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How Dwayne Johnson's Forgotten Football Career Prepared Him for Superstardom

Go ahead and pretend otherwise, but at some point in your life, I know professional wrestling mattered to you.

Whether it was Bruno Sammartino in the '60s, the generation of Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant or the WWE's fabled Attitude Era, Vince McMahon and his programming left a mark on you—likely during your formative years—for better or worse (cue me as a 12-year-old F-5'ing my younger sister onto my childhood bed and my mom walking in and freaking the eff out).

Maybe your attention slipped away from it in your early teenage years, upon discovering the fighting is "fake" and determining the soap-opera storylines are too, well, soap opera-y (I do not belong to this group and still love wrestling for all its ridiculousness and quirks).