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Paul London. Sixty minute draw. Both men are carried out on dolphins into the nearby ocean and never seen again, presumed having joined the pod.

Can't wait for the season to start next week. Hope The Giants don't look as bad in the season opener as they did in this final pre season game last night. *Checks notes* Fuck.

Geno Smith speaking for all quarterbacks in the last 5 to 10 years

Dean~! is watching this with a big smile on his face from the DVDVR slice of heaven (where you get all the wrestling networks)

Recent picture, @NikoBaltimore.

Sounds like the "this win will need an asterisk by it" call is going to be this year's hottest trend among NFL commentators.

14 years ago!

Hopefully y'all don't mind but... DAK~! DAK~! DAK~! DAK~! Sorry, Rippa, but if the Giants were going to get demolished like that then might as well be DEAN's Cowboys. At least this time.

Dynamite is here in Louisville in November at the Yum Center. It’s right on the Ohio River. Quiver by the River?

In the football world, there are two separate groups. One is the Jets, one is the Bills. These are their stories. *DOINK DOINK*

This weekend is a real indictment on those 'NFL is worked' people. The two biggest week 1 prime time games are a 40 - 0 disgusting blow out and the other has the biggest star of the off season leave the game after 5 plays. Even tho that catch just now was amazing and the game is tied, how many people turned the game off when Rodgers went out? Not very smart "booking".

Few things about the NFL annoy me more than the fact they are a multi multi billion dollar business and they still can't/won't implement fields that will cut down on injuries. Its a dangerous enough sport as it is, players shouldn't have to worry about their feet getting stuck in shitty turf and getting seriously injured on top of everything else that can happen to them. I know they are *trying* to use new technology to make it better but there to me is no excuse that they haven't figured it out yet.

that field is garbage and has been inflicting serious leg injuries for years. Serves them right for refusing to spend on fixing it. What could be more Jets than Aaron Rodgers' tenure with the Jets lasting 5 plays?

You had me at Helmet, L7, and Quicksand. I saw Helmet in 2005 when the lineup included Page Hamilton, Chris Traynor, John Tempesta, and Frank Bello. I saw L7 open for the Offspring in 1997. Also on the bill supporting their first album was AFI.

Or maybe if we're lucky it'll be the Tony Romo model of coming in, being really good for a couple years but slowly getting beaten down into just another bog standard NFL color commentator.

I never got to see a show at City Gardens. Trenton is over an hour from where I grew up. I did not have my driver’s license until late in high school (can’t get it in NJ until your are 17.) My parents were also fairly strict with me about curfews (understandably so.) I think my friends saw Shelter or someone I was not interested in. But as I also once joked: I never went to City Gardens because my parents loved me. I did go to a bunch of shows at The Wetlands. They had a bunch of bands outside of the Dead jam band stuff it was best known for. I know I saw a few ska shows (of course) and at least one Bouncing Souls show. But I did see maybe the best show of my life there: El Vez, The Mexican Elvis. The guy behind El Vez was in The Zeroes and a few other old punk bands. Then he became El Vez, which is sort of really hard to describe looking back. Or maybe not: Imagine if Elvis was Mexican-American, with his “parody” songs (In El Barrio) not really parody songs but more statements about Chicano pride and politics. Great stage show with his backup dancers The Elvettes and a lot of costume changes and fun. I saw him with a few weeks left before I went back to school and came close to just following the tour for the next week or two but my parents wanted to hang out some, and I am a mamma’s boy at heart. I saw El Vez a few years later at one of the most memorable weekends of my life. I worked at my school’s library and was good friends with this guy Joe. Joe was not a student (a few years older than me and I think chipping away at a class here and there) but still worked at the library. Joe was obsessed with El Vez but never saw him. We became friends over El Vez (I think I had his tour shirt) and probably half of our conversations were about him. El Vez finally came to Philly to play at the late, great Trocadero. (Sadly closed.) Joe was brimming with anticipation. We got to the show early and he got pretty inhebriated. (I drove and was also a lightweight.) Before the show starts, this girl standing near me catches my eye and we start talking. El Vez starts. And then 2 songs in — literally 10 minutes into the show — Joe freaks out and grabs me and says “I have to go catch a bus and get to Wildwood right now!” (Wildwood is an insane Jersey Shore town — making it even weirder was that the show was in late September.) Just so weird. I ended up driving the girl and her roommate to where they lived (they were freshman art students) and we made plans to hang out the next day. The girl calls me and asks what I am doing. I tell her that I am watching Mark McGuire try and break the home run record. She has no idea what that means. When I tell her, she says “Eww. Sports.” The date did not go well at all, to say the least. Nice girl but I learned a hard lesson about the delicate dance of being into weirdo stuff like El Vez while at my core being more of a bonehead than I would ever admit. Or: I did not want to learn more about her eco-focused art fanzine and she did. She did now want to hear about Survivor Series. The last time I saw Joe was a few years ago. First thing he brought up was his awesome the El Vez show we saw was. I reminded him of what happened — him freaking out and going to Wildwood. He did not believe me. Sadly, Joe passed away last year. Addiction got the best of him. Real good and funny and silly dude.

