Cobra Commander

Yeah it would make a lot sense if the FBI kept the former Chicago Bear FBI agent away from an investigation involving the Bears DC because duh. If they had Peanut Tillman working a Bears case, that would be preposterously stupid and reflect badly if something went wrong in the process. Congrats to the people around Halas Hall who got confused for FBI Agents today.

The Twins are one win or one more Guardians loss away from a division title after Cleveland got swept in Kansas City. Twins are 81-72, Guardians are 72-81. Guardians won the season series vs Minnesota, so they would need 9 Cleveland wins and 9 Minnesota losses to win the Central.

looking at a list of current franchises in the two leagues USFL: Michigan, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh in the North. Birmingham, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans in the South. XFL: DC, Seattle, St. Louis and Las Vegas in the North. Arlington, Houston, Orlando, San Antonio in the South. So there's only one city with teams in both leagues (Houston). So if all the teams stay in business, one of the Houston teams moves. Idea 1: all 16 teams still exist and Houston goes somewhere else with an available field Idea 2: Just realign the 16 teams to make some sense of things. West Division- Arlington, Houston, Las Vegas, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis, San Antonio, Seattle East Division- Birmingham, DC, Michigan, New Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, wherever you move the other Houston team If you're doing 4-4-4-4 then Arlington/Houston/San Antonio/New Orleans. Vegas/Memphis/St. Louis/Seattle. DC/New Jersey/Philly/Pittsburgh. Birmingham/Michigan/Orlando/new team Or you just fold half of one of the leagues and have a 12 team league. I don't know which teams are the most broke. Over half of the USFL teams don't play in their home cities anyways (New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Houston, New Orleans) so there's some easy cuts if nobody can get a field. The Vegas XFL team doesn't have a stadium I'm guessing that there still isn't an available spring field in Chicago or else there'd be a team there already. Minneapolis at the Gophers field would be an idea. Atlanta would be good if there was a field. Places with MLS teams wanting to fill out dates on the calendar like Cincinnati, Miami's MLS team if they need more money with Messi around, Nashville Hell, the Oakland Coliseum would probably let a spring team play games during the A's season next year.

Not to be too glib with what could be revealed soon but the idea of a former Chicago Bears mainstay being an FBI agent is really something too. Especially since I'd guess he's doing more than the "hey, i'm a famous athlete here to talk to the kids" FBI agent stuff but probably some pretty solid stuff in that field.

As Oklahoma State guys, maybe Jack and Jerry unintentionally tapped into how OU Sooner fans/alumni acted around Oklahoma? The heel charisma of people who'd never shut up about how great Bud Wilkinson is and how great Barry Switzer is doing while talking down your "little brother" school. Not sure how many footsteps are necessary to go from being the all-American boys to being the biggest assholes in a small town. Some of the best heels are also the more relatably bad people that you encounter day to day.

The other thing about that Mark Youngblood squash is that Bill Howard spent some time working in Amarillo against various Romero family members and Mark lawndarts him into the mat anyways. I don’t know if they ever asked him if he wanted to manage but I’m pretty confident that Jerry Brisco would have been a better mouthpiece than quite a few of the people who got to be WWF managers in the late 80s/early 90s. Agenting is probably a better job than being the 4th most prominent heel manager in the WWF. No idea if Vince’s thing with southern accents applied to Okies too or Jerry could have done good promos next to someone who isn’t Jack Brisco standing still.

You’ll never have the time to ride space mountain if you read comic books, son

looking through NewsBank articles about Notre Dame/Ohio State going into 1995 and two notes 1) they scheduled the game 10 years earlier in 1985. They opened up dates on the schedule by getting Michigan out of playing Notre Dame. The same year Ohio State announced games against Arizona in 1993/1997/2000 and Florida State in 1996/1999. So they were scheduling games 15 years in advance back then (of course, the Arizona games ended up in 1991/1997/2003, and they never played Florida State in 1996/1999). The AD who scheduled Ohio State/Notre Dame for 1995 had resigned in 1987 2) Woody Hayes was the main roadblock to Notre Dame playing Ohio State because Ohio State already had a big annual game against Michigan and they didn't need another one. At least that was the public-facing reason. That it would "distract from the Big 10 season and going to the Rose Bowl". It being Woody Hayes, i'm sure that less pleasant reasons are also possible. I also read about a 1977 Notre Dame/Ole Miss game in Jackson, MS that was supposed to be the date of a Notre Dame/Ohio State game that Woody wouldn't go for, therefore Notre Dame ended up going to Mississippi (and then hosting Ole Miss at home in 1985)

