BobbyWhioux

At the risk of sounding like a cop-out, I'm sure it's a little of both.

The natural extention of this weird compulsion to rate and rank everything sports-related, because it's the easiest and most effective clickbait article to write. I'm seriously surprised this hasn't been an espn.com article "top 10 NFL worst citizens/worst off-field controversies OF ALL TIME. Have thoughts on our list? Reply in the comments section [and argue in endless circles over a question that can never be answered]." Hell, they probably have and I just don't know about it because I never go to espn.com. Also the "who has it worse" pissing contest has been en vogue on the internet for years. Mash them together and this seems inevitable.

Something about rose tinted glasses, something about them being exceedingly thick/potent, something about Roman Reigns. Y'all can finish the joke from here.

You were a kid when you were younger. You probably don't appreciate movies, tv, books, food, etc the same way. I'd generally argue that being an adult broadens your perspective on matters. You don't just appreciate sweet or salty, you like sour and bitter as well. I dont disagree with what you are saying, but what I meant was wishing I could watch and not try to pick apart everything and just enjoy the ride. Not shout at the driver about every bump in the road. Obviously growing up gives you perspective and maturity and aquired tastes. Wrestling has been a staple of my life for going on 27 years, and I was just reflecting on a time when my childlike wonderment was fullfilled every time WWF, NWA, WCCW etc. came on, and wondering if wrestling itself was really that different or if jaded cynicism has taken away more than I thought. Of course, I was left waiting in vain for Marty Jannetty to even the score with Shawn Michaels from the beginning and I never totally forgave/accepted HBK in all his later iterations for it out of some sense that the original wage of blood was never paid. Also when I started watching the broadcasters were Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan so of course things could not help but always go downhill from there and that's not even anyone's fault Maybe I was destined to be jaded and have a hipster's contrarian streak (Savage not Hogan, Rock not Austin) all the way.

You are actually wrong on a technicality because due to the recent change in calendar year, drafting Jamarcus and DHB are now outside the five year window [it still doesn't crack Top 5 though, admittedly]

In the same vein as Tabe: Use of the screwball did eventually warp Carl Hubbell's arm, but not quite as dramatically as this picture appears to suggest.

These three changes will have the combined effect of eliminating approximately 7.3 seconds from games. Which will be promptly be added right back whenever someone gratuitously stretches the last note of "God Bless America"

also from a traditional rivalry standpoint the AFC West is just like the NFC North in that it should never be fucked with or split up or altered in any way, ever. So of course they'll fuck with it.

The cocktease of moving the Rams back to LA yet out of the NFC West so that the traditional 49ers/Rams SF vs LA rivalry somehow becomes even deader than it was is so consistent with what I expect from the NFL it has an illusory quality of making actual sense. Especially since teams shifting conferences would be completely superfluous/unnecessary in the Rams & Chargers to LA scenario.

I want to believe the other two team market is more civilized or at least self aware enough to dial it back when both teams are garbage but I imagine Jets fan and Giants fan interaction is somehow just as bad.

Ugh, two 49ers vs. Raiders games per season. No Fucking Thanks. The local pissing contest betwixt fans is tiresome enough as it is (and yes, in classic Battered Spouse Syndrome fashion, most Raider fans in Northern California would continue to support the team that left town on them now twice in this scenario). As much as I'd like to claim it was Ray Rice, or all the other Above The Law shit these guys pull, or the concussions, or even the growing sense that it's actually a work that most put me off to football, it's really just having to live in a two team market and listen to the pathetic, earnestly delivered tribal behavior from the "rival" fan bases (done even with both teams suck, which for much of recent history has been the case). There were parking lot stabbings at the fucking PRESEASON GAME, which Jed York and Amy Trask at the time fortunately then decided to cancel. Honestly the Raiders leaving again wouldn't bother me so much except that you just know they are "coincidentally" going to start winning again when they're in L.A.

Nobody mutilated the english language as beautifully as The Physical Phemonomon Scott Steiner. It's as true in print as it is aurally.

Okay, what's the story here? I need to know. Plans to recycle Shawn Stasiak's gimmick?

Really, he's worth it just to have him running around with your face and/or brand logo airbrushed onto his jacket. VISUAL IMPRESSIONS

It's funny how easily I've gotten into the frame of mind of basically writing off 2015 already as just one big year-long extended spring training for 2016. The A's, meanwhile... that's not going to be pretty. Pre-emptive blow up to begin a new rebuild after the Lester gambit failed. Well at least the stadium is n.....oh, fuck.

As a youngun, I often wondered Hogan -- ostensibly a championship wrestler -- only ever seemed to "punch and kick a guy in the head" (to quote Bobby The Brain during I believe Wrestlemania 8) I think those armbars answer my long-standing question. He's got a really awkward Figure 4 too, which you can see in the Arn Anderson Wrestler Of The Day thread during that match I clamor for so much. [i suppose I should get around to watching stuff from Japan and/or when Hogan was really young and moved a lot better.]

Considering Al worshipped speed in much the same way Vince worships muscleheads, Wrestlemania and the WWE would look very different. Al gave minorities a break way ahead of the curve, too. Ergo: "KOFI IS A GREAT WORLD CHAMPION. GET OVER IT."

Well see, yeah, I was thinking Seabass could be Orton's special guest corner man and they could do a thing where they both kick someone for the finish. But even then its a Punt when Orton does it so I'd just end up missing Shane Lechler even more.

For Mania? For page 18. Though I wouldn't mind if... ...damn, can't even think of the most apropos Raider to make a Wrestlemania cameo. Feel free to finish the joke yourselves.

It's like a glimpse into the melting pot of my Id: Fake Fightin' and Vidya Games

Brie Bella repackaged as a Stan Hansen impersonator vs Nikki Bella repackaged as a Terry Funk impersonator. Hair vs Hair blowoff match.

This should be DVDVR's all purpose "warning" picture. I couldn't choose between "Will You Stop?" and "I'm Gonna Have You Taken Out Of Here In A Minute!" Now I don't have to.

Of course, during the NWO angle he'd be hanging out silently in the rafters as Escrow Steve...

If I could approximate Regal's "...WTF?" face I would so overuse it.

If Sting had dropped "Sting" and started going by Steve Borden I don't think it would have hurt him any. That's not the same as saying its equal/better, but I think it sounds workable.