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Personally I think you guys are way over-thinking the crowd thing. It has nothing to do with people cheering because they 'appreciate what they do' or fans are smarter. People cheer the wrestler that entertains them. When I was a young kid my favorite wrestlers were Great Muta, Sting, and Vader in WCW. Two were heels. I knew of course it wasn't real but there was no Internet to tell me who Muta was or how accomplished Vader was in Japan, I liked them because I found their matches entertaining. That's it. And its not a new thing the smart internet crowd invented and I don't think its a bad thing, as long as people are having fun I don't see the big deal. Some people go to the movies to watch the villains, fans shouldn't feel obligated to boo someone just because they are a heel, they aren't a paid studio audience.

Pancakes are for winning cats ONLY!

In Tabe's NFL, asking for a flag is a 10-yard penalty. I'm dead serious about that.

*smokes cigarette while blindfolded in front of the firing squad* Dear football fans We are gathered here today To get through this thing called the NFL season All-consuming presence the NFL It means old white men getting richer and that's not going to change But I'm here to tell you There's something else Meeting the Patriots A world of never ending sadness and rage You can always see Tom Brady's smug face, day or night So when you call up your drug dealer in Indianapolis You know the one, Dr. Here's the Suitcase of Quaalades You Ordered Instead of asking him how bad will the beatdown be Ask him how much of your pride will be left, baby 'Cause in this league Not many things are much harder than beating a mad Patriots team In this league You're on your own And if other teams' fans try to bring you down Tell 'em to FUCK OFF, because you're about to start drinking

Once the kicking team touches it it's a dead ball. That's what I got. I think there's a rule quirk in there that the receiving team can try to advance it but cannot fumble it. Which seems idiotic but I think Aikman said it. Speaking of idiotic, Cam Heyward was fined 5k for writing Iron Head on his eye black in honor of his dad who died of cancer - you know, during Cancer Awareness month. So today....he has Iron Head written in his eye black. Fuck you, Goodell.

*grammar Atrocious.

Holy shit that shirt is so 80s if you hold it up to your ear, you faintly hear "Africa" by Toto.

If you ask anyone around the Mets who the single nicest most decent human being in the whole organization is they will tell you Daniel Murphy. So can we please can the ginned up outrage?

Imagine if the refs hadn't screwed the Lions...

Was the goat also a homophobic piece of shit?

PANTS MOTHERFUCKING FREE

Same here. I think the real problem with not letting guys "heel it up" is that it limits your options to protect a heel. For the most part, the WWE doesn't let guys heel it up too overtly. You don't see too many guys cheating, putting feet on ropes, trying to leave the ring, going for a chair, pulling the ref, etc. There aren't too many managers anymore and those that are around don't interfere in matches much (Lana). And there aren't a lot of stables or teams anymore. Taken together, that limits your options in a match. The options for most of the roster are heel pins babyface or babyface pins heel. Since heels don't win a lot of matches clean, they end up dropping too many falls I really wish someone like Rusev had a Sherri Martel in his corner instead of Lana. Sherri knew how to be a heel manager. She'd work overtime to distract the ref or interject herself every time Rusev seemed about to eat a pin. He'd still lose a lot of matches - by DQ - but he'd probably be better off than he is getting pinned by multiple times by Ziggler or Cena whenever the writers can't think of a more creative outcome.

MARTAVIS BRYANT MOTHERFUCKERS! This is the most heroic performance by a guy named Landry since Landry Clarke kicked that field goal to send the Dillon Panthers to state.

That small moon?

The NFL is at the point where the rules are so vague that the league can determine the outcome of games. Remember, wrestling is fake.

It really bothers me that heels don't wrestle like heels. Cheating, choking,old school eyes rakes on ring ropes and boot laces etc.

Arguably, heels should not be entertaing enough for fans to want to cheer them.

Well I think a major reason entertaining heels are being cheered more is due to a lack of good babyfaces. Sasha got booed plenty when she heeled on Bayley, but is anyone going to care if she attacks Charlotte or Paige on the main roster? There's no likeable entertaining faces to balance things. New Day has 10 times the personality of most of the people they go up against. They made Cena feel ancient when they were clowning him, and Cena was standing there like get off my lawn New Day. Of course these acts are going to be cheered over bland babyfaces.

Percy Harvin is injured and expected to miss significant time. This is not a re-post from 2014. Or 2013. Or 2012.

All I can say is God bless Terry Funk. I'm proud to say that I got to drink a beer with Terry Funk once. One thing off of the bucket list.

Happy 30th Birthday to the NES!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I252sKM2CY4

Mr. Wrestling Tim Woods, with 4 7/8ths of his fingers on his left hand after a mark bit the tip of his finger off in one of those old time "wrestler challenges any fan in the audience" shoots.

Because Muta doesn't keep the mist in his penis?

We get it, you don't like Daniel Murphy. . . #broken record. . . .

#yearofthemets

WHOOOOOOOO~!!!! *Ric Flair strut* WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!!!!!

So it's time we seriously discuss Seattle possibly not even making the playoffs.

The discussion is not about any restriction of free will on whom you can like or how you can react, but on the classic heel/face dynamic and how booking can or can't affect audience reaction. It appears that people are not reacting emotionally to the classic booking structure, but are choosing who they favor by how accomplished a performer a worker is. How do you account for that? How does that change who gets pushed? Who is in control here? heavy, RAF

I've never missed Kelvin Benjamin more than I do right now.

