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I made that same alignment in NCAA 2014! I don't think the conference champion ever won more than 9 games and half the conference would end up 5-7.

There's a lot more opportunities to play college football now compared to the 70's and 80's, even MAC and C-USA schools have massive dudes playing on their lines.

The 1982 NBA Finals were the first one I remember watching, in that time I don’t think any player has played as good in a Finals as Giannis did in this year. Also, I’m not saying this due to being 2nd generation Greek-American.

I wonder if Jesse used names of bands who just played in the Twin Cities, like he saw the tour poster in the Civic Center lobby and took a mental note for promo day.

When Jesse would name drop the bands he partied with he would always mention the lesser known members to make it more believable. He’d never say I partied with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, he’d say “I partied with my good friends Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and the rest of the Stones.”

I started watching around the 7th round, from what I saw and how the announcers were talking, I wasn’t shocked by it being a draw, the Showtime judge might have scored it a draw since he had Castano up a round heading into 12. 117-111 was bad though.

Andre was sold twice, Heenan sold him to DiBiase for $1,000,000 and then bought him back for $100,000!

Rose might have had Heenan in his corner the same taping that the Piper's Pit was recorded. The early expansion has a lot of weird manager-wrestler combos, like Heenan with Rose, Adonis and Link, and Hart with Bundy.

Or watched a Bob Backlund match or amateur wrestling.

Season 1 is very good but they were still working the kinks out, there’s going to be a point in season 2 where you‘ll be hooked and in for the full run.

Thanks to some rainy days I've been watching some obscure flicks on the various streaming services I have. First Lifeguard a 1976 flick starring a pre-grizzled Sam Elliott! I had seen parts of this movie in the past but never from start and never to the end, It's way more interesting than good, it has a time capsule feel since it's shoot all on location and there's a few WTF moments. The biggest WTF is shortly after lecturing a newbie lifeguard played by Parker Stevenson about the dangers of having sex with someone under age, Elliott's character has sex with a 17 year old girl played by Kathleen Quinlan, in the freaking Lifeguard Hut! They don't show them having sex, its just a shot of the hut with a sappy song playing but the way it's edited it seems like Elliott's character was pretty quick. He doesn't get arrested for this, he just has to deal with her hanging around him all summer. There's also a scene with an old man flashing people at the beach, that is just as creepy as that would be in real life. Elliott's character dealing with getting old and having people be "OMG your 32 and still a lifeguard" is what you would expect it to be, the movie does have one of the best high school reunion scenes I've ever seen. On Showtime and their app. Family Business a 1989 film directed by Sidney Lumet, I don't think I had seen this since the 90's. Just like Vincent Patrick's other novel adapted into a movie(The Pope of Greenwich Village) it's ruined by bad casting that overshadows a good story. Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, and Matthew Broderick play grandfather, father and grandson, Connery's character is a lifelong thief who is depending on the scene either Scottish or Irish, Hoffman is his son Vito who was a thief but went straight after some time in jail his mother is Sicilian, Broderick is a genius who won a prestigious scholarship and his mother is Jewish. It's really hard to believe any of them are related, plus Connery and Hoffman kind of phone it in. The story is good and I actually read the book when I was in high school but this movie is a huge disappointment. Was on Vudu but I think it's gone now. The Last Rites of Joe May a small 2011 movie starring Dennis Farina. This was way better than I thought it would be, it's shame that it disappeared after its initial festival run since Farina is great in it. Can be found deep in the bowels of Peacock. All Square a 2018 film that I don't think had any real release outside of festivals. This movie is character actor and "that guy, that girl, that voice" heaven, Michael Kelly who's in a ton of stuff usually as a cop or FBI agent, plays a bookie who can barely make ends meet and is a total scumbag, he ends up kind of befriending an exes son which leads to him taking bets on Little League games. This isn't really a comedy and at times is really depressing, but it totally nails small time bookies and gambling addicts. Currently on Amazon Prime.