let's get back to stuff on the Network, it's... Mid-Atlantic Wrestling (9/17/1983) [presented in the most complete form possible, due to original production technical difficulties] We start off with Paul Jones and Dory Funk Jr with Bob Caudle. Dory's all fired up (a bold lie by Paul Jones) because of the embarrassment about Rufus R. Jones beating Dory Funk for the Mid-Atlantic title. If you knew how Rufus won the title, you'd slap him. Dory's suit is almost the same color as the Mid-Atlantic background and he's in his usual mood. Golden Boy Grey vs Charlie Brown: No idea who Charlie Brown is. Several rows of ringside are filled up behind the hard cam. Charlie Brown wins with the Sleeper. Charlie Brown didn't win with an elbow drop, so how could you say he's someone else. Speaking of mellow people like Dory Funk Jr, Bob Geigel has been lured into the Mid-Atlantic to say that he's fining Dick Slater and Bob Orton $5000 each that must be paid. Slater and Orton came out ahead with the bounty money minus the fine. "A paradox isn't a pair of brain surgeons or where you park two boats". Pretty good line by Bob Orton Jr, I never really thought of Bob Orton Jr's mic skills. Meanwhile, Gary Hart wants an explanation about Charlie Brown from Bob Geigel. Gary Hart is buttering up Bob Geigel in an effort to get bald solidarity. Bob Geigel doesn't know if Charlie Brown is Jimmy Valiant but Gary Hart is perplexed. Bob Geigel has a program that Jimmy Valiant is wrestling in Memphis, so who's to say if Charlie Brown is Jimmy Valiant. But if Gary Hart can prove Charlie Brown is Jimmy Valiant, Bob Geigel will suspend Jimmy Valiant for a year. Gary Hart is still amazed and outraged at this decision. Gary Hart didn't stab Bob Geigel, so Bob got off light. Bill Howard vs Mark Youngblood: This is our first look at Mark Youngblood, brother of Jay. Can't get over how few people there are in the audience here. Youngblood wins with a running bulldog out of the corner that spikes Howard's head into the mat. Bob Orton Jr and Dick Slater join Bob Caudle. Bob Orton Jr says he's one of the shrewdest businessmen in the world. "$25,000 worth of business money, daddy!". "Ric Flair thinks he's worth a fortune but he's only worth $5000". Orton and Slater landing verbal bombs. "I'm the only thing besides a plane crash that has put Ric Flair in the hospital". As far as televised victory laps go, This is a good one. YoungBoat and Mark Youngblood join Bob Caudle for some words. Ricky Steamboat can't believe what Bob Orton Jr did. Mark Youngblood is here to watch Jay and Ricky's back. Jay Youngblood's mullet game is on point. The Assassins vs Brett Hart and Rip McCord: Gotta pronounce both Ts in Brett to make it clear that it's Barry Horowitz. The fact that nobody is here really does make it obvious how hard the Assassins are hitting Hart. McCord gives up to a hammerlock on the ground to (maybe) the fatter of the two Assassins. I think Jody was noticeably fatter than his partner. But maybe the thinner Assassin got the fall. Gary Hart joins Bob Caudle and he announces that he is bringing Baron Von Raschke to unmask Charlie Brown. Yes, more bald people! Now our main event.. Greg Valentine and Dick Slater vs Roddy Piper and Wahoo McDaniel: The several fans here are loud for Piper taking on Valentine. I'd say they should dim the lights but it's possible that's not possible in this high school gym. That inverted atomic drop looked a lot better than the endless applications in WWF matches. Fuck, that Wahoo chop was loud in this venue. That's a "MIC CHECK!" move if there is one. There are some fun combinations of the late 1983 Mid-Atlantic Babyface Superfriends. As you'd expect, Wahoo and Greg Valentine just loudly beat the shit out of each other at a moment's notice. Basically taking loud chops around here is the local version of football drills where you're expected to get spiked practicing tackling as long as you do the same when you tackle. Greg Valentine puts Piper in the sleeper to put him in peril. Piper firing up and facially imitating a horse. Piper makes the hot tag and it's time for Wahoo to beat the shit out of Greg some more. What the hell kind of person are you if you wouldn't see this in your local high school in the 70s/80s. Hot tag from Wahoo to Piper but Slater throws Piper to the floor and Valentine beats up on him before the heels go after Wahoo. You know you're in a rough part of town where you have to ask if 1983 Piper or 1983 Slater are the lightest workers in a tag match. The match ends in a schmozz non-finish. I gotta say that Wahoo and Greg verified that the microphones work. Some words from Jack and Jerry Brisco. Jerry Brisco is having a chuckle at the idea of Jay Youngblood's younger brother watching YoungBoat's back. "You know they call him. dontcha? Mark!" says Jack. Jerry is amazing on the mic here. Charlie Brown joins Bob. Who could say who this guy really is? Wahoo and Roddy Piper join Bob. Wahoo came back here to wrestle. He's threatening a strap match which presumably would be amazingly violent. Roddy Piper is his usual energetic self even when he goes directly after Totally-Not Jimmy Valiant. If I haven't typed this enough, late 83 Mid-Atlantic is some good shit, pal. I have no idea which episodes I've already seen and which ones I haven't. I should just charge through all this stuff and watch the first Starrcade sometime closer to the anniversary when the lack of baseball opens up my viewing schedule.

