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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!

They need to have a duck character who Rubble gives an envelope full of cash to every week, you know so everything on the job site works smoothly.

T-Mobile's free MLB.TV subscription is now redeemable from today until April 1, not sure what plans get it though.

Doc was way to broken down for any kind of long run, everyone seems to think 1998 Doc was 1988 Doc, he wasn't. Also, there was no real opening for Doc to feud with Austin in that 1998/1999 fall/winter/spring, the Stone Cold-Undertaker-Kane feud ran to the end of the year, then the build for Austin-Rock at Wrestlemania started, the Austin-Vince matches during that timeframe were part of the build to Mania, Doc has no place expect for a random match on Raw.

They didn't really steal fights from Las Vegas(AC didn't really become a player for big fights until later in the 80's) they had Coetzee fights since he was South African and non-marquee weight divisions like cruiserweight, those fights would be off strip at places like the Showboat or during the afternoon at some random arena so it could be on CBS or ABC. Hogan did work Sun City against Terry Funk in 1982, the poster is floating around the internet, it was playing off his Rocky III fame. I don't think the WWF was even on South African tv back then, remember they didn't get television until 1976 and what they did get was limited since the government controlled it. Vince most likely never had to deal with that dilemma since they didn't have tv there, even then I don't think he'd ship Hogan off for a random payday when he was drawing huge houses in North American arenas, he pulled Hogan from New Japan and never sent him overseas until business was down after the Gulf War angle.

What was going on with Sun City in the 80's was totally different than what Saudi Arabia is doing today. Remember Sun City was basically a casino/golf resort similar to what you'd see in Las Vegas at the time, that's why the majority of acts they were booking like Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli were also playing Vegas and Atlantic City, they had boxing for the same reason Las Vegas does, it brings in the high rollers. Yes the South African government was using what was going on in Sun City to improve their image, but they weren't throwing around the type of money Saudi Arabia is today, it was more "see Dolly Parton" is preforming at our version of the Desert Inn or there's a big fight at our version of Caesars Palace.

Larry Holmes refused to fight Coetzee in Sun City, when they decided to have the fight in Las Vegas the financial backing fell through. It would have taken a lot of money for Vince to let Hogan go over to South Africa, the WWF's house show business with Hogan on top was printing money, that's pretty much the reason Hogan stopped doing the New Japan tours. I could see Vince sending Andre, Studd and a mishmash of low carders over though.

Doc's jock sniffers in the company like JR, Pritchard and Corny are the only ones pushing the Doc was going to feud with Austin take, I'm sure they were constantly in Vince's ear about it but it was never going to happen. Austin was super selective on who he worked with during that time and vetoed Jarrett, Gunn, and maybe a few others, that's why he had so many ppv main events against Undertaker and Foley up to his time off for the neck surgery. Also, if Vince has final say and he totally would have gone with someone that was his "own" creation like Billy Gunn not big in Japan broken down Doc.

Yale! Had them winning this game in my bracket! Also great to see scumbags like Pearl and Calipari get bounced in the 1st round.

In his hometown too!

YouTube also punished me by feeding me a commercial from Ragu that I totally forgot about.

I don't think EON has ever really wanted to do any spin-offs, there was some talk of one with Halle Berry's character from Die Another Day, but I kind of remember that being more just to hype that flick than them actually going through with a spinoff.