evilwaldo
-
Posts
1,818 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by evilwaldo
-
-
Romo does his homework. There are coaches that say he asks detailed questions of the coordinators during the week to understand why they are calling plays. That is why when he calls a play from the booth before the snap, Romo read the defense like he was playing and knew from his prep work what play was being called.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/sports/football/tony-romo-nfl.html
-
4
-
-
AAA announced they will be showing 30 live events this year on Twitch (Spanish channel) and running the channel streaming historical content 24/7.
They did a live TV taping on Friday.
Faby was amazing once again going full rudo. Ashley is the future of women's wrestling.
-
THe worst thing about the NFL is the announcers/media by far. They literally make games insufferable for fans.
-
I am going to the parade.
-
Just going to say that if we were healthy it would have been a blowout of the Pats. Eagles IR:
Jordan Hicks, Jason Peters, Darren Sproles, Carson Wentz, and Caleb Sturgis.
Feels great to be an Eagles fan today.
Now get ready for the biggest parade the sports world has ever seen.
-
1
-
-
-
-
The whole city is exploding right now.
-
2
-
-
We don't count that one because of the taped practices.
We did avenge that loss.
-
1
-
2
-
-
10 minutes ago, Craig H said:
Credit to evilwaldo too. He was pimping this game big time and was completely sure about the Eagles chances.
This was just like Rocky 2.
We were underdogs.
Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. 0-3 against the NFC East.
-
2 hours ago, Brian Fowler said:
Yup. But, ironically, wwe helps USA charge more for other shows, but raising their average rating.
Which is how sports broadcasting works. Sports are the loss leader which draw viewers to your other shows.
1 hour ago, Oyaji said:I feel like the wrestling fan demographic has changed so much since the territorial days. This is from a Business Insider article referencing (poorly) an article written in 2012 looking at the voting rate and political affiliation of many pro and amateur sports. WWE fans are generally likelier to be Democrats but have a dog shit voting turnout according to the graph:
I was more surprised by the UFC also being on the left side (less surprised about the turnout rate).
Remember all those posts a week ago about Vince and the XFL going for the South and the built in fanbase? Cue the screeching. Turns out the fans skew the opposite.
-----
I think they end up back with USA. The Spike reference is very good. There are going to be tons of sponsored content articles about a bidding war but how many networks want their brand of programming?
-
5 hours ago, Ace said:
Extremely unrealistic ones. As well as overly large network subscription numbers at the time. WWE isn't getting 400 million.
There'll be more of a bidding war, and a lot will depend on where UFC goes. WME/IMG is doing negotiations for both companies.
Last time, USA was the only bidder so they sat on their low bid.
I am not sure the WWE pulls in that much more than last time. They need networks interested in the demographics that they hold. Food Network, History, Discover, etc. They are all out. Does a network that leans left want right leaning fans of wrestling in this environment? Could they rope ESPN and Fox Sports into the mix? ESPN is cutting back after overpaying for all of their content and discovering that six content channels are useless when you can only watch one channel at a time.
That is the big question because those two validate WWE to some extent but Vince needs to be called entertainment for reasons.
5 hours ago, nofuture said:I think the speculation was that Facebook and Amazon would have to pony up $400 million since they're not tradition tv networks.
Internet companies need to learn to pay for content. RIght now everyone wants content and they all pay basement level prices. They have yet to learn that eyeballs equal money and the reason networks pay for sports is eyeballs. The sports contracts are loss leaders to promote programming during the week. How many shows are promoted during each football game?
-
We all we got. We all we need.
-
They have to figure the P&L in all of this. You can go to a 15k arena, seat 10k, and call it a success yet lose a ton of money because you pay for every open seat.
Even if they partner, they should stick to 10k making sure they cover costs from ticket sales. Everything else can be gravy. The point is they can sell out 10k. If they turn out 12k maybe they run another show.
The reason for this is there will be high demand due to the novelty of show in addition to the talent on the show. The next show may not sell as well in the same arena.
-
Here is the problem with Cleveland. I think Kyrie was smart getting out early.
-
1 hour ago, Brian Fowler said:
If they kept him with Gallows and Anderson, featured him on RAW regularly, and brought Rey back for a program with him, he maybe could elevate the cruiser belt.
He could be the heel that needs his heavies to protect him giving the faces a rub building them up.
-
As much as everyone will hate it with a passion, Finn should go to 205 and rebuild the place.
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
So Charlotte receives a pass? She has to do better.
They all need to do better. I don't see the problem as the girl doing the move so much as the girl on the receiving end who is supposed to be protecting her partner while she sells the move. If your partner is not going to protect you then don't do the move. It goes both ways. By now they should know who they can do high risk moves with and who they cannot. It is not like they are working together for the first time in an indy where they don't know each other.
-
34 minutes ago, Eivion said:
Because nothing he ever did in WWE showed he could be that level. If he is showing it now its because of what he has gained from his time away outside of WWE.
He was never allowed to do anything on that level. They wouldn't let him take off his Stardust facepaint much less so anything outside of comedy. It was all there as Stardust but packaged under a comedy act.
The way they used to work the crowd during tag matches from the apron and the floor was phenomenal old school work.
-
9 hours ago, Kyuubi said:
It's the structure of the match that makes it seem like a burial. Throughout the night, the hyped up Finn being the longest lasting opponent and having a performance of a lifetime. Cena is distracted and actually letting the crowd get to him. In fact, Finn was an afterthought in the match. Cena dominated the match and usually when there is a guy working heel and the guy working face is getting dominated, you'd expected some form of spurts from the face, but in the match Finn literally looked weak. Facing a visibly distracted and effected Cena(something few people faced and won with less) and still losing clean. I don't know. It just seemed like a squash burial to me if not a questionable booking decision.
Everytime Finn gets some form of momentum, it gets immediately followed by a loss of some kind. It;s weird.
The biggest heel move Cena did was allow Finn to get his offense in during the commercial break.
Talking about a person on the mic while they get little televised offense is not a push.
8 hours ago, Overly Critical Man said:Maybe Sasha should just stop doing topes.
That is more on the person who is supposed to be catching her. As for Sasha, if your partner is not going to protect you then don't do the move. That goes for the other tope gif when she jumps over her partner. She should know by now what moves to do with what partners.
-
33 minutes ago, Eivion said:
He survived an AA and took an avalanche AA to be beaten all while never getting to hit any of his finishers. Yes, he was totally buried.
He got his finishers in during the commercial break along with 75% of his offense.
29 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said:Plus, Finn went 57 minutes in the Rumble. I think they have big plans for him.
Ziggler had that massive comeback in the Survivor Series match. That worked out well.
-
Maybe they are finally building to a Cena heel turn or Cena was playing to Philly.
Finn looked small against Cena. Finn looked like a Cruiser going up against a larger heavyweight in more ways than one.
-
4 hours ago, Control said:
Serious question: at the Golden Lovers strictly platonic?
To be perfectly honest, I could care less. Great wrestler. Cool character. Seems like a great guy. Not going to change anything about how I feel regarding Kenny Omega.
-
1
-
-
The big deal on moving to a larger building might be rent. What does it cost to book venues? I heard Meltzer say once that the larger the building the much higher the rent so I don't think it is a straight line move.
The Big Game, v.52
in FOOTBALL
Posted
https://twitter.com/TripleH/status/960562920441737226