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10 minutes into the game and I already hate NFL network's coverage.

Yes. That show drew 3,400.

Yeah. I watched it on HBO Demand, where they broke it into those four parts. It was good for what it was. I was shocked that Lee didn't go into this with the usual vitriol as I expected and just let the images do the job instead. You brought up a point with the Moore projects. Those were fairly good documentaries in that they were interesting topics but both failed to have the stinging effect that Lee's production offered. Those movies are more about one man's agenda, while I much perfered Lee's classic document format. Lee's approach was so much more effective in showing the damage instead of a fat man sticking a camera in everyone's face.

I can't wait for the randomness of this upcoming HOF ceremony as there isn't a "buzz" name out there for WWE other then Savage and Warrior that could match Hart. I figure that Rhodes is a lock but the rest will probably be random like The Shiek.

Yeah but the dude had a pretty cool catchphrase from the fans "Bichette Happens"

Since TNA is WWF 1998, improper spelling will be provided by TNA.

That's a great move, I think. Tuesday night's episode was yet another fantastic show. So much happening here but it stays so well contained without losing control. Saracen's character remains so awesome especially with the cashier scene with the girl using Smash's moves. I loved the entire Julie/Coach interaction part as well. I wonder if they'll allude to who the Panther is that wanted the 3-way. It can't be any of the principal characters and I doubt it'll play anything down the line but I'm for at least a subtle mention in passing.

Are people really bothered by that stuff so much, you would have to make the effort?

Seriously, is it that hard to find an announcer?? I'm not saying it's an easy job, but there's gotta be someone in america who went to broadcasting school and knows very little about wrestling. Gotta have the "look". Yes, an announcer needs a good look. Oddly enough, they got a pretty boy who is a decent announcer being buried for wanting a new contract doing nothing but sharing a room with Sabu in the doghouse.

Val was working heat at least 6 weeks ago. Maybe Coffey kidnapped him.

Keep in mind though, that it's possible Ando can still be a character, considering Hiro can go back and forth in time. It'd still be really far-fetched for Hiro to keep seeing Ando everytime he jumps time.

The Cryme Tyme skit was fairly low on the "idiocy" chart for that night.

Yesterday afternoon, while at work, two guys (mechanics, might I add) began to squabble over the cd player. Usually, we set the radio to our local innocuous classic rock station but occasionally, someone will slip in a cd. The two guys both had the idea at the same time and this started the agrument between Hank Williams Jr and Bright Eyes. I figure this might be the one and only time two greasy mechanics in a garage will have had a legitimate debate between those two respective musical selections. The boss, who stood beside me and watched the spectacle finally put an end to it by telling them "If you want to play old country shit, bring in Cash instead. If you want to play that teenagey whiner shit, at least get it right and bring The Smiths, dumb-ass." and promptly took the radio and set it to the top 40 pop station as a message. This brought me to this question, what's the strangest musical debate you ever witnessed?

They do. Samoa Joe. Ironic that WWE didn't fuck up with Punk but TNA? Well, Joe should have been more.

Someone still watches this show, right? Heyman is showing off the weapons for the match...as if that put just brought someone off the fence. A triple main event consisting of RVD/Sabu, Lashley/TBS and Punk/Test.

I never had a straight up job interview. It's always been "I want you to work for us" or "You should work here". I wouldn't know how to handle a real interview. I mean, I can talk with the best of them and all it really takes is making them like you. Im just glad I'll never have to do stupid job interviews and worry and fret about it.

Competitive is the word you're looking for.

Kenny would hardly be the first guy buried by a company and able to come back and make something of himself. Let's not call Ken Doane, The Red Rooster 2.0, just yet. A few years back, TBS was jobbing left and right to people like Jeff Hardy, reduced to being bit comedy character with Billy Gunn and Spike and generally put over as worthless. A looking booking and a heavy push, he was a star and people forgot about that period of time.

If they didn't put all the main event acts in one match, it's possible. Would it sell? Different matter.

That alongside "logistics"(a popular word from the old white boys club) would be instant counters to that oft-proposed concept. It'd be a nightmare situation and you'll just have corporate heads in the stands ruining the aura of the game like the Super Bowl currently is. The NCAA tournament is planned out in advance and the fans are aware of where the teams will play. NCAA usually makes an effort to keep keeps nearby for the opening rounds. What you didn't mention was if there would be time between the quarterfinals, semi's and finals. I'd have the Quarters on the opening week of December (A thursday night, friday night, saturday afternoon and saturday night-so each game gets attention), wait til' the third week of December for the semi-finals. Play the secondary bowls on new years week and actually hold off on the national title game to the second week of January. That gives the NCAA two weeks of hype, allows the proper fanbases to be able to plan the trip.