My Collision I went to was a weird one. It was the weekend before All In, so they did Collision, and also taped ROH and Rampage since they had to do the next week's Collision with Dynamite on that coming Wednesday. We didn't get out until 1am. But, my son was also not leaving a second early, so it was fine.

Guess we never got a Bret Hart vs Sgt. Slaughter matchup meanwhile random tweeter referring to Hamrick as Confederic Flair which would certainly be a ring name/gimmick Would the Confederate Four Horsemen be made up of Confederic Flair, Stonewall Anderson, Robert E. Tullee, O.L.E. Anderson managed by Jefferson “JJ” Dillon?

Gym win of the day: just wrapped up a long workout, finishing with cable curls, when an old Sikh dude told me, “your muscles are huge!” Loooool I’ll never catch up with @Shartnado but I’ll be happy with halfway and compliments from randos.

Ellen Barkin is so great in The Big Easy and Sea of Love. It’s a shame she had the audacity to turn 40 in 1990s Hollywood.

When Sting call it quits I hope he has one more singles match and gives it to Darby because Darby will die a thousand deaths making Sting look like a superhero.

Just let an old man shake his fist at the clouds

5th September 2021. Meant to post this last week for Bryan Danielson's two year anniversary. I turned the air blue in the early hours of the morning when Adam Cole came out at All Out 2021. It was the equivalent of a lump of coal as a Christmas present. Thankfully Danielson came out two minutes later.

Here is a perfect symptom of what is wrong with AEW right now: One of the biggest reason ticket sales for Grand Slam are soft is because last year they decided to make it like one of those Jack Sabboth indy shows at the Elks Lodge that usually lasted longer than a test cricket match. The show ending at 1am left a very sour taste in people's mouths and I know lots of people who are going to pass on going this year because of that extremely negative experience. People in AEW have to know this so why hasn't Tony come out and told people that the show will end at around 11pm with half of Rampage taped at 7pm and the other half taped after Dynamite? They have really slipped badly when it comes to listening to their audience and giving them what they want.

I have really enjoyed the trend in recent years of teams drafting a QB, getting mediocre play out of him his first year or two, and then going out and trading for a legit number one wide receiver and seeing if that, you know, helps. Bills got Josh Allen Stefon Diggs. Eagles adding AJ Brown to go with Devonta Smith for Hurts. Bears giving it a shot going out and getting DJ Moore for Fields. It's almost like the old "draft a QB and expect him to instantly elevate the entire team around him" method is flawed.

Here are my thoughts from a fun night at Ring of Honor and AEW in Cleveland: "Tell us that story again, Grandpa Darby!" "One day, I was skateboarding to the ring, and I was attacked by a DINOSAUR~!" "Ooooohhhh....." Here's me talking to my daughter (age 20): (Dark Order shows up) "They're a happy cult." (Righteous shows up) "Are these guys another cult?" "Yeah, but they wear white." Speaking of cult leaders, "Keith Lee saying 'run' was a tribute to Swamp Guy." Her thoughts at the end of the night: "I'm not emotionally invested in pro wrestling, so I like the fact that the AEW matches aren't so long. The WWE matches just go on forever." My three biggest impressions of the night: 1. Cleveland is getting into AEW. For the last year's Dynamite, there were a lot of random wrestling shirts (Savage, Piper. DX). This year, there were a lot of AEW shirts, including guys who weren't scheduled to be there (Omega, MJF, Cole, Orange). 2. Collision (and AEW) will be just fine without Punk. It's cool in a way that Collision had one "star of the show" who is now gone, so everyone else can gun for that spot. Starks, Keith Lee, FTR came right out and said they want the spot. But think of the other candidates: Andrade (looked at a monitor), Swerve (wasn't even there), Jay White (getting over as an inanimate object). 3. Twenty years ago, I announced for Ring of Honor in community college gyms and county fairgrounds. Last night, I watched ROH in the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. That really meant a lot to me. ROH didn't go away; it exists as part of the No. 2 promotion in the country. Being a part of its early days feels even better than it does for Bleacher Report.

For someone that didn’t want to sound like Jim Cornette, ohhhhh boy did you fail miserably with that entire post.

I saw GWAR a bunch of times. I was obsessed with them in high school. First time I saw them was when I was 18 or 19 at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. All of these dudes hopped over the railing and onto the stage and started attacking GWAR. Utter madness. My buddy knew some of the dudes involved in the attack — crust type kids from the Jersey Shore (which was an area where things always ended up just a bit further than they should have.) He asked why they fought GWAR. The answer will stay with me forerver: ”They’re trying to conquer earth.”

