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CMLL's Los Ingobernables (Rush, La Sombra & La Mascara) rocking an awesome look for their entrance the other day:

St. Louis Rams. Balls of Steel. EDIT: Multiposting raining balls everywhere.

One Man Gang at SICW tonight:

They just announced that Gary Wolfe is going to do the halftime show for the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.

No. You do not get sympathy when the fucking Lombardi Trophy is held by your team. No no no no no.

I've always said If he didn't die young he would be looked at like we look at Pauly Shore. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become Pauly Shore.

Davy Richards on a pole inside of a steel Davy Richards where if Davy Richards loses Davy Richards has to leave town for 30 days while Davy Richards wears a tuxedo and Davy Richards has to get a Davy Richards miner glove and Davy Richards has to wear a blindfold.

We've really been blessed this year with a ridiculous amount of great matches. Shield/Wyatts I is the MOTY and one of the greatest matches in WWE history. The Shield were amazing for a lot of reasons, but the best part was them bringing the WWE/Dragon Gate hybrid style into our lives. These matches really evolved WWE storytelling. The great Daniel Bryan push began not at SummerSlam when he beat Cena, but when he became the first person to get a pinfall victory over The Shield. This match was the best WWE Dragon Gate match and the peak of a style. I broke this match down for my friend's blog here. One of the amazing things about this match is how these units weren't around for very long. The Shield were around for two years or so. The Wyatts were in the WWE for about six months at this point and didn't have too many six-man's in NXT. The feud also didn't have too much meat to it other than, "YOU COST US A MATCH, WYATTS!" I've watched this match maybe 10 times at this point. They do so many little thing in this match to make it special. It starts right from the beginning, when all six guys are in the ring. Dean (who has been having issues with Reigns) shows some of his inferiority complex by needing to jaw-jack with Bray. And Bray starts screaming "LOOK AT HOW THEY TREAT YOU BOY!" at Dean. This naturally sets The Lunatic Fringe off more, while Reigns and Seth scream at him to hold him back (for whatever strategy they have). And then it ends with Dean being the first to jump, creating the first brawl. There are so many awesome little things in this -- little fish-hooks and beard pulls and the like. But the structure is great. It's a three-part story. The first is about the evenness between the two teams. All six guys have great segments (with Seth Rollins stealing the show with his insane dives). The final part of this sequence is amazing with all these great dives -- with Harper doing his awesome tope for I believe the first time, too. Right after the dive sequence, Reigns almost pins Rowan with a roll-up. It's a great near fall. If the match ended right there, I think it still might be the MOTY. That's how great the first sequence (and the bulk of the match) is. They also wisely give the crowd and awesome break here with all six guys laid out. I love little segments like that. It's such an awesome breather. The WWE has really toned down the table sports lately, which makes them, when they happen feel Sabu-in-ECW level special. In lesser matches, they get to the table right away. But in this, they WORK towards it. It's teased a few times, most notably when Dean comes running in off-screen to take Harper and Bray out before they powerbomb Rollins through the table. Dean and Bray then end up in the crowd (which is the great whodunnit that led to the next plot point in The Dissent Of The Shield stuff) before Bray returns. Right when this happens, Rowan hits a fallaway slam on Reigns, who has to roll out onto the floor. People wanted to bag on Rowan when he first came in because he's a big dude without indie cred. He's been a good clobbering beast from the jump and was REALLY great here. His main purpose in all The Wyatt stuff is to be the workhorse who takes the punishment while Harper is the equalizer and Bray is the killer. But Rowan finally -- FINALLY -- wins a segment, and does so against Roman f'n Reigns. They then put Rollins through the table, which ends the second act. Even the table bump is artistically impressive. In the history of table bumps, it's nothing. I'd imagine Rollins went through more insane stuff in the third match of the night in some dumpy indie show. It's like 1/1000000th the insanity of Foley's bump, and a fraction of early Sabu. I don't even know if it's as crazy as the table bump in Flair/Funk. It's a basic (and I'm not dismissing it -- it's still a huge bump) back pump. But Harper and Rowan really use their size to make it look bigger, and everything in this match has been so amazing and brutal looking that the crowd just eats it up like it's the most insane move of all-time. I think after the second act, if they were to figure out a way to end it right here, it's definitely the MOTY. The third arc, though is so amazing. They spent the past two years making Roman Reigns near unbeatable. They played up that the first time he was pinned was in an 11-on-3 match on Raw. He singlehandedly won a Survivor Series match. He set the record at The Royale Rumble for most eliminations. He won countless matches with last-second spears for The Shield. And now he's in a 3-on-1. Can he do this one more time? They put all of that narrative capital into Roman for a pay-off at some moment in time, and this is it. (In a way, this reminds me of the Art Barr/Eddie vs. El Hijo/Octogon match from When World's Collide (which might be the greatest match of all-time in wrestling history). El Gringos won the first fall. In the second, they eliminated Santo early, so Octogon had to somehow miraculously keep the match alive in order to save the lineage of Mexico's most beloved icon.) The best in this is when Bray has Roman set up for Sister Abigail. This might be the best facial expressions in WWE history. Bray's near arrogant when he's about to hit the move. Roman powers out and has an awesome Ultimate Warrior kinda face as the crowd rallies behind him. Bray has this perfect look that's shock/fear and amazement at the same time. He's downright in awe that Roman can do this and blinks for a second before he headbutts Roman. And THAT's awesome, and maybe the most brutal in the tiny executions of violence they pepper in this thing. In most matches, Roman powers out. But even in this, he has to fight. It's one of my all-time favorite wrestling segments. This is legitimately just a fantastic performance from six amazing workers. A+. I really would love to have a "Behind The Music" type thing with whoever put this match together. I really think it might be my favorite wrestling match of all-time.