wait, you want to take 8 of the ECW wrestlers (all heels none the less, and the FBI was heels last week.) and put them all in a match, on a 3 hour long ppv with only two matches booked, and 5 more of those wrestlers on the ECW roster are in one of those matches already? I'm going to be honest with you, thats just fucking dumb. Why take 8 more heels and have them face each other? Hell why have two heels come out and destory other heels? Besides we're most likely going to get a Daivari vs Dreamer rematch for the ppv anyways. And whats the point of having all heels face each other? Are we just going to turn the FBI face when they were just on tv agasint the Hardys as heels for no reason at all? And lets just say that match happens, lets just use it as an example, then you have one heel left and thats Matt Striker. So what your saying is pretty much book a 3 hour ppv with 4 matches (maybe) and booking for those 4 (maybe) matches would actually keep some of the faces of the ECW roster off the ppv. The PPV does not need another a match with a whole lot of wrestlers involved, the ppv needs more one on one matches since NONE are booked so far. Let me explain. FBI are essentially tweeners. In fact, it's hardly much effort to make them the defacto faces against Knox and Thorne. This is textbook Heyman to have this type of segment that breaks down and rebuilds and breaks down again. It'd start with the Vixens in a strip contest (since it's a WWE staple and they love to bring these diva things out to kill time). Kelly does her usual tease which Knox stops again and Ariel gets involved which leads FBI to try to talk the girls into having a cat-fight. This naturally makes them faces for the night. A quick match between those four guys, gets interupted by Burke cutting his usual promo about how great he and Terkay are and they get into the ring. A couple minutes of this leads into Khali coming out and taking them out. This is Paul Heyman 101. How many times did we see a big man come in and clear a ring full of wrestlers? Many times. What this does is gets more wrestlers air time, allows for a brief match, puts over Burke's arrogance and Khali's size. In one segment. Trying to make an issue out of FBI playing heels to a Hardy Boys squash is fruitless. They are tweeners and it takes very little effort to make them defacto faces for that night in that hypothetical situation. How many other wrestlers are in the company that I didn't mention? Balls Mahoney and Rene Dupree (both of which are hardly used now). I included Holly/Striker/Dreamer/Sandman to open the show with the brawl. That is the entire roster unless they decide to debut new talent on the show (and we haven't seen any indication that they will). You can't count the Al Snows, CW Andersons, Shannon Moores and Danny Dorings of the roster. You want one-on-one matches but what is worth the time, really? Other then Striker/Original and Holly/Original. It'll be the same match.

Jeff won the title back last week in the ladder match.

Reminds me of the days when it was an PPV month for ECW, that sometimes you'd three straight sunday night PPV's. Of course, then it was only $29.99 and $19.99. Anyways, gimmick heavy show for Armageddon which is to be expected when you put up that many PPV's in such a short span of time. I'm not quite sure they'll use Cena as the partner, although they have teamed alot lately and they would need a cross-over star to help with the buyrate and I don't expect them to use RVD/Sabu/Punk from ECW and no-one aside from DX would help with a draw for the PPV and that just wouldn't make sense. If they don't do the obvious heel turn with Lashley, then they might put him into the match given his recent history with Booker and Finlay but it's hardly special doing that. Cena, probably is the only option and I figure the reasoning would be based off the champions of champions situation. The problem with having Cena team with Batista in a non-smarky crowd is Cena stands to get a bigger reaction and it'd hurt Batista to look less important then the invited guest.

That is the case, Leena. They really should stop calling it "ESPN Classics". Just call it, "ESPN: Alternative non-physical sports". They show games on ESPN U. That's cool, but it's not as widespread of a programing option as Classics is. The only real sport they re-air on regular basis is Boxing and it's always the same Mike Tyson marathon or really old Friday Night Boxing shows.

Here’s the problem with this entire show. It’s not the lack of matches booked. It’s a two match card and that’s hardly much different from many of the original ECW ppv events and not much different from the other 2 match Elimination Chamber headlined events either. Filling up time won’t be difficult. Have a “impromptu” tag team brawl start the show off with Sandman/Dreamer against Holly and Striker (After Striker comes out to do his usual act but brings Holly as protection). Of course, the originals come out and want Striker to shut up. This starts a 8-10 minute brawl that should serve to warm the crowd up. Toss in a “vixens” strip contest (it is a WWE produced show) most likely with Kelly wearing a santa helper outfit. She sets up a tease but the “boys” (Knox, Thorne and FBI) get in a confrontation and sets up another impromptu tag match with Knox/Thorne against FBI but is interrupted by Burke and Terkay. Making it six way and just to be truly ECW, it’s all blown apart with Khali led by Daivari smashing them up. In one segment, it would actually make it look like ECW has a tag team division. That whole segment would put over the girls, set up the three actual tag teams and give the no-name heel low-carders something to do (especially with the odd pairing of Kelly and Ariel side by side) and would eat a great deal of time. Throw in the 20 minute Hardyz/MNM, a couple promos from the EC wrestlers and the 45-60 minute EC match and that’s the whole show. Even if it’s just 3 actual matches and a run-in fest. The problem that arises in the EC match is that Punk will have to work/carry most of this match. Probably starting with RVD. They are asking Punk to keep this match from falling apart with 3 slugs and 2 spot botch machines. (Luckily, Test works well enough in these deals). That’s a tall order and the biggest problem is the finish is built to have Lashley turn heel ala TBS on Lesnar in 2002. The build has essentially been the same as that program but with Show getting screwed this time. You’ll have fans spending $40 on a 4 match card with the main event ending with a screwjob and they must hope that they really book the main event to perfection and that the crowd can stay hot throughout. It’s incredible to note that Punk is the second most likely to take the title here, just behind Lashley. The question is, how does he go out here? A fluke/cheap pin from Test or a screwy action from Heyman? I think they have to go with the latter. RVD/Lashley would be beyond horrible as a in-ring product and neither can cut a promo. Having Heyman carry it is asking for a lot. Punk, is pretty over right now and the ratings most likely aren’t going to drop enough as it is, which means, just maybe it’s time to pull the trigger and do a Punk main event push. Vince is far more high on Punk right now, then he is for RVD. What the match needs to do is have Lashley take out TBS in a big way because TBS is on the way out but needs to somehow turn TBS into a face in the process. The turn from Lashley needs to be effective enough and since it’s likely to occur mid-way through the match or at least ¾ of the way through, it needs to be well done. Heyman is likely to have a good hand in the booking of this match, so I feel somewhat secure in the chances it will be pulled off with success. Of course, I also thought WWE wouldn’t blow an obvious chance to have a classic 5 on 5 match last week but was proved wrong by their need to put DX over big time at the expense of the top heels on the show.