{"id":101,"date":"2005-07-23T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"rowdy_roddy_brings_pit_to_falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/23\/rowdy_roddy_brings_pit_to_falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowdy Roddy brings Pit to Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/webapp\/sitepages\/content.asp?contentid=118810&amp;catname=Local%20News&amp;classif=News%20-%20Local\">Saturday, July 23, 2005 issue<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/media\/rowdy_piper.jpg?w=640\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Wrestling legend \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rowdy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Roddy Piper, right, plays along with a young fan during Piper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pit Friday on Clifton Hill. They were joined by announcer Bobby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Brain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Heenan.<br \/>\nPhoto: Corey Larocque, The Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rowdy Roddy brings Pit to Falls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By JOHN LAW Review Staff Writer<br \/>\nLocal News &#8211; Saturday, July 23, 2005 @ 02:00<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NIAGARA FALLS \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; Hundreds of fans helped turn Clifton Hill into Piper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pit Friday.<\/p>\n<p>With his trademark kilt and black leather jacket, wrestling legend \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rowdy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Roddy Piper hosted a humorous edition of his famed talk show outside the WWE store, even plucking a young fan from the crowd to join him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done a lot of Piper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pits, and I thought to myself, maybe one of you folks would like to do one,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he asked the pumped up crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The WWE hall of famer and his co-host, donning a Hot Rod T-shirt, traded barbs with veteran announcer Bobby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Brain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Heenan before heading inside to sign autographs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/webapp\/sitepages\/content.asp?contentid=118810&amp;catname=Local%20News&amp;classif=News%20-%20Local\">read the rest of the article<\/a> to learn more about what Rowdy Roddy Piper did in Niagara Falls and who was with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Saturday, July 23, 2005 issue of the Niagara Falls Review: Wrestling legend \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rowdy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Roddy Piper, right, plays along with a young fan during Piper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pit Friday on Clifton Hill. They were joined by announcer Bobby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Brain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Heenan. Photo: Corey Larocque, The Review Rowdy Roddy brings Pit to Falls By JOHN LAW Review&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}