How quickly we forget Trent Dilfer has a ring.

I think this post is pretty spot on, but I'm not sure we can refer to Lawler's commentary as 'borderline' racist, unless borderline now means 'totally and completely'.

I'm here. I have no idea what happened to my Panthers, because ye gods, that was ugly no matter how you looked at it.

Patera and Sheiky waiting outside the principal's office? Sheik is there to audition for Hüsker Dü.

Brian - you do realize that not all Dolphins fans look alike right?

I've always said If he didn't die young he would be looked at like we look at Pauly Shore. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become Pauly Shore. "What was that name you and the boys had for me back at the Comedy Store, Gordon?" "I...I don't know, Pauly." "Say it. SAY IT." "Wheez...zel. Pauly Weasel."

You sons of bitches get your head out of you fucking ass and tackle somebody. Play with a sense of fucking urgency. You're making Aaron Rodgers look like the fucking GOAT (he may very well be that anyway but shut up). I hate all of you. Try not fucking up for five seconds you assholes

I hate football. I hate this. I just yelled out "FUCK ME" in my house, where my mother is. Fuck this.,

So sorry, DVDVR Panthers Fan Club. I'm sure you feel like this right now.

Put Tracy Smothers in a ring with 8 sheep

ConAir has Colm Meaney so it wins. And this line Guard Falzon: It smells like someone shit in your mouth. Pinball: He told me he loved me.

I am 39, overweight, and not as pretty as I used to be. However, I am still alive, which is saying something.

or, alternatively, don't ever, ever, ever, ever (this continues for an hour) tell someone you'll wait for them, even if you would.

the best part of the Randy Orton RKO thing is whenever they show "him" running like a DOOM enemy.

I know that there are technically better WWE matches, but I fucking loved Big E v Rusev.

"Hello everybody, Jim Ross here with Missy Hyatt...."

They really should've turned Nash heel when they turned Shawn face. Razor, Michaels and Bret could've given us some decent matches with Nash.

I love how Hayes is looking up at our last few posts.

A check of the liquor fund, combined with it being Sunday and hard liquor stores in my area being closed, the best I can offer is a 25 oz. Bud Light Lime-A-Rita from the local gas station. Do you prefer Strawberry or Raspberry? Raspberry. Definitely raspberry.

