A couple more things that are important to note:
- It was orginally advertised as a Starrcade rematch between Nash and Goldberg, but they ran some stupid angle where Goldberg was taken into police custody after Elizabeth accused him of stalking her. Goldberg was released when it was revealed that Liz was lying, but only in time to run into the Georgia Dome after the fingerpoke went down to get beaten up by the nWo in front of his home town.
- This aired opposite of the pre-taped RAW where Foley won his first WWF Championship. Eric Bischoff instructed Tony Schiavone to spoil the results, which included telling the audience that Mankind was going over. This backfired, as a ton of people switched over to RAW to watch the big upset. The fingerpoke did occur in an unopposed overrun, after 11:00, and did pull a strong quarterly rating. However, they managed to give the large viewing audience the exact opposite of what the WWF did that night - a shameful, more-of-the-same conclusion that helped to decimate the credibility of their top championship, and their main event scene, to a certain extent.