George "The Animal" Steele is slipping away.....

Aw that's sad. I figured by the fact that he's sending out tweets that he wouldn't be sick enough to be on his death bed.

The tweets in ill health could be someone else typing for him although George has kept a strong online presence the last few years on facebook. I think he enjoy saying what's on his mind (sick or not), maybe since he never got to do much talking in his career.

He had been really sick in the late 80s with the crohn's disease but was able to recuperate. He's had a few health issues the last few years and I suppose just getting worse.

Yeah but alzherimers sufferers can go on for years and years

I just took the time to read through his Twitter.

He is having terrible kidney issues. He is going through treatments to have stones surgically removed. He says that the procedures that he's going through have caused him to have two strokes.

It's a bad situation to be in. Sometimes treatments can cause side effects as bad as the diseases they are treating. When my grandmother was reaching the end of her life, she had cancer and every time her doctors would try to treat it, she would have a stroke or heart attack. Our bodies get so broken down that we can't handle treatments that are meant to help us.

It's very said, but that's what's waiting for all of us if we live long enough.

Kane is on the local sports radio channel every thursday here (cause he lives here obviously). Ive literally heard him talk about everything from the moon and back. While Ive never been a big Kane fan, Im a huge Glen Jacobs fan.

Please tell me you're referring to Red Lion, PA? That would be awesome, if so...

I am indeed. The fed was NCW (National Championship Wrestling) when it was run by "Dirty Deeds" Darren Wyse.

Makes me sad how many folks seem to be beseeching for GTAS to be replaced in HOF 4 AND harping/griping (so to speak) on the fact that he's easy to track on the secondary market/price is well below original market value/price or whatever. Yet, if he DOES die soon, ya know that shiznit is going to skyrocket immediately from all the scummy scalpers! So maybe it's best for those innumerable, latter Mattel collectors like myself to have a decent shot at the HOF packaging one @ retail in mint condition anyways, ya know? I say just re-release it. It's indeed capital for Mattel, even though Bill always said in the past how they're not gonna capitalize on death & such (in poor taste). It's still a wise decision on their part to "cash in" even if he will shelf-warm (doesn't necessarily hurt Matty themselves in that regard), as many presume, probably rightfully so, at least at the current time.

That is, until Father Time finally takes his last clasping, grasping, squeezing hold around the wheezing wind pipe of George. Plus, who knows, it could be semi-useful for Attitude Era even to some extent, albeit a bit of a stretch. I mean he never really changed in appearance/aged that much in that time frame between his prime run & random return in the late 90s with that stable. Plus, if say we ever got some crazy off-the-wall characters i.e. Human Oddities like Golga or tye-dye Kurrgan & Luna, GTAS is fitting for either era in my view! Lol that WOULD be sweet, but very low on most collectors' proverbial priority paper, not to mention Mattel's to-do list, surely so as well. GTAS will be Mine undoubtedly, no matter how so/through whatever vendor, soon enough.

Good news to hear. Hopefully he can stay healthy now.