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The theory behind heel champions drawing- It all comes down to the belief that most faces make shitty champions and that the chase is a lot more exciting than the actual reign. Take Steve Austin for instance. His first several reigns were half-assed for the most part and he finally lost the belt in September 1998 because they needed to build for the chase that would come to a head at Wrestlemania 15. Up until the reign starting at Wrestlemania 17, the longest he'd held the belt at any one time would be his first reign (March 1998 to June 1998, losing to Kane). His other reigns covered in that time are June 1998 to September 1998, March 1999 to May 1999, and June 1999 to August 1999. By far, his chases for the title did better than his time as champion, partially because everyone knew he was going to win much like Hogan in the 80s once he had the belt. When you have a babyface on a chase combined with a GOOD heel champion (read- not post-quad Triple H) you make money. When you have most babyface champions, you get crap because the heel has to look overwhelmingly strong enough to challenge the defending babyface, which tends not to happen in many cases.

Current ringtone- Hey Fighting Tigers (same tune as Hey Look Me Over), the LSU fight song Other specialty ringtones on my phone- Exorcist theme Halloween theme Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream) Zelda overworld theme Super Mario Bros. level 1-1 theme Somebody To Shove (Soul Asylum)

Republicans would definitely support Dean, Kucinich, Lieberman, or Sharpton because they have no chance. (Dean's got a chance but he keeps doing stupid shit) As for the other candidates, Kerry may look good now but everyone's moved their focus (and attacks) from Dean to him, meaning his support may drop in favor of Edwards soon.

Coming soon to TSM: The Wilma the Worker SHOOT~ interview! Leave me out of it... it'll be a guest column written in the name of Langdon Alger or Rollo Tomasi.

I don't think it'll be THAT long... at least one or two people will slip up enough to get fired, possibly intentionally.

Yeah, Triple H has been telling me about this stuff he says... oh shit, never mind.

With all the popups you get there, it'll sound like something out of Rob Schneider's "Orgasm Guy". "Yeah... I was watching the new Johnathan Demme film OHMYGOD with Michelle Pfeiffer OHMYGOD and Jim Kelly OHMYGOD running a Chinese restaurant OHMYGOD and drinking Budweiser straight from the bottle OHMYGOD then they strip and play touch football OHMYGOD and then Kelly breaks out his no-huddle offense OHMYGOD OHMYGOD OHMYGOD OHMYGOD~! (computer crashes)"

Dames... I don't think that Scott Keith would have a friend of a friend come up and ask him if he was THE Scott Keith. For one, he's too big to miss if you've ever seen a picture of him. For another, I'm not sure he either has friends or friends that would have other friends.

Mike the Admin didn't know the place was down until 4PM CST, at which time he returned my IMs asking what was going on with the board. He was able to fix it within 10 minutes, saying it was something easy, but didn't say what it was.

What about the Buffalo Sabres? I thought they were completely screwed because their management looted them and that they've had a LOT of problems meeting payroll. They're certainly a logical choice to pull up stakes if the price is right.

Shit... didn't see the other thread. Feel free to close this.

For the purposes of time, only the top finisher for the WWE in each category is guaranteed to be listed. Wrestler of the Year- Kurt Angle at #2 behind Kenta Kobashi Most Outstanding Wrestler- Kurt Angle at #1 Best Box Office Draw- Rock at #5, with MMA star Bob Sapp at #1 Feud of the Year- Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle at #1 Tag Team of the Year- World's Greatest Tag Team at #2 behind Naomichi Marufuji and Kenta Most Improved- Brock Lesnar at #1, John Cena at #2, lots of other WWE guys on list Best on Interviews- Chris Jericho at #1, John Cena at #2, lots of other WWE guys on list Most Charismatic- Rock at #2 behind Bob Sapp at #1, lots of other WWE guys on list Best Technical Wrestler- Chris Benoit at #1, Kurt Angle at #2 Best Brawler- Brock Lesnar at #1, Chris Benoit at #3 Best Flying Wrestler- Rey Misterio at #1 Most Overrated- HHH at #1 by a WIDE margin over Jeff Jarrett. Most Underrated- Ultimo Dragon at #1, Spanky at #2, all but 1 on list are from WWE Promotion of the Year- WWE at #4, Pride at #1 Best Weelky Television Show- Smackdown at #3, RAW at #5. #1 was NOAH, #2 was Ohio Valley Wrestling. Worked Match of the Year- Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit 1/19/03 (Royal Rumble) at #2 behind Misawa vs. Kobashi on 3/1/03. Rookie of the Year- Zach Gowan at #2 behind Chris Sabin at #1. Best non-wrestler- Steve Austin at #1, majority of list are WWE people Best TV announcer- Tazz at #2, Jim Ross at #3, Michael Cole at #8. #1 was Mike Tenay of NWA TNA. Worst TV Announcer- The Coach at #1, most of list are WWE people Best Major Wrestling Show- Wrestlemania 19 at #2 behind PRIDE Final Elimination at #1. Worst Major Wrestling Show- Backlash at #1, Judgment Day at #2, WWE shows make up 6 of top 7. Best Wrestling Maneuver- Brock Lesnar's F-5 at #2, Victoria's Widow's Peak at #3, both behind AJ Styles' Styles Clash at #1. Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic- #1 is McMahons All Over Television, 8 of top 10 are WWE. Worst Feud- Shane McMahon vs. Kane at #1, WWE owns all spots in top 10. Worst on Interviews- Stephanie McMahon by a WIDE margin. Due to Roddy Piper's WWE run, WWE owns the top 8 spots. Worst promotion- WWE at #4, World Japan at #1. Best booker- Paul Heyman at #5, Jim Cornette at #1. Promoter of the year- Vince McMahon at #4, Nobuyuki Sakakibara at #1. Best Gimmick- John Cena Rapper at #1, WWE owns most of top 10. Worst Gimmick- Rico at #1, SHIT Rosey at #2, WWE owns top 9 spots. Most Embarrasing Wrestler- Nathan Jones at #1, Zach Gowan at #2, WWE owns 9 of top 10.

