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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 24, 2007 11:30:34 GMT -5
Yes, the Browns shall be representing live from the Nassau Coliseum next Tuesday eve for the hybrid Smackdown/ECW tapings. Already signed, the awesome "Monsters Main Event" , a mini-battle royal with Mark Henry, Big Daddy V, Kane, and the Great Khali.
This is Emma's first live wrestling event. Yes, I am the proud poppa. She will be sporting her new Hardy Boys shirt. She is very excited. I have more on this fine event as the day draws night.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 31, 2007 8:16:28 GMT -5
Posted this over on the Torch message board, just a bit of an account from last nights Smackdown portion.
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I guess these can be deemed as "spoilers" although I was on hand in "control your 4 year old daughter" mode and not "pay close attention for future discourse" mode.
I show up with my "Big Bossman" shirt, with the catchy, "Corporate Security" splayed on the back. Yes, I am the one guy who bought the thing. It got crazy pops all night long, the Bossman was getting much respect.
So we find our obstructed seats which enable us to watch the backstage segments flipped around on the back of the tron, and see they are opening up the Smackdown tapings with a dark match with The Major Brothers (from Long Island, New York! - guess they were from Philly yesterday) against Dave Taylor and Drew McIntyre, who is fulfilling the Paul Burchill role. Actually, I hope they have more in mind for The Ripper. Anyhoo, while this match is going on a big gaggle of kids comes up the steps and one howls with genuine excitement and awe, "Its the Major brothers!" I was agog. Then, on the way up the stairs, he shouts aloud, "hey, look, its the Major brothers!" cause no one seemed to pay any heed the first time. The Major brothers win, and there is much rejoicing.
JBL does his two-step on the ramp on the way to the announce table, much to my wifes delight. Batista is out for the stereotypical man droning in the ring for a while show-open, but only after making people scream in terror with his blasting pyro. Fans are pleased to see him, then Taker ambles out and they set up the Hell in a Cell we were waiting for down the line. Khali and Mark Henry, the foes for later in the night, pop out on the ramp to say boo and let Runjin Singh sneak in a line about how none of us on Long Island can "afford to live in New York City."
Festus and Domino open the grappling portion of the show. From where we are sitting we had a great view of the car horded backstage, next to Chuck's motorcycle. I sing along to biscuits and gravy as things are set to get under way. Festus wins, sorta bouncing Domino all around. At one point Jesse sails through the air to tackle a pestering Deuce, and there is much rejoicing, and I am thrilled I get to see the mighty Terry Gordys' son in person. Tackling his Dads former tag partner's on the Georgia Circuit no less!
I'm getting chatty. Dont mind me.
After some staged pleasantries were exchanged between J Noble and Vicki backstage, Noble saunters out to battle the way over Rey Mysterio. The first of 619 "619" chants starts. Not the most original, but my daughter is on board. I very much enjoyed this battle, and look forward to watching it back on TV. For a few frantic seconds a fan behind me who was name-dropping "James Gibson" and his ROH antics thought Noble had it in the bag, but he was rebuffed in the end. There was much rejoicing. I am a Noble man, I gave him a hearty, "whoo - hoo" as he shuffled to the back.
Matt Hardy and MVP do their thing. I watch it backwards on the tron. I begin to wonder if Matt is even there - he does not come out for this next tilt. Its Kane vs MVP again. I am all for feuds that go on forever (Ted Dibiase vs The Freebirds, anyone?) but I am weary of this. Then again, I am weary of all things Kane. This match lollygagged. For the first, and basically only time of the night, the crowd muttered and snarled. A boring chant popped here and there. Lots of resting on the mat. Match went long, and Kane wins in the end, only to fall prey to the attacking Big Daddy V. The fans are outraged at this transgression, while being stuck in contrast with the happiness of the match being done.
So all parties clear out, and here comes Mick Foley's doofy guitar riff. Foley ambles to the ring, and there is a cacophony of positive glee. The fans were very much into him. I used to be a fan but I am pretty much done with the guy. Oh, joy of joys, he is going to battle the nefarious "Coach." I enjoy Coach, but is it necessary for him to shuffle over to another show for the night. The fans are all over Coach. Can you believe Coach has been a WWE heel for 4 years now? I remember he turned heel right around the time I got married. In fact, while we were flying to our honeymoon he was teaming with Al Snow against JR and Lawler for control of Raw.
Anyway, I pick this time to hit the bathroom, and hear that the ref is "Mr McMahon." Of course the joke is on us, once again "Mr McMahon" is being played by Hornswaggle McMahon. The kids are happy. I get back to see a circus act going on in the ring. The midgets were funnier when Gilberto Roman was the referee and there was more than one of them so they could do the rowboat. This match was pretty bad. Hornswaggle did another sterling frogsplash, setting up a Foley pin. Foley vs Funk it wasnt. In a funny moment as Coach limps to the back, hand on head, the ring announcer quips, "how about a hand in appreciation of Coach's efforts?" or some such thing, and the crowd spits venom. Well played.
