Cobra Commander

Did they figure out that he would work on cards because he lent out his promoters license?

Day baseball is being replaced by day playoff baseball this week, so time to watch Peacock late at night. Let's go to something I haven't watched much of. World Class Championship Wrestling (9/24/1983) Not sure if Bill Mercer's headset is large enough Match 1: Buddy Roberts (w/ headgear) vs Chris Adams. I believe this is our alcoholism feature match of the week. Buddy is outraged at the fans chanting "Baldy" at him. The headgear is just so great. Some nice counterwrestling going on here. Hitting that Superkick out of a Monkey Flip sequence looked awesome. A Tombstone Piledriver that's a front slam. Chris Adams slips walking the top rope. Buddy goes on the offense. Then Chris Adams counters into an atomic drop which Buddy sells immaculately. That Superkick to Buddy in the corner looked impressive. A few frantic pin attempts and we got a time limit draw. How long until they realize that Chris Adams superkick should be a finisher instead of a setup move because it looks a lot better than the offense it's setting up. Match 2: Cocoa Samoa (called "Cocoa Samoan" on the graphic) vs John Mantell. Mantell has the hair of an 1980s Country singer. Cocoa Samoa is also 1980s Sabu in some territories. Do you long long headscissor sequences on the mat because this match. Just imagine all the ethnicities that Cocoa Samoa could have played as a wrestler. Sometime during the match, I realize Mantell looks like 1970s Rob Reiner. Mantell wins with a Russian Legsweep. Next week, Bruiser Brody vs Michael Hayes! Match 3: Terry Gordy vs Ken Johnson. Ken Johnson looks like a total schlub. Gordy messes around with this dude for a few minutes. They do strike exchange where Gordy has more convincing strikes than a dude who looks like a high school teacher moonlighting on the weekend. Gordy puts Johnson out with the Orential sleeper/nerve hold. Johnson shakes for a bit and Gordy pins him. Well, that was an enhancement match. Kevin Von Erich gets a ringside interview where he declines to say who injured David Von Erich. Well that's one way to handle it. Match 4: Kevin and Kerry Von Erich vs Mr. Ebony and The Mongol. Somehow Mr. Ebony is the guy with a mask on this team. Meanwhile The Mongol is a total white dude with a bad haircut. Maybe he's a biker. The heel team is Tom Jones and Cousin Luke, for the record. Gotta love how the intro notes "Skandor Akbar presents" like he's also their local promoter. Kevin being willing to walk barefoot in the Sportatorium should have been a hint that this is a unique family. Kerry pausing and then dropkicking guys is a fun visual. Nice kick to the chest by the Mongol during a test of strength. Skandor got tired and is sitting down in a chair at ringside. Any managers ever just bring their own director's chair to sit in at ring side? (foreign object idea!). Since I've heard of the Von Erich reputation for working stiff, I can report that Kevin is indeed laying them in tonight. The Stomach Claw, truly one of the clawholds. Why not put a clawhold on their knee? Kerry is in some peril from a bearhug until he just counters the bearhead with the Claw. Mr. Ebony also does a bearhug. The Peacock timer stops at 46:44 for this episode but the match goes on if you just disregard Peacock trying to end the episode early. All four are in the ring for awhile. Then the Von Erichs double dropkick. Kevin beats Ebony with a nice moonsault-ish splash. Bronko's knees aren't good enough for him to get down for that count. But the fight continues postmatch before the Von Erichs irish-whip the heels into each other and stand tall. Well, the main event was fun. Adams/Roberts was more fun. The stuff in-between was in-between. Certainly shenanigans will be afoot for Brody vs Hayes next week.

the play clock should have been set the same as an MLB pitch clock once it became obvious this game sucked

when was the last time the WWE did a time limit draw for anything that wasn't an Iron Man match?