Inspector Impact is Horshu, which shows that Cornette can find talent in ANYONE if he works hard enough. As for picking up OVW tapes, I recomment stuff from early 2001, when guys currently in the WWF were there (Brock, Sheldon Benjamin, Rico, Machine (Doug Basham), Damaja (Danny Basham), Leviathan (Batista), Rob Conway, Randy Orton, etc.) or stuff from a few months back when Conway, Nick Dinsmore, Damaja, and Machine were tearing up the rings. The best tape to pick up would probably be the December 2003 one because it contains a lot of repeats of great shows from earlier in the year, such as the 20+ minute Machine vs. Damaja match with a Loser Leaves Town stip. Wait, so The Bashams are actually decent wrestlers???? Yep... They've had a bunch of good matches in OVW and that match I listed before was a present to them by Cornette... He told them "It's gotta be 20 minutes long, here's the finish, do whatever you want" and it ended up being a match that Meltzer pimped highly.

Inspector Impact is Horshu, which shows that Cornette can find talent in ANYONE if he works hard enough. As for picking up OVW tapes, I recomment stuff from early 2001, when guys currently in the WWF were there (Brock, Sheldon Benjamin, Rico, Machine (Doug Basham), Damaja (Danny Basham), Leviathan (Batista), Rob Conway, Randy Orton, etc.) or stuff from a few months back when Conway, Nick Dinsmore, Damaja, and Machine were tearing up the rings. The best tape to pick up would probably be the December 2003 one because it contains a lot of repeats of great shows from earlier in the year, such as the 20+ minute Machine vs. Damaja match with a Loser Leaves Town stip.

Not only did Vince and Linda grow up in Havelock, North Carolina, Vince was also a part of the gangs around there doing all kinds of stuff because he didn't have the personality to be "in" naturally like his brother Rod. Many of the gangs resented the military personnel, especially the black servicemen. Credit- Sex Lies and Headlocks.

LSU's got one opening on their schedule for next year, which was created when Virginia Tech pushed back their contracted visit to Tiger Stadium until 2008. VT scheduled a game against USC in its place, BTW.

Eden Prarie, MN is the home of the Sam Goody chain of music and movie stores. Buy anything at Suncoast lately?

OU's second half performance on D was good, although it takes a little shine off of that accomplishment when you realize that LSU's offense is flaky at best. Whenever they were up against a quality team like Florida, Georgia, or Ole Miss this season, they had trouble getting started offensively. The only one of those games to really break open was the second Georgia game, as LSU took over early after a Georgia turnover and never looked back. The other games were tight throughout and completely saved by LSU's defense. As for OU's offense, it certainly picked up in the fourth quarter much like Ole Miss and Eli Manning did earlier this year. At the end of the day, though, the LSU defense stopped hard drives to seal the game.

There may have been assorted fights or some objects thrown at the OU team if they were taunting, but there would not have been a full-scale riot. LSU's fans have a nasty reputation but seem to be on the way to recovery. I think they also wouldn't want to take a VERY public opportunity to get painted with the same brush as West Virginia's fans, who burn couches when they win a big game or have a near-miss against then-#2 Miami.

Believe me, the scene was nothing out of the ordinary... Know why LSU has night games if at all possible? To give the fans more time to get boozed up and rowdy before the games, not for them to be dangerous as much as intimidating. I believe the motto of the LSU tailgaters is "First we'll show you how to party, then we'll show you how to lose." The only time in recent memory that I can remember the fans being particularly ugly was in the 1998 season when everyone went in thinking "national championship" and ended up 4-7. The next year, coach Gerry Dinardo went 2-8 before being canned, at which point the players started giving a damn again and whupped SEC West champ Arkansas 35-10 to finish the season.

I hope LSU fans don't become like this after another few years of SabanBall... I'm still in fucking shock they won because I'm used to years of letdowns and I'm thinking about how they'll have tough road games in Florida, Auburn, and Georgia next year which may put a speedbump in the plans for them to repeat. I hope the rest of the fans keep that in mind and try not to turn LSU into another Nebraska, who fires a good coach for not meeting impossibly high standards on a yearly basis.

It's about 40F here in Louisiana during the day and 20F at night, although the wind-chill's a bitch at my office considering it's on the river and two buildings next door just got demolished, making the walk to work feel like a wind tunnel. Oh, BTW... 40F with 100% humidity fucking SUCKS, even though it's not below 0 like in the Great White North. Canadians and people from Idaho and Montana are talking about how cold it is at work.

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Want to see the hit of the year? Find a copy of the LSU-Georgia game and look at the hits on David Greene.

MAN, that was a Shaq-esque block by Spears on that pass.