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He had an on-again, off-again feud with DX , who were the biggest non-NWO group in the world at the time, including PPV matches against X-Pac (hair-vs-hair), a 6 man with the group sans HHH, and another against the NAO. At the end of the run (as his contract was running out) he was used to get Mongo over. But prior to that, he was involved in angles with The Four Horsemen and Ric Flair, as well as an on-air suggestion that he was being heavily recruited by the NWO. There's no question Jarrett was rocketed up the card too quickly in WCW, but it's not quite as quick as you suggest and not all at Russo's behest. He came in the mid-card under Russo, then started feuding (a little) with World Champion Sid while Russo was gone, so he'd already been elevated into the main event scene well before Russo and Bischoff came back. You also have to understand the point of Jarrett as a top heel in WCW. Most of WCW's heels were way over (Nash, Steiner, Goldberg, all had unsuccesful heel runs, largely because the crowd wouldn't stop cheering them) and you couldn't get the crowd to boo them. They were all too happy to boo Jarrett, so he had some value as a foil for the babyfaces, someone the crowd won't suddenly decide to cheer for against the guy you're pushing as a hero. He should have stayed pretty constantly around the World Title scene until Lance Storm was ready to take over that mantle, because he wasn't in any danger of turning himself face the way the more popular heels often did. That last part makes a ton of sense and I never really looked at things from that perspective. Of course, there are varying degrees of boo. "Boo!" because this perennial WWE midcard rinky dink hick is suddenly winning the world title every other week with an eighties international object isn't necessarily good heat. Did anyone want to see Honky Tonk Man barge into WCW circa '89 or '90 and take the title off Steamboat and Sting via guitar shots? Not to downgrade Jarrett mind you who's had a much longer and well rounded career than HTM who was a flash in the pan. But that's just to illustrate how I felt about Jarrett at the time. It was just all too random and all too silly. Those kind of wacky slapnuts hijinks should've been relegated to the U.S. Title or even the Television Title. Because to me and I'm sure many others it just made the World Title and WCW as a whole seem rinky dink that Jarrett was winning or losing the belt every three to six weeks and winning it with the same lame guitar shot.

This is a fun game. Truth.....I saw Catwoman in the theater because I had a free pass to. There were literally two other people in the theater besides me. Even though it was free, the movie was so bad that I felt ripped off. And even though the other two people were seeing the same movie I was, I was embarrassed that other humans saw me in that theater. THAT is how I imagine going to a TNA show these days feels. Ho boy, do I got some strange ones. Natural Born Killers when I was 13 with my folks and little brother with maybe four other people in the theater. Nope, my parents weren't the types to win any good parenting awards. And The Mist with my brother and two other people in the theater.

^ This is a good example of revisionist history. In 1999, Jarrett was very over as Intercontinental Champion. He had just come off a tag team with Owen Hartthat was pretty over and had feuded with Edge and D'Lo Brown over the summer. The woman beater gimmick only really started in the last 2 months of his run in the WWF. I honestly can't think of a time when Jarrett was given a chance to work in the upper card during his WWF tenure. In 2000 WCW, Jarrett was one of the few bright spots and get shafted because he's so closely associated with the shitstorm that was WCW 2000. As for Chyna, she was briefly the #1 contender for the WWF Championship in August of that year and went on to feud with Chris Jericho after the Jarrett feud. The whole point of that feud was Chyna rising above the patriarchy and defeating the asshole. Who's the highest profile guy Jarrett ever feuded with in the WWE? HBK in the mid-nineties well before Michaels had risen up the card? What about his previous stint in WCW? Who was he even primarily feuding with? Mongo McMichael? I rest my case. He was a career midcarder until his return to WCW in 2000. Jarrett jammed in all of the sudden as lead heel beating people with Honky Tonk Man's guitar shots was shit for even the massive flustercluck that was WCW 2000. Now it could've been somewhat fun if Jarrett was doing his hokey little cornball heel act as US Champ but he was dragging down the World Title with that goofy shit every week. That's not to say WCW wasn't doing other things much, much worse. But Jarrett suddenly rising to top heel was a joke after so long as utilitarian midcard act in both WWE and his previous WCW stint. I-C Champ was the kayfabe no. 1 contender for the World Title? Well...duh. But was it treated as such on their actual TV programs or only just in Apter mags? I sure don't remember them ever teasing that Chyna might rise beyond the I-C Title.

