BloodyChamp

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Wow they included Albany that’s awesome

Aiyuk is overrated if you ask me. He was wide open on those lazy drag routes because everybody was scheming for Deebo, CMC and Kittle. I’ve seen Deebo, CMC, and Kittle catch slants and drag people, run the ball in the snow when nothing else worked, and just do all kind of crazy stuff even when defenses were focused on just them. With that said he’s still good and the apparently love they heck out of the guy so as long as they’ve already had the discussion with Purdy about maybe not becoming the highest paid quarterback of alltime soon then this is a better move than the 49ers are getting credit for. As good as those other guys are they aren’t getting younger. That goes for Trent Williams too.

Gordon Solie cutting up with Dusty on the Pro in 1995 was hilarious, and we’ve posted videos of it here and there. Dusty and Cruz on the Prime was also gold. I’m trying to think of an example outside of wrestling where an overqualified celebrity enhances what he’s doing more than he does bring his status down. I can only think of older examples which make no sense now and I’m behind on new junk. I agree at Lance’s appalled reactions, where he was clearly so appalled but so in control of himself. I don’t know much about him in WCW besides just his announcing, but I wouldn’t doubt that he was just kind of there until he wasn’t like many people were. Also it has been mentioned that Sid would have been perfect in the territories. I agree and will expand on that a little. Not only would he have been great, but he would have been Abdullah the Butcher or Bruiser Brody level. He would have been that unique and people would have been just that scared of him while also being curious and unable to look away. It might not make any sense to amount him to Abby or Brody but the territory types I’m talking about seem to get narrowed down to just the monsters but there were more kinds of guys if you think about it. There was also Terry Funk, Stan Hansen and others who actually walked and talked and made sense, but still had that special interest no matter where they went. Sid had that and would have had it even more back then.

People were also popping for Lee Scott in a protoCactus Jack kind of way. I didn’t like Lance Russell back in the day but back in the day I was an idiot. I miss that calm, no matter what’s going on, kind of announcing now that it’s gone.

Honestly WHY ME just the way Sid did it, was pretty accurate. No matter how big, bad, rich, etc you are one thing that will piss you off is your car getting RIP’d. And if it happened twice in a row you’d melt down and do nothin but scream why lol! This reminded me of more…the fast paced so’s I could catch up to Goldberg streak where chokeslams on whoever was near him at the time counted as pins. That alone was acceptable if not perfect, but then they started getting the math wrong over weeks, then over days, then over 2 hour shows. A YouTube video called Sid Vicious match might top Scott Steiner math.

I have a gif of this but can’t figure out how to post it

O gosh I’m not sure because I officially bailed shortly after. That ppv was actually great, but Nitro became unwatchable. Somebody needs to post that though.

They had some kind of stip where Goldberg couldn’t touch Sid until that match, and Sid played chickenshit every bit as good as Ric Flair, then the Thunder before the ppv Goldberg speared the shit out of him. It was good stuff. It was basic wrestling stuff is all, but it was done right. It’s the 1 thing I’ll give Russo credit for. He made that feud great. Also the match was still “building” all the way until bell time which is always great when you can pull that off. Between the broken stipulation and it being implied that Goldberg had already taken Sid out that night, we didn’t know for sure that we had a match until we did. Also the Benoit match was great. Now Benoit is who carried Sid that night but hell it still took 2 and Sid did business which was the right thing to do at the time.

You just never know when it comes to drafting. Coaches don’t know, players don’t know and we dang sure don’t know. That’s a unique list of cuts. A guy who started on the team that won the SB, a year old first round draft pick, a Bill Belichik coached quarterback, and 1 of the 9000 quarterbacks who started for the 49ers between Jimmy G and Purdy.

Lol at Sid calling Goldberg a stupid idiot. He was the Jack Webb of wrestling when it came to insults which was…great. I just watched The Nightstalker match and that was bad but at least I could tell what they were trying to do thanks to the announcers explaining the lung thing. I think The Nightstalker screwing up at Starrcade 91 was actually worse, and the announcers scrambling to cover for it made it worse worse. I tell myself now that wrestlers don’t try to kill the other wrestler whenever they use a killer weapon in a way that won’t kill anybody, but as a youngun that used to confuse the heck out of me because it was real and they acted like every wrestler was trying to kill their opponent lol!