Hey all. I was farting around with the themes to try and figure out what, if anything, was broken from updates. I've heard some some work on well on mobile and some don't play nice. I can't say I really learned anything in my digging around, but I'll keep tinkering with it and will try not to break the board. Anyway. While I was in the editor I decided to make a Dallas Cowboys inspired theme in honor of Dean. I wish I did it a long time ago so the man could have enjoyed it himself. So if you're a Dallas fan. a Dean fan, or really like Navy Blue and Silver, you can check that out.

lol wut

That screencap does not make me want to watch that at all

Robert Salah looks like he just watched his grandma fall into a volcano.

Charlie Dempsey, but that's politically unlikely.

Punk will return to the WWE and restart RAW Underground to be a shootfighting segment where he always goes over

My introduction to GWAR was seeing them wandering around the show floor at Gen Con when I was 14-ish without having any idea they were a band until some grognard explained it to me. Absolutely the best way to experience GWAR because it's genuinely shocking and you don't have to hear their music.

I've gone to two AEW shows, however the format was different. The first show I went to was October 2019 and only had dark matches after Dynamite. The second show I went to was originally supposed to be Blood & Guts, but was rescheduled because of the pandemic. That show consisted of Dark, Dynamite ,and Rampage.

My main story quest unbugged itself! Maybe it had to do with finishing up the Terrormorph storyline, I'm not sure. But at least I can proceed forward now.

You forgot Shibata

The shows I've been to were a Dynamite/Rampage, AEW Dark matches before, 8 to 10 Dynamite and then Rampage. And a Rampage/Battle of the Belts, longer Dark match recording until maybe 8:30? Then Battle of Belts and then Rampage. I'm going to the Collision here in Grand Rapids on the 23rd so I'm excited to see how that plays out, likely the same as the Dynamite Rampage one but with ROH before or after I'd assume

Is it worth pointing out how that this shit seems to keep happening to folks at Michigan State? I'm not saying to give them the death penalty or anything and honestly, Penn State is like the Sandy Hook of scandals where the absolute worst thing happened and ultimately it didn't even matter so if Penn State didn't get shut down AND got their wins back then ain't nothing happening to any other big school. It's just...man...when it keeps happening at the same fucking school it's hard to call it a coincidence. Like one of those situations where the rot starts at the top type of things, but I honestly don't know enough about State to know if that's the case or not.

I’m calling my shot, Riddle vs Punk at Bound for Glory 2024.

Tirico & Collinsworth: Haha, man isn't it hilarious that a FOUR-YEAR OLD was playing tackle football, got put into a ridiculous drill, and went home crying? Haha, man, that was hilarious! God, they're just so awful.

How has no one mentioned Nigel making orgasmic sounds when Danielson named Sabre Jr as his challenge?

I do not understand how you get into this situation. Of all things you can do to all the people you can do it to, how do you do this to her? You cannot sexually harass the woman you brought in to discuss sexual harassment. How does it even cross your mind?

Oh yeah, I know I say this every week, but it was really noticeable last night. Kevin Kelly was fucking awful. Please just get Ian back and if Ian wants his weekends free, then literally replace Kevin with anyone else. He’s just so bad.

Cauliflower wings are just a sauce delivery mechanism. All cauliflower wings taste pretty much the same in my experience. If the sauce is no good, then it doesn't matter if it's on cauliflower or chicken, it's going to be bad. This buffalo sauce was the worst sauce I've ever had.

"You can call me Ass Boy, because.. " made me fall in love with the Savages! Such a fun team.

Advertisers also won't pay as much for non-prime space, hence why your daytime TV ads are vastly different to your prime time TV ads. Those daytime ad buyers aren't nearly as profitable as the prime time ad buyers because as seen on TV junk isn't Coca-Cola. So throwing some numbers out in the air, if it costs $250k to produce a show (not saying that's how much it costs to produce ROH, but work with me here), and your ad buys for Thursday at 3pm are maxing out at $100k because the ad buyers just don't buy at that timeframe so saying "well we can get 100k viewers during this time frame" will get ad buyers saying "I don't believe you, here's my offer, take it or leave it". You can run a match through a PnP break or not, a buyer just isn't buying at that timeslot. It doesn't matter how many eyes are watching live OR on DVR unless it's an over-the-air show like your network soap operas or a daytime talk show like Kelly Clarkson or Drew Barrymore because that's all the TV industry thinks people watch during daytime anyway. (And let's be real... they're not wrong.) The number of eyes doesn't matter if you're going to take a theoretical weekly $150k loss just to put the show on the air, because if the ad buyers aren't buying the time, you might as well not run the show. Oh, and I'm sure someone will say "TK could offer to run the show for free as a trial to get ad buyers interested", but you'd be expecting ad buyers to break from decades of formula and that won't happen, not to mention that you probably shouldn't offer a show for free unless you have the expectation that it will stay free. The best he could hope for is an in-kind trade where he offers to take the timeslot in exchange for finding his own ad buyers, but most networks aren't going to go for that.