Monday Night Football is the B-Show of primetime football

Buzz Sawyer from his month in the WWF, looking like his diet consists entirely of cocaine, taking on Salvatore Bellomo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnnw9bJv0po

"Damnit Steve, Rodgers plays for the Jets, not the Giants"

47 on the Giants shoving down a Seahawk with all the subtlety of a cat knocking stuff off a shelf

they should organize a second MNF game so that we won't have to watch the second half of this game

Cornette's a Gordon Ramsay/Jon Taffer reality show guy if that's a surprise to anybody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEREGPtaurI Then again, it's probably a bigger surprise that Cornette was a Dog The Bounty Hunter watcher.

"Just call everything a touchdown and fix it in the mix" - The Refs

that touchdown probably gets called back, but it would be hilarious if it wasn't

The Sandman being 911 had some potential

I'm sure there's other umps still around who worked in the mid-90s, but it feels like Angel Hernandez is the last of the really shitty umps back when you had a bunch of morbidly obese umps and other assorted maniacs that called insane strikezones Bucknor first umped a game in 1996. Angel Hernandez was umpiring games in 1991. Here's a list of worst umpires from March 1999: Charlie Williams, Eric Gregg, Joe West, Bruce Froemming, Harry Wendelstedt, Ken Kaiser, Durwood Merrill, Ted Hendry, Joe Brinkman, Dale Ford A few of those umps got bounced out after the Mass Resignation and some had to crawl back in later.

I've noticed several Royals games where the K-Zone box looks like it's not aligned with the side of the plate. Even weirder is when it lines up on one side but not the other. Not sure if that's an optical illusion or them not making the box the right size for where they're filming from

the only way the Angels could have been less subtle about bouncing Nevin is if his keycard stopped working as soon as Game 162 ended But yeah, it'll be a slow Black Monday when the worst teams in baseball either Have a rookie manager (KC, White Sox) Don't care about winning anyways (Oakland) Have committed to giving their manager another go (St. Louis) Signed their manager to an extension before the 2023 season (Colorado) Signed their manager to an extension during a 90 loss season (Washington)

https://www.lakeplacidnews.com/news/local-news/2023/10/01/two-killed-in-lake-placid-airplane-crash-identified/ Francis also wrestled for his fathers promotion in Hawaii and worked the Battle Royal at Wrestlemania 2

Make calls early to keep it close to the spread and make calls late to make people think that you favored the team that won when you made calls to prevent a blowout. Allegedly. (Gambling degenerates will note how many flags thrown by the ref whose crew worked Chiefs/Jets) So.. In other words.. the NWA champion showed up in the territory, the local hero took them 60 minutes, and if not for that ref, Rufus R. Jones woulda won the title.

I read tweets about how gambling outlets were having problems inspiring anybody to put their money on the Jets. Just thought of that after a game where the Jets scored 20 points including 12 points directly off of dodgy calls (a safety on a facemask that didn't start in the end zone, the field goal on the drive after the safety, and a TD on a drive where the refs ignored a facemask to call a nonexistent horse collar) So if you’re one of the gambling partners of the NFL, the result is probably helpful enough. The 96% of people putting their money on the Chiefs lost their money without the Chiefs losing and people think the Chiefs stole it instead of it being a primetime game point shave. So maybe some of them will bet their money on the other side next time around. Plus they have a few more primetime Jets games and people gotta believe that the Jets can compete or else they won’t watch. Anyways, aren’t NFL officials still parttimers with weekday jobs and LinkedIn pages?

3 of the next 4 Chiefs games are against the Vikings and Broncos. So certainly that'll be fun and not at all annoying.

"For you, the game where you outplayed Mahomes was the most important game of your life. But for me, it was Sunday Night" The Chiefs have had 3 meh offensive games and 3 wins. I believe that's called grit if it's not done by the defending champs. Also, I'd be a terrible head coach because I'd want to score the TD to make it 30-20 if the other coach got a flag thrown on him while we were taking knees.

Either Mahomes is playing like he has a concussion or Andy Reid needs to tell Matt Nagy better plays to run

the no-call on the facemask does make one understand why they decided that other facemask started in the endzone when it didn't, maybe they just don't know what facemasking looks like

not sure i've ever seen a horse collar call with no horse collar while the victim is committing facemasking

as a Chiefs fan, this is a hilariously stress-free game to watch