Art Sandusky

Hall, Nash, Hogan to start at No Way Out in Feb 2002 Hogan is kicked out after WM turn, X-Pac "rejoins" Nash is still on the shelf wrestling wise but making apperances Big Show gets added just to have a "big man in ring precsence" I guess Hall is fired after "Plane Ride From Hell" Flair turns heel in May I believe and announces Booker T to join the nWo for no apparent reason. Booker's tagteam partner Goldust is in angle of trying to join. New sherrif in town, Kevin Nash brings a returning Shawn Michaels into the nWo to replace Scott Hall. A week later Shawn kicks out Booker, obstensibly to keep Booker a face and continue BookerDust vs nWo angle going This would start a gimmick of Show and Pac having to "win" matches in order to stay in the nWo. Don't remeber if X-Pac was still a member by the end of it though, but one week Show would lose a match and HBK gave him some Sweet Chin Music for it, though he was still in the nWo as HBK said it was "tough love" They actually played up this angle when Shawn turned face a few weeks later where Show wanted to have a face-to-face over the SCM Then the infamous night Nash comes back, only to tear his quad! HBK cuts the final (ever?) nWo promo advising Triple H to accept membership in the nWo (he was a "free agent" at this point) Next week on Raw Vince dissolves the nWo and Eric Bischoff, ironically the brainchild of the gimmick in the first place, debuts as the new Raw GM That I believe was the week before the July 02 PPV where Triple H would "make his decision" between Raw and Smackdown Steve <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 2002 was so the worst post-Attitude year. The product is lightyears better now.

I prefer a straight-up match like the one-on-one WWF 2000 main events were, but if I had to pick a gimmick match, it'd be an Iron Man as HHH/Rock did it. EDIT: Niskie nailed it on the head. I Quit is the shit.

You look about what I expected.

Yeah, the Britney one's way sexier.

People need to post pictures for a poll.

I have to be honest and say that I REALLY want this to become the highest-grossing documentary of all time. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is it that good? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, think about it. I would like to see it become #1 as well, but more for the reason of it being a pure documentary about something fascinating like the other animals and areas of the planet.

Compare the economical climes of the time. Gas was a quarter a gallon at most, we were only beginning to gear ourselves (foolishly, I say) towards a service economy, and we had the extreme motivation of "Communism = end of the world as we know it" being the feeling of the day by the vast majority of the population. The energy crisis, Vietnam embarassment, a grown generation having faced no real hardships, and Watergate changed everything within a short span of time. EDIT: The last vestiges of the NASA of old were in the form of the Viking probes, Skylab, and the Pioneer program. Nothing particularly new or innovative came down the pipe after that.

I meant there's no excusing this because such financial power translates into mighty lobbies and interest groups. We're cavemen compared to Europe these days almost, because they've had the equivalent of $5 a gallon since as far back as 2001.

I don't get it. This is the prime directive of every criticism of him since the Angle storyline in 2000, and is used to trace such behavior back to Jericho's arrival in friggin' 1999. So what's the outrage?

Finally they're going for one of the new cool rectangular indoor stadiums now, like Ford Field, Reliant Stadium, the Jets stadium that got axed I believe, etc.

It's for the greater betterment of our species.

Which is a shame, because I always thought that was always underrated and a cool, true cross-country rivalry between the #1 and #2 cities in the country.

Pff, whatever. I didn't care a bit when Peyton Manning was up for it, and was glad to hear on Sportscenter that night how he didn't win. It's a farce because every year they show guys who were really superlative but it's limited to one or two puff segments to remind people there's life outside of the big conferences and mid-majors. Only guys from big schools are ever considered, and you have stuff like the press all watching one guy in a single game so he can "make a case for a Heisman Trophy," and other shit like being a west coast player hurting your chances. Fuck that shit. It's a fuckin' farce to even try and label a player of the year out of 117 schools in the first place, but at least pick the guys who really make their squad stand out and were seemingly the whole team. Eli Manning in 2003 was the closest thing we've had to this in a good while. Other considered guys were on teams that would have done just fine without them. Is it the Most Efficient Cog In The Machine trophy? No, it's The Whole Fuckin' Machine (also known as the Heisman) trophy.

Yeah, anything I say I'd do would probably go out the window in the name of maximizing the financial possibilities.

I didn't bother reading the rest of the thread, I'm just sick of seeing these people being called hippies. They're probably a bunch of overweight middle-aged normal people with too much time on their hands and not enough brains.

I know where you're coming from, because I loved how the Jericho/Michaels match at Wrestlemania XIX was lit. I'm just too damn used to having a big screen or elaborate set of some kind in the background.

A buffalo chicken calzone from where I work, loaded to the point of bursting with cheese and buffalo chicken-y goodness were it not for the holes in the top. Cutting that thing open was like watching some fat dude's guts spill out. Mmmmmmmmmmmm, so fucking good.

Where I live, shrimp is king. Fuck a lobster.

I'm scared of the day when they don't actually play the games anymore, instead yelling at the other team and posing and primping constantly while saying how their contracts are bigger. I'm seriously growing ill whenever I watch major sports coverage of any kind anymore. And people wonder why NASCAR is becoming a big thing, it's because you don't have Drew Rosenhaus saying Tony Stewart feels Robbie Gordon is disrespecting him. It's the fucking NFL, shit's happening way too fast when you're on the field to care about whether you like the coach or not. You're too busy trying not to get killed by the linebackers bearing down on you. Fuck the media, and not just because of that, but because watching Packers games is going to be a mute-only affair this year. It's a team sport, and all they can do is talk about one guy, as if he plays offense, defense, and special teams all by himself. Fuck that noise.

Since the draft is picking the best college players, the Heisman winner should actually say a great deal about their ability to play on a higher level, since they've (according to the award) beaten out every other player in the country for the award. And any time someone uses the "it's just for the NCAA" argument, they forget the many great NFL players who were Heisman winners. If the award wasn't such a farce each year it might actually become a more consistent way of seeing someone's NFL mettle.

Raiders/Chiefs is pretty intense. I saw an old NFL Films show once that had the players talking about the dirty tactics they'd use on the field once they got their mitts on the other team.

Last game of the season, sucka. RIVALRY WEEK~

Yes, and you can't front on that.

Professional wrestling (in America anyway) will only grow more and more showy, so such a setup is possible at an indy show, but not in a national/global promotion. It's 2005, the fans would wonder why there's no more indicators of that. Besides, if a match sucks, I want some fun stuff to look at otherwise.

Rob Conway will never succeed because he has a very pinched-looking face. It's not something you want to see a lot of. Not that he or WWE can help that, it's a subconscious thing.