That was way way better than I thought it would be. I had “Grandma’s Got a Boyfriend” stuck in my head for weeks.

This happened not far from where I live, so sad. Michigan legalized mortar style fireworks a few years ago and it was a HUGE mistake, those things are way to powerful and shoddily made for drunk, tipsy or even sober people to be lighting off in a backyard. That’s not even taking into account vets who have to deal with what sounds like artillery fire for two weeks.

I kind of remember some guys back in the day hitting the turnbuckle chest first, but close into the turnbuckle after a reversal. Heel goes to whip face from one corner to the other, face reverses it back to the original turnbuckle and the heel hits it chest first.

It's crazy that a spin-off from JAG(which was hysterical even though it wasn't supposed to be) ended up being the modern day Gunsmoke and also spun off more shows than All in the Family.

Early WWF heel Beefcake wasn't horrible, if he was in the ring with a decent babyface all the basic stuff he did equaled a passable match. Beefcake now being considered a George Gulas type is way off, the Beefer was on par with most juiced up guys of his era. Yeah the hedge clippers like Duggan's 2x4 was something that needed to be seen by kids sitting in the cheap seats, that way the kids could then beg their parents to buy them the foam version of the clippers or 2x4.

I became "aware" of pro wrestling in 1980 when I was 5/6 years old, I grew up in Pittsburgh so the Bruno-Zbyszko feud was a big deal that seemed on par with the big sports news of the day. I didn't start watching weekly until the spring of 1982 when the Strongbow's chase for the tag belts started and heel Jimmy Snuka showed up, I dug all three and was deemed old enough to goto the Civic Arena in June to see Snuka vs. SD Jones and the Strongbow's vs. Fuji and Saito for the tag belts. Backlund was a goof to me and my hate for white bread babyfaces started at that card, poor Blackjack Mulligan had to not only battle Bob Backlund but special guest ref Gorilla Moonson, it was a borderline handicapped match. Over the next year I became a fan of the heels mainly Don Muraco who was an amazing back then and Bob Orton due to the superplex.

This was the night Dr. D slapped John Stossel.

If I remember right Jacques wasn’t just concerned about retaliation from Dynamite but also from Dynamite’s crew of guys like Bad News Brown, Don Muraco, Dino Bravo and Davey Boy, so getting a little extra insurance was somewhat justified. The episode left out the biggest reason Dynamite didn’t retaliate and that was due to Vince threatening to fire anyone who was involved in another locker room fight, that’s why the Rougeau’s were eliminated early and the Bulldogs eliminated late at the Survivor Series, since the Bulldogs had given their notice and therefore had no concerns about getting fired. Also Dynamite was “Bitch AF” for waiting to sucker punch to Jacques when Raymond the fighter of the family was sidelined with a knee injury and on crutches.

It cools down but most of the time the temperature is going from 112ish to 98ish, so it’s still really hot. A few years ago when I was there in July it was 101 at night with a breeze coming in from California, it was like being in a dryer.

Jacques in other interviews goes into way more detail, the biggest being Dynamite was F’ing with him after the original incident, Dynamite even had a flight attendant announce to an entire plane that Jacques had a “boxing” match the night before.

They have one of those belts at the Inoki-Saka Bar, it's really impressive in person.

Pitt fan here, has there been any reports of Sherrill being part of cover-up's like Paterno and Bo? Sure he castrated a bull in front of his players to somehow motivate them, did the same shady recruiting tactics everyone else did(he really didn't do anything that bad at Pitt) and fired Jimmy Johnson during halftime of a bowl game, but those things can't be compared to what Paterno and Bo did. I live in the Detroit area and the local press had their head pretty buried in the sand concerning the Bo cover-up story, so much of it was hidden behind paywalls.

Yep, people in the Penn State Athletic Dept. and State College were supposedly making jokes about Sandusky back in the 70's.