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Just the other day, I was telling a friend how in the late ’80s and early ’90s my Christian school would go on regular field trips to the Civic Center or the stadium to see something called “The Power Team”, which was this group of muscle-bound guys who lifted heavy weights and smashed things in order to show children that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, and to not do drugs, and that Communism was bad. Being female, I loathed The Power Team, and distinctly remember using Power Team days to catch up on important Babysitter’s Club reading. ANYWAY, the point of this is that the everythingisterrible guys found an old power team video and mixed it up a little, and it’s just as funny and true as it was in 1989. If you don’t remember the Power Team, think of them as the Christian Harlem Globetrotters of destroying bricks with their hands to show kids not to use drugs.
Twenty years later, the only natural reaction to this video besides laughing at it in general is “Hey, wait just a minute now, those anti-drug crusaders are clearly on STEROIDS!” Maybe that’s why nobody really remembers The Power Team (though if someone wants to make a Christian ripoff of The Wrestler, I’m sure John Jacobs is free.)
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John Jacob Jingle Heimer Schmidt! HIs name is my name… UGH shoot yourself JJ
The Power Team! Ho-ly shit. I used to take gymnastics lessons from a guy that, in retrospect, was a total evangelical christian. We’d have overnight lock-ins and everyone would have to watch bible parable cartoons and Power Team videos. I usually sequestered myself over by the trampoline, quietly somersaulting so as not to draw attention to myself.
I think the gymnastics teacher was a pedo.
i had a signed poster on my wall. PROPS!
I totally remember them. Didn’t care much for them as I was never a wrestling / buff guy fan. They were sincere though.
I remember these guys. They would tear phone books in half and talk about how Jesus allowed them to do that.
I would always think, “Doesn’t Jesus have better things to do than grant you the strength to tear phone books in half?”
These guys actually came to my high school (high school!) and tore phone books. I’m still not sure how they got permission to proselytize in a public school though.
“Bad” kids wear black leather jackets, remember that America…
“POWER TEAM: WE SCARE GOD INTO YOU!”
Even southern metalcore bands are infatuated with this man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNu9rLKxF0
Everyone’s a hero in their own way! You and you and mostly me and you!
Dude’s head is way too small for his body. What was with the fucking “motivational speakers” back in the day? They used to force us to go see this bullshit all the time. My favorite/most hated was the guy who blew his face off with a flash grenade in Vietnam. WTF! He was proselytizing too in our public High School. I’m a Christian now but no thanks to that stuff.
I remember that guy! He never personally showed up to my school, but I had to sit through a sermon (?) of his once in class.
First off: FACE IS GROSS. It’s tragic how it happened, but fuck, I don’t wanna see it.
Second: I guess his message was “Try hard, and don’t do drugs, or your face will get melted?” Eh?
You say you’re a Christian, but you use the “F” word and the “S” word with ease. Check your heart and your bible, does Jesus really live in you???? I’m just saying, a Christian should be one, act like one, talk like one at all times if at all possible! No one is perfect and I know that, however, I am a Christian and I can honestly say that I don’t cuss. If Jesus didn’t say it, then I shouldn’t say it. After all being a Christian is being “Christ like”. Just wanted to share.
I loved the Power Team. Because they usually came during my history class and kept me from having to listen to my teacher say things that were accidentally racist.
Yeah they actually came to my school in 97, or some group of guys on steroids, then one of them ripped a phone book in half, shot it from Halfcourt, then told us about his friend who drank all night, then drove home drunk, then went out to his car in the morning and there was a childs head in the grill. He had been so drunk he did not remember any of it. True story.(according to him)
How did he know HE hit the child?
Maybe the child put his head there HIMSELF. Did I just blow your fucking mind??!
Prepare to get your mind blown: The Power Team still exists. Just last year, they did a tour of the schools in my county. They even showed up at my church one morning. I never got to actually see them, though. It’s quite odd that something so hilariously 80′s still exists.
how many 4th and 5th graders do blow?