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Andre taking a back body drop from Jerry Blackwell was pretty impressive. Is Dusty speaking French? I was always jealous of the kids at TV tapings who could run up to the ring for an autograph or even climb up on the apron. Always love the interviews with random fans from back in the day, everyone is either embarrassed, drunk or terrified of the camera. Giant Baba is dressed like the main bookie in my old neighborhood! Watts wearing Andre's sports jacket is such a brilliant thing to do, everyone watching Mid-South knew Bill Watts was a HOSS, and he looked like a little boy wearing his dad's clothes.

What would Vince have "bought out" from The Sheik? The Detroit territory stopped running shows in 1980 and I think hadn't run Cobo and lost TV in maybe 1977.

The WWF territory when Vince took over wasn't the smallest, it was actually pretty big, New England, the Eastern half of New York State, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. They ran the big cities in all of those places, but also ran the medium sized ones all the way down to random high schools in small towns. NASCAR never really "blew up nationally" it built up its popularity from when ABC started showing races on Wide World of Sports in the early 1960's to the mid-90's when Indy Car racing shot itself in the dick and split into two leagues, by 1999 it was the only auto racing average Americans cared or even knew about.

Did the "You're with me leather" thing even happen? Wasn't that story in an article that was pretty much Deadspin's version of the sleaze thread?

There's been various leaks on social media showing grownup Bobby and Connie, so everyone has aged.

They were never a huge band and bounced around various labels both big & small over the years, so there's a lot of randomness to their releases.

That's also how it worked in Pittsburgh, the final match was usually the number 2 or 3 face going over a heel Backlund had already beaten. The main event before intermission was also because the crowd was less drunk and not as much of a threat to riot when the heel got heat on Bruno, Pedro or Backlund.

The that was the WWWF/WWF formula dating back to when Bruno won the belt in 1963, same thing for Morales, Backlund and then for Hogan the first few years.

Really wanted Tocchet to be the Pens new coach.

It was rare back then for the WWF to put a heel over a mid-card and up face without some sort of shenanigans.

They should go with HBO Max Dugan Returns, since that movie was on HBO every day in 1985.

I always pictured McBride as Jimmy Garvin.

Yes, the single for Captain Lou came out in 1982, this LP was kind of compilation since Me and the Boys was released as a single in 1980.

Has there been any reason given on why they play overseas two weeks in a row? Pretty lame that their fans have two weeks of 8:30AM kickoffs.

The only arena in Detroit besides Little Caesars is the Wayne State Fieldhouse, it holds maybe 2,500, I think TNA did a show their last year. It looks just like any other small college basketball arena, AEW made the right move using the Masonic.

Watched DIG! XX the somewhat re-edited/extended version of the 2004's DIG!, which follows then up and coming bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Dandy Warhols, both versions are currently available on Kanopy. If you're a fan of the original this new version is a must watch, there's new narration from BJM's Joel Gion to give insight & backgrounds on their side of things, to go along with the Dandy's Courtney Taylor-Taylor's original narration. Plus extended footage of the famous incidents from the original, some current day interviews from folks involved and a less depressing ending that catches up with the bands today. When I first saw there was going to be an updated version, all of the interviews and social media snippets made it seem like they'd show The Brian Jonestown Massacre's leader Anton Newcombe in a better light, it really didn't. The addiction, self-absorption, ego, and resentment still shines through, they do show a few clips of him sober back in the day, he comes off as a totally different person and its sad to see what the booze & drugs did to him. He did get his life together but he's still getting into If you've never seen the original version watch it first then come back the the new one later. I think the last time I watched DIG! was early in the pandemic, it was a fun nostalgia trip since I'm a huge fan of The Dandy Warhols and the doc is straight up hysterical at points. Watching the new version its still really funny, but wow does it feel even more like a late 90's/early 2000's version of Spinal Tap, the Brian Jonestown Massacre arguments and on-stage fights almost come off as performance art, but their totally legit and what happens when you mix ego, booze, meth and smack.

AEW this week will be at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, it's a really cool unique building and I'm interested if they'll incorporate it at all. There's a bunch of weird rooms where the Freemason's do whatever they do and there's things like a pool on maybe the 7th floor that never got finished because someone realized when it was filled with water it'd crash through celling below. I coach roller derby and we practice/play at the Masonic, we have practice Thursday night right above the theater AEW will be using.

John C. Reilly is hysterical in Cedar Rapids.

Jimmy Snuka when I was 8, pretty much every kid around my age was also cheering for him over Bob Backlund. About a year later Don Muraco was the first heel I cheered for that did all the heel bs to piss off the fans and he was great at it!

A reminder the record companies back then released very limited physical copies of singles for rock bands, compared to other genres like Pop, Rap, R&B and Country. So that #8 for Wonderwall was almost purely based on radio play and Champagne Supernova wasn't even released as a single for sale US, it just got tons of radio play to drive album sales.

Any chance Winter Games is based on the old Commodore 64 game? I mean they're making an OutRun movie why not Epyx Winter Games The Movie. If you want to see a pretty good movie shot at the actual 2018 Winter Games check out Olympic Dreams, it's currently on Kanopy.

That's way to low of a fine for both.

I re-watched Mallrats on Easter since it was the only non-religious Easter time movie I could think of. It had been ages since I saw it and there was still a lot of scenes that had me laughing pretty hard. Overall it's not a good movie and you could sense Smith was in over his head dealing with a big studio who wanted an Animal House for the 90's. The cinematography didn't feel "Made for TV movie" for me, totally looked like mall lighting.

Sunshine bringing in heel mercenary types like Hercules & Kabuki, to take on dastardly heels like Gino & Adams was a great angle that I'm surprised wasn't copied more.

Zevon & Salt-N-Pepa should have gone into the regular HOF over Bad Company & Chubby Checker. Also, is it just American snobbery that's keeping Oasis out? I would put them at the same level of Soundgarden and slightly a head of White Stripes.