Wasn't Jarrett basically a comedy act on his way out of the WWE? IC Champ sure but at that point the belt was sort of a novelty to experiment with Chyna's drawing power. Losing a "good housekeeping match" to her in his last match is close enough to comedy for me. Nobody wanted the likes of Chyna or Jarrett near the World Title at any time in the WWE but at least Chyna was given the belt as a sort of a trial whereas a guy like Jarrett was simply maxing out his upward mobility at that section of the midcard. As for Stone Cold nixing a program with Jarrett, there was as little reason or interest for a Stone Cold/Jarrett program as there was him feuding with Road Dogg or Billy Gunn. Jarrett was just some midcard cracker not worth Austin's time. So what does idiot Vince Russo do to make WCW look as bush league as possible? Give this corny wannabe badass version of Jarrett (with side of HTM tribute act) a bunch of short World Title runs to devalue that belt as much as possible. Come to think of it the WCW Title might as well have been the USWA Unified Championship the way it switched from week to week and sometimes hour to hour. Between that and the way Bret Hart bounced between face and heel and up and down the card from World Title to US Title level Russo sure was the drizzling shits at utilizing these guys he'd already booked in the WWE.

And since Triple H won, it failed at even that. I disagree insofar as the match was obviously a showcase for BLARGGGH nefarious mastermind Triple H to wipe his cunning prick BLARGGGH all over Goldberg's veneer of invulnerability. Goldberg taking out three other guys in rapid fashion beforehand just made Triple's prick all the more glistening once his devious machinations came to fruition. It's like nothing was learned at all from the cattle prod ripoff dipshit Nash perpetrated as booker. Allegedly. "YERPA DERPA....we have no idea how to end the streak so why not just do this insipid bullshit that immediately leads nowhere the very next night? Just as well."

To be fair Benoit and Batista’s wins over Triple H were greatly enhanced and came off as much bigger deals precisely because of all those perceived burials (Jericho, Booker T, RVD, "fuck you and your bogus title too, rookie bitch Brock, I’m pulling Big Gold out of my ass and declaring myself real champ." ) and constant dickish feud-deciding blowoff match wins (Austin, Angle, Kane) that had bolstered him during that five-year stretch. Unless I’m misremembering everybody was also sure he was going over Cena at WM XXII….also precisely because all those big matches and feuds he went over in previously up to that point. So when you look at it that way it made it a much bigger deal when guys did decisively go over Triple H and in some strange way justified that he hadn’t dropped the belt to Booker T or RVD and shit on Goldberg and his profitability with his lame sledgehammer shot at Summerslam that one time. Of course, by now semi-retired Triple H going over the likes of Punk and Brock is just flatout ego-stroking rubbish on his part. It’s TNA Champ Jeff Jarrett type dread heat where no one wants to see the knob go over and it serves absolutely no purpose other than to remind you what a bona fide hot shit big shot the Game always has been and always will be.

Just how in the hell does a game get FIXED 43-8?

I've always detested Brady so that's made me a de facto boltneck guy. Broncos; 23-16. Besides I'm tired of the whole "tarnished legacy/playoff pedestrian" talking point. It will be much more interesting to see Peyton come back next season and shoot for back-to-back titles and tie Brady for three apiece than the Seahawks winning and/or Peyton done did gone and fucked himself in the big game once again.

Bitchtitsta looks to be in the early stages of Lex Luger Syndrome. That Rumble could've easily been salvaged if they just went with the easy option of calling an audible and having Reigns toss out that old withered up dog.

I maintain the Tuck Rule Coupon game is still the much bigger travesty. As shady as the calls were in Super Bowl XL the final score was still 21-10 which in many ways means it wasn't much worse than the recent Panthers/9ers Divisional game. All we really know is if all those shady calls don't go against the Seahawks, it's a close game with no real indicator of who wins. On the other hand, once Brady isn't bailed out by some archaic crock of shit rule after the strip/sack by Charles Woodson we know the Raiders kneel down, run the clock out and eliminate those assholes. So......Pot. Kettle. Black.

