they knew, he was the butt of of jokes in 80s movies, he was himself the butt of jokes on SNL, he was in movies, he was on howard stern national radio broadcast bragging about wanting to do his daughter, peeping at teen pageant kids, they just want to be just like him.

Point taken. I never listen to Howard Stern.

me either but back then he was one of the only syndicated radio shows and the clips were all over tv at the time also for being so disgusting he was even in the movie Home Alone so people all knew who and what he was. he helped start the USFL, owned a team, no secrets with him, always public