Update: Dusty Rhodes’ Daughter Campaigning For Emmys Reference

UPDATE: As noted earlier here on the website, there is a push online for Dusty Rhodes to be included in the Emmy Awards’ memorial for those in the industry who have passed away. Rhodes’ daughter Teil has been pushing for the campaign on Twitter, posting the following:

Every year there is drama over @TheEmmys memorial spot but Dusty Rhodes was a pioneer in ppv tv and one of cables first stars. #fact

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 5, 2015

My father deserves to be a part of that tribute. Say what you will about wrestling but he spent decades entertaining people on television

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 5, 2015

Thanks for all the rt love. Dream always taught me you can never aim too high. You guys are the best #DustyRhodes #EmmyforDusty

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 5, 2015

So often wrestling or sports entertainment is overlooked by Hollywood despite the millions of tv viewers in brings in weekly. (1/2)

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 6, 2015

(2/2) wrestling is a huge part of American pop-culture and Dusty contributed to that legacy as a writer, producer and performer @TheEmmys

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 6, 2015

We aren't campaigning for an Emmy award, only an inclusion in memoriam part of the telecast. His lifetime achievement award was the WWE hof

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 6, 2015

#DustyAtEmmys

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 6, 2015

ORIGINAL: Teil, the daughter of Dusty Rhodes, wrote on Twitter that she wants her father memorialized by the Emmy Awards next year.

She wrote: “Every year there is drama over @TheEmmys memorial spot but Dusty Rhodes was a pioneer in ppv tv and one of cables first stars. #fact My father deserves to be a part of that tribute. Say what you will about wrestling but he spent decades entertaining people on television. Thanks for all the rt love. Dream always taught me you can never aim too high. You guys are the best #DustyRhodes #EmmyforDusty”

@JonStrauss_ @TheEmmys absolutely Georgia Championship Wrestling was a cornerstone of TBS and it’s early programming

— Teil (@TeilMargaret) August 5, 2015

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