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Ha! Maybe if Seattle didn't let Willie Parker run 75 yards for a TD without being touched or didn't blatantly hold on that pass that got them to the goal line you might have some sort of argument. Also why would the NFL give a F if Jerome Bettis won a Super Bowl in his home town? It's not like anyone was going to not watch the game then tune in after it was over to see him get a trophy. The Bettis and his hometown stuff were really the only story in the build up since that's all there really was to report on, both teams were kind of boring. Maybe Seattle's billionaire should have bribed the Steelers QB to throw some picks like Jerry Jones did in SBXXX.

Maybe the midi-chlorians bolted from Chet Palpatine after he started speaking with a Gungan accent?

If Gaylord Peacock is a perfect name for a "Colourful Extrovert" what name would be a good name for a "Colourless Introvert"? Catweazle and TV Jackie Pallo matches are my goto when watching World of Sport on YouTube, both are way more entertaining than Big Daddy squashing wrestlers with Irish names.

Just looked it up, Nick at Night started in 1985 after A&E went to a full 24 hour schedule, up until that point they shared satellite time. We got cable in the fall of 1982 when things were a lot more slapdash time filler compared to two or three years later. HBO and Showtime used to show plays and concerts on a regular basis and both would have “Australian Film Festivals” since the Australian Film Commission sold them movies really really cheap. ESPN didn’t have morning Sportscenter and ran financial news instead. USA had a lot more sports. Ted Turner hadn’t found the loop hole that allowed him to charge national ad rates for Gilligan’s Island so it was a lot of C level black and white movies on WTBS. The Movie Channel was just as big as HBO and showed hard R sex romps in the middle of the day, HBO didn’t show R rated movies until after 8pm.

I remember when Nickelodeon would switch over to A&E at 9PM since neither network was full time. A&E showed operas and plays back then and when they went 24 hours they added highbrow British shows and weekly airings of Mean Streets. Wasn't AMC a premium channel when it started? They also had the show Remember WENN that I never watched but always heard it was good. Sadly my cable company couldn't decide between HA! and The Comedy Channel so we had to wait until the merger and formation of Comedy Central to get MST3K, Short Attention Span Theater and Inside the Comic Mind with Alan King. Bar Rescue on The Paramount Network(SpikeTV) is the trash show that really sucks me in, Friday Night Tykes was the other but the Esquire Channel disappeared a few years ago.

Take into account that there was only two bowl games in that time slot this year when there's normally three, the bowl it was up against featured Auburn and Minnesota who no one outside of their diehard fans care about. The Winter Classic also had two dud teams when it comes to pulling in a national audience.

ROS kind of shows that JJ saw and really loved The Goonies and Ghostbusters 2 along with Star Wars.

Pitt is my team but I’m at the point where I don’t think I can watch another game with Pat Naduzzi coaching the them, he’s in over his head even more than Foge was back in the 80’s.

Is it crying or just leakage from a botched facelift?

The blame has to start at the top with Bob Iger and the Disney board, they were looking at the short term rewards the movies would bring in with the long term being all about the integration of Star Wars into the parks. I know it's kind of Monday Morning Quarterbacking but I wish they would have let Jon Favreau be the creative lead for the new trilogy, The Mandalorian comes off as being inspired by the same things(Japanese cinema, westerns, old time serials and so on) the original trilogy were while the new trilogy just seems to be inspired by Star Wars. I enjoyed the new trilogy but they all had flaws but that isn't going to keep me from watching them again every few years.

Not sure if it would have topped Austin coming out on the Zamboni in Detroit, grown adults were jumping and screaming like little kids who just found out Santa is in fact real and is giving them everything they've always wanted. That pop was legit painful to the ears.

The Napoleon dream was never talked about, what I do remember is getting a talk about not calling people “Dickless” since I thought that was the funniest thing ever. My parents most likely assumed stuff like that went over my head and I’m sure there was things that did and things that didn’t. I remember seeing Stripes in the theatre and thinking loofa meant something dirty thanks to the “I wish I was a loofa” line when the John Larroquette was spying on the women’s shower.

