loses money on Foley’s show, the fans who went got more than their money’s worth.