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  1. flyonthewall2983
    Things like this always remind me of the piece Chuck Klosterman wrote called "That 70's Cruise" about attending one with Journey, REO Speedwagon and Styx.
  2. flyonthewall2983
    I think Ellering had it worse with his horrible ventriloquism.
  3. flyonthewall2983
    Well that was lame.
  4. flyonthewall2983
    Vince may have let it slide for more personal reasons. In Bret's book, he said that weekend of the show, Shane made a rather rude gesture towards his wife and had a heated confrontation from what I remember reading.
  5. flyonthewall2983
    I was thinking of something along the lines of a home invasion gone wrong. I wasn't aware of Chris' prior domestic abuse charge, so that's what made the most sense at the time.
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    That happened too. On the DVD, Trips goes off on the guy who had the poster.
  7. flyonthewall2983
    I seem to remember hearing he was their neighbor.
  8. flyonthewall2983
    When did that happen? And what was the context? I must have missed it. One good example would be him bitching out the one contestant on Tough Enough, for basically being a Goldberg fan.
  9. flyonthewall2983
    Was there a reason why they put Boss Man on the shelf for so long? I seem to remember he came back on television that October or something. Was it just to maximize Nailz as a heel, or something behind the scenes?
  10. flyonthewall2983
    That'd be a nice cross-over. Funny how people keep calling it the spinner belt when that particular function of it has been done away with for awhile.
  11. flyonthewall2983
    Because he thought it might have went down as it did isn't reflective of what everybody felt.
  12. flyonthewall2983
    Was that what the beginning of The Natural was based on?
  13. flyonthewall2983
    Could just be they changed their mind on turning them heels, and didn't air it because of that.
  14. flyonthewall2983
    Why was that "uber-creepy"? I thought it was a classic "heel marries/ dates authority figure/ powerful woman heel". I loved Eddie as much as the next fan, but the idea that his widow who's now an actress can't participate in storylines because of her "sainted real marriage" is silly. Would it be creepy if she actually remarried? Or would it only be creepy if she actually married someone in wrestling, separating her from the thousands of people who meet spouse number two at work? You bring up several good points, and I guess in hindsight it wasn't so bad but at the time it just felt wrong. It felt to me, like they were trying to erase Eddie from history. They made up for it when Vickie did the frog splash at WM last year, and when Cena mentioned him in that promo on Raw a few weeks back. And as for the prevailing theories, Bix, I'll go with number one. Number two seems pretty believable too, and I'd be lying if I said that possible angle wasn't floating around my head, however briefly. I'll say it again, the timing was what really made the show look as bad as it did to those who attacked it for being salacious. And given the timing, everyone must have been thrown into the first stage of grief, denial. As for it being a ratings ploy, again because of the timing I can't see it. My overwhelming feeling was this caught everybody in the headlights, and they just did what felt natural. If what felt natural included trying to boost ratings by talking about him, then so be it. Emptying the arena and showing clips from the DVD and entire previous matches was the only thing different, I'm sure done in part because of the criticism of the two other shows they did like this. Also, It wasn't really national news until the following day, ending up being a top story on all the cable networks by the end of the week. I'm not defending all they did to deflect the negative attention this story was bringing to bear, but I still feel the show was done with good intention.
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    This quote is in relation to the controversial show aired the night everything was coming out. Part of me believes the blowback WWE received from this (not the actual incident itself) is karma for some things they did in the aftermath of Eddie's death. Specifically the night Orton trashed the car on Smackdown!. A good runner-up would be the uber-creepy angle where Edge and Vickie were "married". The timing of it all is the biggest give-away for my theory. This forced what was an otherwise canned show to think on it's feet, with hours to spare when the news started to break. But as for the actual show itself, I'll always give credit to them for doing the classy thing despite (and later to their peril) not being 100% certain of the facts. Vince opening the show in the ring of the empty arena was quite moving.
  16. flyonthewall2983
    I was always confused about this, was it supposed to set up a feud between the two, or just a lame way to retire Slaughter?
  17. flyonthewall2983
    It's a shame they didn't give that gimmick to a guy that could really work. It would have been a scarier package because it would have made him more of a threat. Same goes for Papa Shango.
  18. flyonthewall2983
    That whole part of society is something I thankfully will never get. I would imagine there are a lot of horror stories the Divas past and present could tell. The last time I was fairly close to the ring at a house show, a whole line of pervs lined the front row with cameras to snap shots of the women. I think RAW came to shoot there next year, and a rather ugly middle-aged couple was quite obviously ogling the female ring announcer whose name I can't remember for the life of me.
  19. flyonthewall2983
    How so?
  20. flyonthewall2983
    Sid and Harvey doing that little promo to the camera during the match is still fun to watch.
  21. flyonthewall2983
    Watching it at the time I wasn't shocked by the blood, but looking back it's surprising they did as much color that day as they did. Although Flair later told the story about McMahon chewing him out for doing it.
  22. flyonthewall2983
    This was Superstars? I could have sworn it was part of a USA special leading into WM.
  23. flyonthewall2983
    I smell a new thread. "Unintentionally offensive things said by announcers".
  24. flyonthewall2983
    Did Phil do his patented "mic to forehead" manuever?
  25. flyonthewall2983
    Someone had a genius sign last night. "Sin 'Enough' Cara".
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