I was 10 years old when Ghostbusters hit the theaters and I loved that flick, this trailer does nothing for me.

Yeah, Magnum had that big run in Mid-South which Dusty was familiar with while Bret was headlining in Western Canada for a promotion his family owned. Bret would have been a lower card up and coming babyface with more wins but still kind of stagnate just like he was in WWF pre-Hart Foundation, maybe he works his way up the card to where he's at TV or US title level by 1987. Also Bret would never gotten that women want him/men want to be him vibe with the southern fans like Mags did. Neidhart as a single in JCP is totally in the Paul Jones Army and most likely moving on after he's asked to loose the goatee to the Boogie Man. I think the Bulldogs starting off as faces but making a heel turn would have worked in JCP, they would have needed a team who could bump for them and get sympathy which the Rock n Roll Express were perfect at. The Bulldogs vs. Road Warriors seems like it would have just ended up with Dynamite and Hawk no selling each other and becoming a border line fist fight. If the Midnight's went to the WWF they end up in the same slot The Hart Foundation were in and would have needed whoever was dropping the tag belts to want to drop it to them and not Sheik and Volkoff. Midnights vs. Strike Force a few years later would have been sweet. I don't see the Rock n Roll really clicking in the WWF.

No Midnight Madness either.

Do count out's count? Inoki beat Hogan in Japan via count-out in 84 or 85 and The Genius with Mr. Perfect's help beat Hogan via count out on SNME.

Song written for the movie with the title in it, how was this not posted yet? Song that was so popular they made a movie and the tv show about it. Song with the movie title in the lyrics.

If you had cable or a big dish you most likely had access to the USA and WTBS shows along with both syndicated shows from your local stations, if you didn't have cable and lived in a decent sized market you got both syndicated shows. The WWF was really overexposed if you had cable or a dish but the percentage of homes with cable in 1984 is still kind of low but growing every month. The WWE pushed myth that cable was the driving force of expansion is bit of revision on their part, syndication is the biggest factor tv wise when it came to the national expansion.

USA Network would run house shows from MSG, Cap Center and the Spectrum in 1983 and 1984 so what you’re “What If’ing” kind of happened, sure you’d get over 10 minutes of SD Jones vs. Tiger Chung Lee but you’d also get stuff like the Sgt. Slaughter - Iron Sheik Boot Camp Match. The WWF was pretty overexposed in 1984 & 1985, they had All-Star Wrestling and Championship Wrestling in syndication, All-American Wrestling, Tuesday Night Titans, House Shows(1984), and Prime Time Wrestling(1985) on USA and World Championship Wrestling on WTBS. If you had access to MSG Network, Prism or NESN you could watch house shows from MSG, the Spectrum and Boston Garden.

I bleed Black and Gold but I figured he’d get 2 or 3 games so he’d be out for the rematch in two weeks. Also if Garrett’s suspension goes into next season I can see the NFL scheduling both Steelers-Browns games early in the season before Garrett comes back.

He should be out the rest of this season and all of next, he’s lucky he didn’t seriously hurt or kill Rudolph.

The WFTDA International Championships are this weekend in Montreal, the big news is that Denver’s Lady Trample isn’t making the trip due to being stuck in the US immigration process and not wanting want to risk leaving the country. I have Rose City winning my bracket and they’re path got easier with Trample not playing.

I liked the Blue Cage too and always popped when Lord Alfred Hayes would call it an "Iron Cage" or say something like "It's Iron Bars for Heenan!" Also the WWF used cages that had some height to them(big blue & fence style) while the other promotions used cages that were way way too short.

Not everyone cost Vince that sweet sweet Slim Jim money like Savage did.

What kind of joke was made at Chis Adams expense that has Hanson and that guy in front laughing, Sarge and Bobby Duncan holding in laughs and Hogan making a "I don't get it" face?