Mister TV

The tv shows were most likely recoded on 3/4 U-Matic SP or Betacam since they had to be broadcast quality, tv stations even rinky dink ones weren’t broadcasting SVHS. Corny went cheap on the “super shows” since they weren’t going to be broadcast, the price difference for recording the show the same as TV or scaled back on SVHS would have been significant.

Most likely Mid-Atlantic US title.

The Saudi’s were just F’ing with them, there’s no way in hell they’d hold anyone from the WWE hostage. The Saudi’s do TONS of business with western companies and they’re not going to jeopardize that by holding employees of a western company hostage. Sure they’ll do dickish things to make a point and scare low level people but it’s not going to escalate to an international incident

“Jumping” Johnny DeFazio vs. The Beast with Mark Curtis, check out the spot Curtis pulls off at 12:18.

DeFazio still worked Civic Arena shows after the WWF took over the Pittsburgh region, he even tagged with Tony Garea against Piper & David Schultz in February 1984. The Studio Wrestling era was before my time but Yinzers love nostalgia so I heard a lot about it, with only four channels guys like DeFazio, “The Carnegie Cop” Frankie Holtz and “Cannonball” Chuck Martioni(who lived on the same street as my grandparents) were household names.

The NFL was silly to think Disney would be down for a 100% increase when no one else was bidding.

I went into that movie totally cold after only watching 10ish seconds of the Netflix preview, I really liked it but I also didn't like where it went at times.

Unless the NFL is willing to put MNF on a streaming service there's no one else out there that's going to pay $3.5 billion or even $2.5 billion, I can't see WarnerMedia(TBS/TNT), NewsCorp(FS1), or Comcast(NBCSN/USA) shelling out that kind of money.

Just looked it up, Arnold was still shooting T2 so there's no way they could have gotten him. I think either Stallone or Bo Jackson would have been Vince's next choice, Stallone was on the downswing(WM7 was between Rocky V and Oscar) so maybe he takes a big payday to work WM, big guys like Earthquake and Typhoon just doing fat guy spots to him is safe and his rep as a "tough guy" wouldn't get that tarnished since The Natural Disasters are comic book style monsters. Vince would have sold his kids to get Bo Jackson at the height of "Bo Knows" in the ring, but I doubt the Royals would have allowed it and even if they did it would have had to be scrapped since the hip injury happened that January.

Remember they booked the LA Coliseum for WM7 before WM6 took place, I'm sure they pencilled in Hogan-Warrior 2, but by the end of spring 1990 I can see Vince wanting to go another way. WM6 didn't do as well PPV wise as they thought it would so Vince might have been leery at bringing that match back a year later, plus both make to much money merch wise to turn one of them heel, so having that twist to the rematch is a no go. At the start of the summer it seemed like Hogan's track was the feud with Earthquake, then his new best buddy Tugboat turning on him sometime in later in the year, would Hogan-Tugboat be a WM co-main? I'm not sure, maybe the plan even without the war was Hogan-Slaughter and Warrior-Savage, Sarge was a mainstream name and Vince needed to fill a 100,000 seat stadium. If they did Hogan-Warrior at WM7, I can see Bossman getting the match with Savage, he was the third most over face in the company and could work his ass off. Also maybe they do face Jake vs. heel Savage, both are such established longtime stars that the consequences of a retirement match are just as big as Warrior-Savage. I always thought that without the war Vince would have ponied up the money to have a big name celeb team with Hogan, who that would be I have no idea, but if the plan for Tugboat was for him to turn heel in late 1990 then a Natural Disasters vs. Hogan & celebrity as the WM7 main event makes sense.

While they didn’t go overboard with the “that group of wrestlers were never in that location at the same time”, a lot of people need to remember the “repeat to yourself it’s just a show” line from the MST3K theme.

Did anyone else slog through For All Mankind on Apple TV+? Did anyone just find out that season two starts today? The show was borderline ok and I stayed with it due to seeing where they went with the alt history(some of it was believable & some wasn't), none of the characters were all that likable and it got way to melodramatic at times. I was really surprised that it got renewed since it seems like an expensive show that no one watched or even cared about.

They should throw everyone a curve ball and have it be how the cop(can't remember which one it was) and his family dealt with the psychological implications of that whole ordeal. No action at all, not even in flashback form!

I think it's less name value and more him knowing the right people in power who have a "you don't know the real Mel" attitude.

Same.

Does anyone else feel kind of bad for the companies that blow 95% of their ad budget on a Super Bowl commercial?

Yikes the Springsteen sell out spot had my eyes rolling big time.

This season? The NFL has been encouraging celebrations with that camera and screen in the end zone.

Not sure but some big companies like Coca-Cola opted out this year.

In the promos Lombardi sounded like Al Pacino so I thought they were going to have Al dressed up as Lombardi.

Nah, the Pittsburgh writers who vote in these things aren’t total homers like that. The two Pittsburgh Heisman voters still brag about voting for Jason White over Larry Fitzgerald.

Someone should have let Phoebe Bridgers know that Pete Townshend used to gimmick his guitars before he smashed them.

Back to cage matches, I always hated ones with the ref in the ring doing counts for illegal holds, doing rope breaks and so on, they just need to stand back and make a three count or hear a submission.

He should have bet the money line like I did! I got my bet in(Bucs +145) right before it dropped a bit due to the KC barber story breaking.

It wasn't! First whoever made the decision to have "deep fake" stand-ins for Davis and Rozelle should be fired, they looked like cut scene characters from an old PS2 game. Both of their voices were way off! Al Davis sounded like Bill Burr trying to do a New York accent and Pete Rozelle who was born and raised in California somehow had a Chicago accent. They glossed over one of the biggest reasons Davis made the move to LA, he thought NFL games were going to switch to a pay per view system and that he needed to move in before anyone else. There was also way way way too much of the old cry baby Al Davis/Raider bellyaching over getting their assed kicked by the Steelers in the 70's, from the crying over an icy field in the 1975 AFC Championship Game in Pittsburgh to the flat out lies when it comes to the Immaculate Reception. They also never mentioned the underhanded way Davis took control of the Raiders and they treated the act of pity the NFL gave Mark Davis in the move to Vegas as some sort of triumph for Al Davis.