Sid was ethered by us all for Wargames 91 lol there’s no need to deny it. https://imgur.com/gallery/wuQkLuC

There was definitely a tag team with Rick Steiner that has, not a gaffe, but an alltime hilarious moment that is overshadowed by his others. He did something we talked about in the Wrestling Tropes thread. There was some reason why either Rick or Sid was pinning the other with a basic lateral press, to benefit them both. I can’t remember why but it was WCW so it was probably some Fingerpoke of Doom type nonsense. Whoever was being pinned reversed it and Sid got up and VERY CLEARLY ENUNCIATED “WHAT ARE YOU DOING” SO THAT EVERYBODY COULD SEE AND HEAR WHAT HE SAID lol! He was the most interesting he’d been in a long time for a minute there in WCW, especially after his return was kind of lame. He made a face turn in WCW and they never turned traditional heels face. He made Goldberg look like what WCW had been trying so hard to actually make him look like, and there were no more Oldberg signs after that match. And I mean he made him look like what Bret Hart made SCSA look like, or what Flair made Sting look like that night. He couldn’t have done a better job. Then in the middle of all that badassness he still made us laugh when he went back and edited the footage of the match lol! Then he lost to Benoit clean for the title. Hot dang he did not get enough credit for doing business I tell you.

I just heard everybody, and I want to say what I have to say before I read the thread like always. He was freaking great when his head was right. Like many wrestlers that wasn’t always often but when he was focused he was great. He carried Goldberg to Goldberg’s best match ever at Halloween Havoc, not DDP and not freakin Jerry Flynn wtf. And who can forget his gaffes. They were great too because we all still laugh at them and it’s not like they hurt anything in a world where the Kliq was also happening. Meanwhile he kept it together during 1 of the alltime disasters, that being the Shockmaster. He was always good for a pop out of nowhere, and if you don’t think that’s worth something just look around. AEW would give anything to have a young Sid for 1 night only.

That’s the 49ers in a nutshell right there. They bust their asses all the way down to the practice squad and come up that short.

We Seminoles had as many returning starters this game as we did for last game. So there’s that .

Dang RIP brothers. The kings.

Jack Russell and Great White were killer. They might have even been better than Guns N Roses. That was just the tightest, hittingest music that I never got tired of. It was everything good about 80s rock and heavy metal crammed into 5 and 7 minute songs, which might be the only reason they didn’t get as huge as Guns N Roses. They never quite had a short song that rocked as hard as Welcome to the Jungle or Paranoid. If you liked hard and heavy music that was still fun if you weren’t in the mood for serious Black Sabbath or Metallica stuff though, Great White was it. Rock Me was my Warpigs. It didn’t come on the radio every day, but when it did I knew it was a treat and I turned it up and if anybody was near me they would say yeah now there’s a goodun. Then when it was over it was sad because you knew it would be days before you heard it again. The song never totally went away either. It was always being played somewhere on the radio even if it was at 1 AM in 1995.

Peterman wow. I’ll tell you what though, it’s more in line with the times than it is that unheard of because we’ve seen some come on man stuff the last several years when it comes to quarterbacks.

Every now and then you need to just spill some buckets of blood in the ring, and when it’s 2 guys like W*NG K and Kevin it’s legit. Ftw. The problem I had with that angle was Kevin bumping the wrong way off the rope. That was an alltime eff up that would have went protoviral had it happened anywhere else. But I got over it. Kevin Sullivan was awesome and SMW was awesome. W*NG K is awesome too and I really need to explain why one day. It’s something that maybe hasn’t occurred to everybody but I think everybody would agree.

Kevin vs Norman the Lunatic was the first brawl all over the building match that I ever saw and it was everything to me that the Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl was for everybody else I swear to gosh. Just a freakin wild match that made you jump and scream and even laugh at the end. Norman was over huge at the time, and I don’t mean his weight. It doesn’t seem like it but between the Brian Pillman thing and the Chris Benoit thing, you could say that Kevin had a sharp eye for what was going to get people’s attention in the 90s. I know the 2 things blew up in everybody’s face but that’s another can of worms. I wish we could have seen it go like he had planned and without the typical WCW thing that was them having an amazing idea, followed by putting the idea through a million filters.

This was wild. This was one of the 987 WCW things they tried to do with Sullivan that had potential.

I don’t want to sound like I won’t drop it but another way to look at it is Kevin Sullivan in WCW was like Ric Flair in WCW. He had to work and was going to put up with whatever shit he had to, and gosh knows they both did. And while they were both good in WCW, it’s an injustice to have WCW be how they’re remembered the most. Kevin Sullivan was the top heel in a hot territory for a long time, and it was no coincidence that that territory’s talent headlined the NWA before it even headlined WCW. With that said I still have a soft spot for silly evil WCW Kevin.

He was a GOAT wrestling mind. The shit he put out since Florida wasn’t a product of his mind as it was just him wanting to keep an easy job in WCW. The 1 thing that did come exclusively from his mind in 1996…I don’t know if I’d call it the GOAT but it was definitely a different heavy take on something that had been poked at in wrestling but never really ran with.

I just heard. RIP Kevin. Him as a heel in FL belongs on any GOAT heel ballot. That was wild stuff. It was typical rasslin territory heat and intensity with a secret ingredient - Kevin Sullivan. The Army of Darkness was like The Freebirds. They were so great originally that they were always great, no matter how watered down they were later. And gosh knows that happened.