for some reason, I suspect that if some cache of 1970s Amarillo footage dropped, it would actually do more wonders for Dory than any of the famous Amarillo mainstays. Or at least it'll involve Dory working a more interesting style than people are used to seeing. Unless it turns out that The Lawman was a superworker who never travelled because of his job or something.

Just watched a Jim Brunzell/Damien Demento match the other day and 1) didn’t know Jim Brunzell stayed around the WWF for that long 2) hey there’s scared children looking at Damien Demento shortly before they decided to not push Damien Demento 3) just imagine Damien Demento as Yoshi Kwan in 1993 WCW

I'm calling it the USXFL but yeah, pretending it's like the AL and NL of spring football would be an idea

I was listening to the stream of a Hawaii reggae station (Q 103) and I noticed two things. One, the station is on Maui and attorneys have arrived on the airwaves after the wildfires and number two? This Reggae cover of “Touch of Grey” done by Marty Dread

could Panthers/Saints end before Steelers/Browns reaches halftime?

Wainwright has won his 200th game. So he won't have to come back next year.

excited to find out how many people like two shitty MNF games over Monday Night Raw

i'm guessing this play turns into an incompletion instead of a fumble/turnover edit: or they won't overturn that

One more CWC note: one criticism of Kendrick/Ibushi at the time which I noticed after my post was the people saying if Ibushi kicked out of the Burning Hammer, what could beat him Well, if we wanna use wrestling explanation logic... um... he took a lot of damage from Kendrick in a win and that left him a little weaker vs Perkins than he would have been otherwise. Even if what finished Ibushi was the kneebar and he didn't really do any obvious selling to advance that explanation But, that would be my kayfabe explanation that isn't "Brian Kendrick is powerful than Kenta Kobashi"

several of those names look like they could be stolen to rename other wrestlers Brogan Finlay... well, if you shorten that to Bro Finlay, then you can recycle the Matt Riddle gimmick on him. A beach dude sort of gimmick on a pale Irish dude, let's do it I read one Redditor with the idea of a tag team between Finlay and Regal's kid. There's probably some situations where you could team up the kids of two feuding wrestlers and have their fathers be displeased with the whole concept. Sort of Romeo and Juliet without the sex, presumably Also, Richard Holliday should be hired already.

Would it be a dramatic change to have Leva Bates go from Librarian gimmick to a commentary gig?

Benoit/Regal with the blood was end of 1996

I think it's possible i'm gonna be able to listen to the entire episode of BTS this week before falling asleep (but it's possible I fall asleep listening in bed since i've been falling asleep before putting the phone up on the charger lately) But it's a 4hr/20min episode this week (4:02 before the Patreon preview). It's a 5 day week since they did September 6-12, 1987 back in 2017 and September 19-25, 1987 in 2018.

how long until that running start field goal block gets banned

I downloaded and uploaded the gif