Mister TV

Did he propose as someone else’s wedding? If so that’s more tacky than his suit.

Why did Hamilton take that rouge?

While cable tv was part of the WWF’s national expansion, syndicated tv was the main tool Vince used. Stations had been giving away tv time to wrestling promotions based on handshake deals, then you had Vince show up with a briefcase full of cash and a cut of house show money in that market, those station managers jumped at that deal. That syndication network enabled Vince to sell commercial time, sponsorships and so on.

The Live in Front of a Studio Audience last night was a disappointment, Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes with who they cast seemed like a home run, but the episodes they used and not going full satire made it a bore. All in the Family, Goood Times, and The Jeffersons worked in this format due to being groundbreaking and hitting on topics modern day TV would run from, an episode of Facts of Life were Blair and Natalie make a nerd sad and a Diff'rent Strokes were Willis wants some privacy, weren't groundbreaking or even that funny. Snoop Dog made a cameo on the Diff'rent Strokes episode and I totally thought it was one where Willis tried weed, it wasn't! Kathryn Hahn not getting the memo that it wasn't a full satire in her take on Jo was a highlight though. They missed the boat by not going with one of the many "Very Special Episodes" that both series had tons of, sure they might want to stay away from the Dudley gets molested by the Big Guy from WKRP episode but there's the Nancy Reagan episode that could have been a home run, or cast Ed Sheeran and do the Sam gets kidnapped episode.

Is anyone else watching Yellowjackets? If so do you also get bored during the present day stuff?

Once they scored, I immediately thought the Steelers were going to have the ultra rare 2 tie season.

Yes, in Creed “Stuntman” Wheeler won the Mustang and was going to fight Conlan but got his jaw busted in a press conference melee, Adonis ended up being his replacement. Also, they switched them from Light Heavyweight to Heavyweight for Creed II. It seems like things were set up for a trilogy with Adonis beating Wheeler at the end of Creed II, then a rematch with Conlan(who never lost his title) in Creed III. I’m assuming that was tossed when Ryan Coogler left to make Black Panther and Stallone took over with the Drago redemption story he really wanted to do.

Pitt wins! First team north of the Mason-Dixon Line to win the ACC and winners of the Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy(used to be a big thing) as the best team in the Northeast!

The All Confederate Conference refs are going to do whatever they can to make sure Wake Forest wins.

Fake slide by Kenny Pickett on a long TD run!

As a Steeler fan I hope this is true.

We watched this last night! It’s good and ends up being really depressing due to what this guy did to his neighbors and how he misused religious persecution claims to justify it. It’s really hard to comment more without it being a political discussion, since he was able to originally frame this issue as part of the “War on Christmas”.

Mekka would always steal the show when Laverne and Shirley did the “variety show” episodes.

Seeing the hoop brings back memories of the "Basketball Death Match" gimmick I thought up back in the day. After scoring a pinfall or submission, you'd have to make either two free throws or a 3 pointer to win the match, if you missed the match would continue, also if the downed opponent was able to get up they could try and stop the basket attempt. I was looked at like I had a pox anytime I suggested it to someone in the local indie scene.

Did they not push Garvin's house show matches on tv the same way they did Flair's? They would drive home when, where and who Flair would be defending the belt against, maybe they didn't do that for the Hands of Stone title defenses for some goofy reason. People seem to forget that Garvin only held the title for two months, a short feud with a non-Flair heel really couldn't get rolling in that time frame.

USC is a side step or even slightly better job than Oklahoma, they've stepped on their own dicks with bad coaching/AD hires and had to deal with the insane sanctions the NCAA laid on them for the horrid crime of Reggie Bush taking some gifts from an agent. But there's a crazy amount of talent in their backyard, they have an extremely rich and extremely well connected alumni pool for NIL opportunities, plus a huge amount of recruits would rather play in LA over places like Norman, Columbus, Athens and so on. The right coach will have them in the playoff year in and year out.

I don't watch talk shows often anymore but back in the day you had people like Laurence Tureaud, Paul Reubens, Cassandra Peterson, and Jim Varney appearing on talk shows in character, so Terry Bollea in full Hulkster mode yucking it up with Joan Rivers & Dr. Ruth didn't seem out of place. Alf was treated as an actual living sentient being and not a puppet with Paul Fusco's hand up its ass on talk shows!

If Lincoln Riley gets USC back to being halfway decent, how insane is the NIL money going to be for the Trojan players?

Bully might not have been the right word, for me the kids who’d do the “ha, ha you like ______!” in my schools all were wrestling fans, so no one really got the business for liking wrestling. I was also 9 when the WWF expansion started so most of us kids were into wrestling until 1988ish, after that not everyone talked about it but most people still knew what was going on.

Wait, some of you had bullies in school who weren’t pro wrestling fans? For me at each level of school the class bully was always super into wrestling.

Michigan looks like they’re cosplaying West Virginia in those blue pants.

Every team expect the Lions and Cowboys hate playing on Thanksgiving, that’s the biggest reason the Lions still get trotted out every year.

As someone who lives in the state but doesn't care about either team, I'm always baffled by Michigan fans thinking they should be a National Championship contender every season and win one every few years. Michigan had never been that team, they fell ass backwards into a split National Championship in 1997 and that was their first legit claim to one since 1948, most seasons from 1969 on were lose a non-conference game, lose a conference game, then play Ohio State for the trip to the Rose Bowl. They should still be a team in the conference title hunt every season though, yeah getting past Ohio State is rough but the Buckeyes aren't that much better to where its not even a contest anymore, that's all on the admin for sticking with Carr way to long, hiring Rodriguez getting buyers remorse the next day and then bringing in Hoke purely due to him being a "Michigan Man", on paper Harbaugh was a smart hire but he's not the answer and if they were smart they'd let him go.

When this show first aired I felt like I was the only person watching it.

It's not even about paying the players, Michigan State gave Mark Dantonio $4.3 million right before he "retired" then gave Mel Tucker $2.4 million to help buy him out of his Colorado contract, now Michigan State is asking faculty to work in the Dining Halls due to staff shortages. They had $7 million to give to football coaches but somehow can't find the money to pay Dining Hall workers a few more bucks an hour, sure the Athletic Department money is separate but it's insane that a public university flushes money down the toilet on glorified gym teachers but can't pay it's facilities workers a decent wage.