I love football. 1-0 in the Campbell era!

WE WANT TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT CANCER, BUT NOT TOO MUCH BECAUSE TOO MUCH COULD BE DANGEROUS WHAT IF CANCER FINDS OUT WE'RE ONTO IT

So I got an iPhone 6s Plus. I'm coming from a Nexus 6 and I do like it. Some random thoughts: The camera is great. My Android phone history is this: Original Motorola Droid on Verizon from 2009, Galaxy Nexus, 2013 Moto X and the Nexus 6. None of those phones had a great camera. The N6 was capable of producing good photos, but it had to be in good lighting and preferably of a non-moving object. The shutter speed was very long on it which made taking quality shots of a lot of stuff quite difficult. I thought it was overall a good camera until I started using this. From what I've read, the current iPhone 6s+ camera is slightly behind the Galaxy S6/Note 5 phones, but I'm OK with that. iMessage is also great. I work in a building where cell phone service is a disaster, so being able to use iMessage to send texts to other iMessage users over WiFi helps negate that aspect. The battery is really strong, better than my N6 which I thought had pretty good battery life. I would imagine this is probably the best battery you'll find on a smartphone except for the Droid Maxx/Turbo phones. The screen is great. I didn't expect it to be so sharp considering my N6 had a QHD screen, but wow. The build quality is really nice and the thing feels great in-hand, not to mention very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The operating system is very pretty. Android has come a LONG way from making their OS seem more user friendly and appealing, but Apple just gets it. That said, I notice some stuttering/judder/whatever you wanna call it on transitions, so it's not perfect and any Apple user who calls out Android for being laggy is either lying or living in 2010. I hate Apple's homescreen/lack of app drawer. Creating folders is far more difficult on iOS than on Android. Also, Android's app drawer is way more convenient to use than scrolling through all the homescreens looking for a particular app. I don't like that I can't set a vibrate-only alarm on iOS. I have to either buy a $1.99 silent ringtone or go through a process of creating one on my own. I can set a silent alarm but that's not what I need. I also don't like that with 3rd party alarm clocks, you have to leave them running in the background in order for them to work 100% because Apple is Apple. I miss having a front facing speaker. I feel like the quality of the speaker on the bottom is nice, but it's really not loud at all. So why'd I make the switch to my first iPhone after having an Android for nearly 6 years? Part boredom with using the same OS for such a long time, partly because everyone raves about iMessage, large part because I wanted a good camera but didn't want to sacrifice stock software (sorry, Samsung. I know TouchWiz is better but it's either Nexus or bust for me). I like the iPhone, I really do. I could see myself stick with it for a while but could also see myself going back to Android down the road. Don't kill me, guys.

I wonder who is getting punished for that picture getting out???

This show literally opened with Trips and Stephanie phoning it in.

A heel can "get heat" (elicit negative emotions from the crowd that express themselves via booing, hurling insults/debris/weapons, charging the ring, etc.by his/her actions, personality or words) or "have heat" (be in a state of active crowd disapproval by previous actions or current angles/booking). Thus, the heel on top portion of a match is referred to at the "heat segment". A babyface get "get his/her shine" by reversing the heel or in the comeback segment, but there is no such thing as "having shine". I witnessed a local top baby go over a match with Greg Valentine once in the locker room. GV nodded his head a few times at the youngster's ideas, but as soon as the lad walked away, The Hammer turned to the promoter and said "What the f*ck is babyface heat?". The promoter was flummoxed and nonplussed. Wrestlespeak is very subtle in its usage. It appears simplistic since several terms refer to disparate things, but that just makes proper usage important, and indeed can identify a greenhorn to a vet. - RAF

Now I wish that happened too. Would've been an incredible pop at SummerSlam, with the proper music/entrance. That'd be one hell of a fun six man street fight.

Apparently he is just one hell of a nice old guy. A buddy of mine has a summer place up past Bemidji, MN and the Baron is his next door neighbor. He sets up a lemonade and sandwich stand with wrestling memorabilia and will just sit there and shoot the breeze with folk. My pal is the County Medical Examiner, I have to imagine that he and the Baron have some fascinating conversations.

Wow, that's just offensive. If I were a wrestler, I could never work for a promoter who would send out a message like that. I mean, how am I supposed to believe you can run a competent promotion when your grammer is that atrocious?

I'll make a statement about ratings here: Is it even possible to compare ratings now vs. even 10 years ago? The rise of internet streaming means that fewer people are watching TV period. RAW is a top 20 show both among 18-49 year olds and overall (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/10/13/cable-weekly-top-25-the-walking-dead-is-no-1-for-oct-5-11-2015-ahs-hotel-opens-well/478339/) and they're getting beat mostly by sports and The Walking Dead. Could it be better? Yes, but there's no reason for WWE to panic yet and they likely won't change until the ratings really tank.

Since I know there are some Meiko Satomura fans on the board, here is her match on 10/11 against Hamada: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39xbsc_ayako-hamada-vs-meiko-satomura-in-sendai-girls-on-10-11-15_tv

According to Yahoo, Lamar Odom is conscious and breathing on his own.

And that is all the people need to know.

Shall we schedule a shopping trip next week, just us girls? You can get your hair done, and I'll try to find something that matches my tattoos. I'll get Andrew over so his chick ("Drewina") on my account can join y'all.