It became such an “epidemic” at Stephen F. A solo streaker even interrupted the 1974 Oscars, in an incident that some say was a pre-planned way for the award show to grab the zeitgeist, like a stadium security guard grabbing a nude interloper.ĭuring streaking’s 1974 peak, masked students from Cal Poly State University run into the Cigar Factory restaurant in San Luis Obispo, CA Bettmann/ // Getty ImagesĪround this time, streaks became more organized, involved more people, and transformed into spectacles. Streaking made the cover of Life magazine. People love attention!īut 1974 was the year that streaking went from a countercultural campus joke on The Man to full-on craze, like pet rocks or Slinkies. Observers can’t pinpoint exactly why young adults suddenly decided to take their clothes off and run around in nude groups, but it could have been due to several factors: changing attitudes toward sexuality and nudity, generalized distrust of authority and institutions, and the fact that streaking tended to garner a lot of media attention, which begat more streaking. He would go on to become a doctor and, later, a congressman.īy the 1960s, American college students would rediscover the Adamite joy of gathering in groups and running naked through public places, much to university administrators’ chagrin. Though his motivations were lost to time, he was suspended for a semester after being arrested for running nude through his college town in 1804.
Historians say Quakers-Quakers!-revived the practice in the 17th century, protesting the Church of England and often urging onlookers to repent.Īmerica’s first streaker was a Washington & Lee (then called Washington College) student named George William Crump. During the 15th century, the Adamites protested the Holy Roman Empire’s buttoned-up morality by running naked through their Bohemian village, as Adam and Eve would have intended, if Adam and Eve, like the Adamites, had regarded monogamy as a sin. Running through a public space fully or partially nude has a long history with motivations to match the era. And it’s a reflection of how seriously we take our own rules, and ourselves. It is running’s wacky cousin, its quirky neighbor.
Just as an asthmatic pug is the same species as a greyhound, so too is streaking in the same species a Kipchoge marathon. Yes, streaking-the kind people first think of when you talk about run streaks, and the silly counterweight to the emotional heaviness of giving your all. If you watch this again, prepare for secondhand embarrassment.A streaker warms up the track before the final of the men’s 100m at the 2017 World Championships Antonin Thuillier/AFP/ // Getty Images As Taker approached the ring on his motorcycle, Durst and a team of dancers invaded the ring. The Undertaker’s music at the time was Limp Bizkit’s Rollin, so Fred Durst and the gang were invited to perform the song live before The Undertaker faced The Big Show and A-Train in a handicap match. A modern Undertaker entrance at WrestleMania is basically the Super Bowl halftime show. The Undertaker’s older entrances are all great (except for the one below), but the WWE has really raised the bar with pyrotechnics in recent years. Michaels kicked out after a tombstone, Taker kicked out after Sweet Chin Music, then caught Michaels flying off the top rope for a final tombstone. The Undertaker went to 17-0 with an epic win over Shawn Michaels in 2009, and two of the greatest wrestlers of all time put on a show in a match that had everything. We’ve gone through each of Taker’s victories and picked out our favorite moments in preparation for 22-0. Since debuting at WrestleMania VII against Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, the Dead Man has delivered some of the greatest matches in WWE history on the sport’s biggest stage. The Undertaker will put his 21-match winning streak at WrestleMania on the line against Brock Lesnar Sunday night in New Orleans.
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