The Bushwhackers As The Sheepherders In The WWF

April 2024 ยท 2 minute read
One of the Apter mags had a mock write-up for how they saw the WWF's first meeting with the Sheepherders. Paraphrasing, but it was something like:

"We bloody hate you Yanks and the bloody USA!!"

[WWF exec shows them a paycheck and asks them to be nice guys}

"Whoa! We bloody LOVE you Yanks the USA!!"

When I heard they were debuting, I remember watching an episode of Prime Time and telling my dad: "oh sh*t! These guys are crazy". I meant "crazy" in a bad sense, as I had seen them over in the NWA earlier in the year. Then Gorilla Monsoon finds them rolling in the hay at Busch Gardens and my dad (who had never seen them before) cracks up... thinking they're more a lovable Bugsy McGraw or George Steele kind of "crazy".

Always thought a return to heel form for the Sheepwhackers was in the cards for the WWF, somewhere down the line. But as they went in 1990, it seemed that would never be the case, as the Whackers were massively over.

That 1993 period seems appropriate. I could see them doing a "double-turn" with Doink. Doink's bananas or whatever ticks them off and they're fed up with being nice. The WWF probably would not have left them break kayfabe and say: "we're fed up with acting like clowns the past 5 years", as that would've de-valued the characters the WWF gave them.

Or go a year earlier, 1992, and have them take the place of Money, Inc as the team Jimmy Hart uses to steal the tag titles from the LOD. I liked DiBiase and (to a much lesser extent, IRS), but I never cared for their team. Have the Bushwhackers not only turn heel, but win the title? Whoa.

The LOD had left, temporarily, so the Natural Disasters could still be booked as the babyface challengers to the Whackers. As a bonus, they even had a history with the Whackers (Tugboat turning on them and their minor feud in the summer of 1991). Sure, it was a few months removed from that SummerSlam '91 match, but crazier things have happened. At the time, they were trying to use the motto "ANYTHING can happen in the WWF...and it usually does"!

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