Stone Cold Steve Austin Recalls Conversation With A Priest Following Austin 3:16 Promo
Stone Cold Steve Austin recalls a conversation with a priest he had following his iconic Austin 3:16 promo.
Stone Cold Steve Austin recalls a conversation with a priest he had following his iconic Austin 3:16 promo.
At the 1996 King Of The Ring, following his victory in the tournament, Stone Cold would cut his iconic ‘Austin 3:16’ promo that would go down in history as one of the most beloved promos in wrestling history. That being said, the religious aspect of the promo is one that could be something that could cause great offense, something a priest made Austin fully aware of following the promo.
In a new interview with Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Stone Cold Steve Austin spoke about the promo and recalled a conversation he had with a priest about the promo, noting that he did think it was controversial at the time.
“I did, yeah. Religious people could consider it as blasphemy. I remember walking through airports, and I would get priests and stuff like that. You could see they were because they were wearing their stuff in the airport, wearing the gimmick, You never wore your gimmick. You don’t wear Austin 3:16 shirts. If anybody wore their T-shirt to the airport, dude, you’re a mark. You can wear the sh*t in the building. But anyway, so I would be signing autographs for preachers and stuff like that and the airports. I said, ‘Man, you ain’t mad about the Austin 3:16?’ [They said] ‘Oh no, Steve, it’s okay. But at the time, could it be construed as [controversial]? Yeah, but certainly it was by some.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Austin spoke about his iconic theme music. You can read more about that here.
Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s)
