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Turner was kind of doing that since he couldn't boot the WWF until the original contract GCW had with WTBS expired, but it didn't really matter to Vince since re-running tapes of matches from other arenas and the occasional in studio match were cheap, plus he was keeping the competition off the #1 cable channel during a prime time slot. Crockett really wasn't in any position to influence Turner to "wait things out" he didn't get pulled into it until late in the game when Jim Barnett looking to sell the time slot, if he didn't buy it someone else would have.

It’s Your Move starring Jason Bateman was on Wednesdays at 9:30 after Facts of Life, it was cancelled in early 1985 so it wasn’t getting any kind of ratings. There was a show Grand that got a 15 rating purely by getting the golden timeslot on Thursday nights between Cheers and LA Law, I don’t remeber it at all and like most of America I was watching NBC from 8 to 9:30 on Thursdays, used to watch it from 8 to 10 but they moved Night Court to Wednesdays a few years before.

I remember it being a good show.

WWOR was the #2 Superstation until the syndication exclusivity law was passed in the early 90’s, that law hit them the hardest since they relied on reruns way more than WTBS or WGN.

A Face in the Crowd is on tomorrow night at 8pm, if you’ve never seen it watch it!

The flashback of Sandman building the cross was hysterical.

Even as a kid it bothered me they were playing in blue jeans.

Why would anyone need an app for this kind of betting amongst friends, co-workers, and so on? The "bet ya $10 on pop-a-shot basketball or air hockey" has been going on forever.

I think any city with some history of Italian-American Immigrants has a Roma Bakery or two.

That whole bit is an easy way to establish if someone is a face or heel when they join the promotion. I always loved the theme music for All American Wrestling, it’s from the same library NFL Films used and you can hear bits and pieces of it in a lot of their shows.

USC was punished more harshly by the NCAA for Bush getting money from an agent than UNC did for systematic academic fraud and Penn State for covering up children being raped in the locker rooms.

It looks like a Carolina Panthers uniform.

Albert Brooks Real Life is on tonight at 11:30pm and set your DVR’s for Penn & Teller Get Killed at 4:15am, both worth a first watch or rewatch.

That had nothing to do with any type of control the Von Erich’s had, per the Iceman they paid the cops $1,000 each, cops everywhere did and still do things like that.

The people who buy officially licensed replica belts already have those, a lot of them will now go out and buy this one.

I’m a huge Blur fan and was scratching my head when I saw them billed in large letters for Coachella this past weekend, then I wasn’t shocked at all that the crowd of 20something influencers didn’t really care when they played. If Coachella was around for the height of Britpop in 1994/1995 Blur still wouldn’t have gotten any big reaction.

O.J. Simpson is dead. https://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-former-football-star-acquitted-murder-dies/story?id=16354000

Back then there wasn't the manufactured outrage by the right that there is now, but I'm sure Lorne got called to the carpet for it, that's when GE who had massive military contracts owned NBC.

MST3K riffed it back in the day, think it was one of the first Mike Nelson episodes.

The Tropicana which is located on the site of the stadium closed on Tuesday, so things are kind of moving.

Haven't seen Cocktail in ages but remember it being total Regan era propaganda like Ferris Bueller, even though Cruise's character turns down a payoff from Shue's dad.

Know one knew Flaherty was playing this as a drunk until the editing room.

Was Bruno originally scheduled to be in the match, he was doing a decent amount of fill in duty during this time.

There was also a lot of antisemitic things said in that one, here’s a transcript. https://www.latimes.com/la-gibson1aug01-transripit-story.html

This looks like the type of ridiculous I love!