The name of the game is build from the inside out. As long as the Cowboys field the same trash in the trenches (Hatcher is likely gone) adding a solid safety will only improve them so much. The Cowboys have to be one of the most arrogant and ignorant front offices out there constantly drafting tight end and linebacker toys in the 2nd round while only addressing safety and D-line with mid-round and beyond jabronies. If it isn't Dix in the first round, I have no problem with them drafting another offensive tackle since that's where the quality is in this draft. DT is a glaring need but if these guys wouldn't take Floyd in last year's draft (who they had high on their own board) I wouldn't force DL in the first round of this draft either. However it goes, they're not a player away so pure BPA is the best way to go in the first round.

Since somebody already brought up the whole concept of "The Undertaker" being a mantle that should be passed on to another wrestler.....which let's face it would never fly in the current era.....it made me consider another hypothetical. If the other white meat Sheamus came along two or three generations/eras earlier wouldn't he be much better off long-term given "The Undertaker" gimmick than the pasty upper card placeholder he currently is by just being himself? Because to me he's no more distinct a top face fit to be the guy than Hacksaw Jim Duggan or Brutus Beefcake were back in the day. To me his clasp on the now defunct Smackdown B World Title only went to show how diluted things are in the current WWE where they don't want anybody to get too over but they'd pick his bland ass to have that 2nd or 3rd spot from the top on lockdown (Cena, Orton/Punk.....Sheamus.) Sheamus will certainly be better served to turn heel and wreck some fools upon his return. If the rumors about Sheamus/Bryan at WM it does make sense he'd be the Authority's next chosen one.

Yeah, but I also doubt that Little Billy from Kansas can make heads or tails of all the self-indulgent snarky smark bullshit references CM Punk AssMotherFucker drops into his promos either. "Colt Cabana Boy; who the fuck is that, mommy?"

Since I'm assuming that was their 2nd WM match where 'Taker was allegedly willing to do the honors, that Kane rumor makes no sense. I mean hadn't Triple H already unmasked therefore deballed him by then anyways? Ending the streak wasn't going to do shit for Kane. Besides he and Big Show were settled well into their Kolchak phases by then where they'd be the monster of the month at best whenever the champ had nobody else to face on some filler PPV. So Kane ever being considered to end the streak was kind of ludicrous.

If Brock had properly brutefucked Triple H and Punk like the corny pushovers they are (well, compared to Brock anyways) Bryan would've gotten just as much out of a win over him at WM. And if Brock wrecks some top guys on the road to 'Mania, it would still be a big deal for Bryan to pick up a win over him at 'Mania.

The only way somebody might get made by ending the streak is if after it reaches a nice round 25-0 in 'Taker's final match; he goes and stays away for a year or two, long enough to put out a commemorative 25-0 boxset then 3-4 WrestleManias later some uberdouche goads him into coming out of retirement to defend the streak. Which probably isn't feasible in the slightest. I mean if you trotted out 'Taker every six to eight months for the occasional special cameo appearance match (just to make sure he doesn't totally erode and break down physically over that span) you kill the whole mystique of having him really and truly retired and the streak set in stone. I don't believe the streak should end either. And definitely not to some wretch like C.M. Punk last year..... or an injury prone pile of blubber like Bray Wyatt whose shelf life is shorter-lived in his current gimmick than everybody thinks. If anybody ended it I'd like it to be some brand new coked out superhero type but the WWE doesn't even make those molds anymore.

It looked like less of a spike and more of an (attempted) flying stomp to the piledrivee's ass. And I can't stop busting a gut laughing about how ridiculous the whole mess looks. So there's that at least.

I just want Peyton to win another one so he doesn't need to throw for 70 TD's and 7,000 yards to feel good about himself next regular season.

Guess Peyton didn't lose all those homedome advantage games where the Colts only scored 16 and 18 points because his puffers could just bitch about the defense and idiot liquoured up kicker.