A post in which I shamelessly rip-off something piranesi has been doing in this thread. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter has one of my absolute favorite side-characters in any slasher film ever, Sara, played by the basically completely unknown Barbara Howard. Pretty much the entire rest of her career is one-off characters on tv shows or appearing in dtv movies. But here, she plays Sara, the Final Girl that isn't. Before we meet Sara, we've already met Trish Jarvis, who is clearly and obviously our Final Girl. Which makes Sara's introduction all the stranger. Because she's cute but not dressed provocatively. She doesn't strip down and go skinny dippy with her friends. They clearly establish she's a virgin. She shows actual human emotion. All the traits that, at least in this series, generally only ever go to the Final Girl. Fairly early on, her best friend Samantha gives her what is, basically, a sex pep-talk. She has a date for this little party in the woods in a rented house set-up, Doug (who basically has no notable traits whatsoever) and as the movie progresses, she makes the bold (and in this franchise, fatal) decision to have sex with him, leading to my single favorite scene in the movie. They were in the shower together, Sara got out, is wrapping on a towel: Doug: Sara, I think I'm in heaven Sara: (barely a whisper) I think I'm in love. Doug: What? Sara: I said I'll see you in the bottom bunk. (Then she glances back at the shower with this incredible shy little smile.) Then, of course, Jason mauls Doug to death, and Sara finds the dead body of the boy that JUST took her virginity. And then... I just absolutely adore the character, and the idea behind having someone who starts the movie fitting the Final Girl mode, and taking her out of it. The whole "I think I'm in love" moment adds so much more of a feel of real tragedy than pretty much every other murder in the entire franchise combined. Moving off of Sara, man, Final Chapter really amps up the "exploitation" part of this franchise. Gore that rivals the first movie, and more naked flesh than the first three combined.

Aw.... but but the NFC North, we gotta stick together through our hate. We're so much better than the rest of the league. Except for the Vikings, fuck those guys.

They did the cruiserweight thing to counteract WCW's strength and to take advantage of Taka. Taka didn't get over to their expectations, Vince loves big guys, and it was scrapped. Christopher was perfectly acceptable as a foil to Taka, and the borderline racist slant of Lawler's commentary was interesting, but I don't think they were convinced he was a star in the making against the heavies. Or maybe he was a drug addict and asshole, just repeating what I read.

What is it with kickers in Detroit? Is the Buffalo Wild Wings button actually real there? Their kicking adventures are reaching absurd levels.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!? THEY SHOW CLASS OFF THE FIELD?! Fuck you Jimbo, you piece of shit.

Fuck, Jameis is such a fucking moron.

Belushi and Farley both make me laugh. Jon Stewart doesn't. He's pretty much the poster boy for the smugness I hate about 21st century humor.

Kobe marks are weird dudes.

It's cliche to say this now, but I'm still going to need a 30 for 30 documentary on this Florida Gators team one day. Cooper, Hernandez, and Harvin with Tebow/Urban Meyer leading the way? There are secrets buried in there somewhere. I think Cam was on it too.

Owens is probably the second best wide receiver in the HISTORY of football. Maybe 3rd or 4th depending on your criteria. At worst. If he's not in the hall of fame, it's a fucking joke. Just like with Owens, Harvin has a lot of friends in the locker room including Bruce Irvin and Marshawn Lynch. Owens always had a lot of friends too. The wide receiver position is a touchy thing because when they are open they expect the ball to be coming their way. When they're not open, they STILL expect the ball to be coming their way. They are ridiculously confident. I can see the frustration because they are extremely talented and they can change the game in one play if you give them the opportunity to do so. It's tough being a QB and keeping these guys happy but it's also very difficult being a receiver because any time you criticize the QB... YOU are at fault. Russell Wilson is averaging 195 yards a game this year. He's been efficient and that's perfectly fine if the team is winning but a game like last week.. they needed to open it up a bit to match Dallas. Wilson was terrible in the game and from what I'm hearing Harvin let him know about it. Obviously you can't choose to keep Percy over Wilson if it comes to that but now the team is left with a very shaky receiving corps. We'll see what happens the rest of the way. I think people are too quick to blame the receiver. The Eagles wouldn't have even been in the game against New England if it wasn't for Owens on one leg doing his best Superman impression.

Fuck it. Now I just want to watch Brock and Harper stiff one another for 20 minutes.

And what exactly will the TW/Comcast guys have to hold at HBO. HBO: Its our content and cable is dying TW/Comcast: Fine we'll pull your stations HBO: Thanks that means the people paying YOU for it will pay us! ComWarner: oh, that's a nice service you have- shame if something happened to your bandwidth.