But just imagine what kind of humiliating kick in the crotch it will be next weekend when Smith outduels ChromeDome.

Nah. The Rams released Warner outright because they didn’t want to keep paying a used up guy for past accomplishments and were ready to move on. Warner: busted hand, 0-7 record in his last seven starts as a Ram and his game was straight trash: 4 TD passes, 12 INT, 5 fumbles lost. Because even alleged turnover machines like Romo and Cutler produce twice as many positive plays; which Warner didn’t do during that messy middle of his career. You seem to have somehow misremembered Warner as having Brees’ basic career. Nope. Three years of all-time greatness, four years of journeyman shittyness with a busted hand then lack of confidence; then three years of elite play punctuated by an almost Super Bowl Championship run. Honestly the situations couldn’t be any more different; the Rams told a two-time league MVP to “hit the bricks, pal; you’re the shits!” While the Bears are paying a guy whose teams have never really won anything because they fully believe his best days are still ahead of him. The other major point you seem to be going for is how sorry the Rams were for parting ways with Warner which doesn’t really make a lick of sense because to reiterate he flat-out sucked for almost three seasons after they released him. And they replaced Warner with Bulger who was at least as solid a starter as Schaub had been for the Texans prior to this season; the Rams were 18-4 with Bulger in ’02 and ’03 including a close playoff loss as the 2nd seed in the ’04 playoffs to the Panthers. Bulger was actually 36-24 up through ’06 as a starter. Bulger was probably only ever a borderline top ten guy but he certainly wasn’t a chump like Ryan Shitzpatrick who got rich off one good September. Where the Rams missed was picking the wrong draft to pass on a franchise QB. They should’ve drafted Ryan in ’08. Otherwise they were alright at QB pretty much through the whole period where Warner still stank while his hand healed and then he still had to get his mojo back. Really, Cutler (or Stafford for that matter) are different kind of investments than Warner or even Romo because they’re guys with world class Elway/Favre type rocket launchers for arms which for as injury prone as they have been those arms will last them well into their late 30’s. Conversely if something is seriously wrong with Romo’s back (and there were whispers that it was a lingering issue for him all season being the cause for overly conservative passing gameplans) that’s trouble for a guy who’s never had great velocity in the first place. Of course, I mostly believe Cutler and Stafford are just Jeff Georgian idiots but then again if Flacco could get hot for a month so could they.

But Warner was the drizzling shits from '02-'05; and was still an erratic turnover machine well into his Cards stint where he was stuck as a veteran mentor/placeholder type for bust boy Leinart after having just done the same for Eli. When the Rams shed Warner as their starter he wasn't one of the top 15-20 QB's in the league but Bulger was. Good for him that he had that great playoff run with the Cardinals (that clinched him the HOF) or his career would've been a real uneven mess to sift through after his first three meteoric seasons with the Rams. But his departure from the Rams was just as much "Kurt's shitty now and we found the new Kurt in the form of Bulger" than a contract issue.

39 totes for no. 29 and the Cowboys have a good shot. With no Romo that candy colored assclown Garrett won't outsmart himself into thinking he can call a pass heavy gameplan like he and Romo are Payton/Brees.

Not only does Jason Garrett look like Ronald McDonald; he possesses about the same situational awareness as the Big Mac peddling clown. "Process" is apparently still being able to blow a 26-3 lead two seasons and change after the Jets and Lions debacles and to team's back-up QB's at that. But I guess they're at least good enough to even get those big leads (this season) which is an improvement over 2012 where they were the ones digging big holes.....and failing to climb out of them. As for Romo, it's not just the unfortunate picks at the worst times. It's the way he more or less bitch-armed several other makeable deep throws late that could've iced that game; throws a 108 million dollar man is supposed to make. Still if the likes of Brees couldn't get blamed much for last season's 7-9 Saints mark because of having to overcome such an abysmal defense and lack of a head coach (applies to Jerry's mascot clown also) you have to cut Romo some slack.

That would be the best set-up for Bryan to get the belt back and kind of wrap up "The Authority" tedium.....beating dickhead Unified King of Kings Champion Triple H at WM.