Ok, so its Chuck Palumbo's turn. I have trouble explaining this one, but I like the guy. I know he gets his pops - I guess its the bike mainly, and Michelle McCool is a boost, but I would cheer him if he came out on a pogostick. He's one of those wrestlers I like and just cant explain, like "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers. I think it goes back to a vignette I remember in WCW where Chuck attacked Lex Luger in a gym. But I digress.
So Chuck comes out and I stand up and yell "whoo! yes!" But funny thing, it was not just me. In fact, Chuck was the only wrestler on the card who, during his match with Kenny Dykstra, had random fans all over my section yelling, "get him, Chuck!" and "yeah, Chuck, you the man!" and stuff like that. It was kind of funny how many props for good old Chuck were flying around. Chuck won, and again, much rejoicing. I found myself missing Victoria's sumo suit. For a passing moment the suit was even the subject of strange fantasy, until I figured out I really could not do much with your partner in it even in fantasy land, aside from pushing it down a hill.
Let me break in with this dumb addendum as I have no idea of any other thread in existence which will allow me to sneak this in. When I got up to cheer Chuck I figured I would be that lone figure spotted from way on high, confusing the issue. During the WCW consolidation, the vaunted tag team of Chavo and Hugh Morrus came out for a tag battle on the highly regarded Heat program, and me and my friend Mike hopped up raising all kinds of hooey. Somehow at that time we procured good seats and actually made TV, where would could be seen in a placid throng waving our arms and clapping like trained seals. Even Chavo and Hugh gave us a confused look.
Ok, so let me wrap this up. I have to move on to my next way to waste time instead of working this morning. Main event is Batista and Taker vs Khali and Henry. Those Batista pyros scare the crap out of everyone all around me again. Taker takes his Moses roam of the desert endless journey to the ring. I swear the guy next to me left, got a beer, and got back up with it between Takers roam from the ramp to the ring.
Match is what you would expect. Lumbering, but the crowd was very much into it. Khali did a few "raise my arms up like I'm the man and make you boo really loud" spots. Enjoyed the ending, with JBL leaving the announce table to whip up on a weary Taker and Batista, setting up the unhappy ending. Bad guys win.
I have a few more points I can/shall make about the eve and the ECW tapings, but I will close this curtain and come back. You've been warned.
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A couple of other things I noticed. John Cena is duly missed, and the fans drink the Kool Aid. On line to get in, there was a rabid pack of children who sparked up convo with me and the family. One kid was outraged at the antics of one Randy Orton, for injuring John Cena. He reminded me that "he was fighting Kennedy, then Randy Orton came out and hurt him."
Poor kids could not wait to see HBK, and were under the impression HHH and Umaga were mixing it up again. Not sure how they missed the fact it was a Smackdown taping, them being "5 rows from the ring" and all. Sucks for them, on the floor everyone is always standing, and these kids were at a disadvantage. Suddenly 200 hundred dollar seats are not so much fun. I choose to save the money on tickets, buy 38 dollar seats and 10 beers.
As I was with the wife and kid I shunned the alcohol (although I did pound 2 16 ounce cans on the 40 minute LIRR ride out of the city) and we had a few Sierra Mists. Dinner consisted of some frantically gobbled Checkers burgers and fries in the parking lot, so we could huff it over to a bulbous line that had built over an hour before the show.
Late in the show a timid woman taps me on the back from behind and asks if she "missed John Cena." I explained to her in the same solemn tone that you answer a question about your dearly departed dog with "he's dead" the whole Cena story. She made one of those, "I think I got ripped off" faces, which again I cant imagine cause all the ads I saw for this show were pretty much clear on who was going to be there. WWE skates on this one.
I wanted a souviner program, it was that "circus size" glossy, but I saw it was $15 and I demurrred. I mean, for Gods sake, that same money can get me 6 months of WWE Magazine. There was not one "viral video" sighting, and only a couple of tired "we want Jericho" warblings.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Oct 31, 2007 8:57:23 GMT -5
You missed the part where she said she was taking her two teenage daughters over to the Marriott afterward to "take pictures" and that is why they were so disappointed in Cena not being there.
"Taking pictures at the Marriott" is groupie slang for "I'm gonna see if I can hook up with some wrestlers."
And I think I upset those poor children when they asked us all if we liked Randy Orton and I said yes. The guy they were with looked at me and chuckled like "oh, boy you said the wrong thing."
Mind you this was after one of those kids said "I better not see Randy Orton here tonight because I want to hit him for what he did to Cena." Look out Randy, some nine year old wants a piece of you.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Oct 31, 2007 9:12:55 GMT -5
Not Emma. She was like "Um.... where is Mr. McMahon, Mom?"
So I had to explain to her that Hornswoggle was Mr. McMahon and they weren't talking about the "real" Mr. McMahon.
Then she turns to me and says "Mom, how does that leprechaun get places?" Without mentioning that she is roughly the same size I tell her he walks. So she asks me "What if his little legs get tired?" She was very concerned.
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Post by IronHorse4 on Oct 31, 2007 9:15:49 GMT -5
You should have told them wrestling is fake.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Oct 31, 2007 9:18:24 GMT -5
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S FAKE?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!
I wanted to. But Emma would have heard. I don't want to ruin it for my own kid.
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Post by cactusjames on Oct 31, 2007 11:03:13 GMT -5
My favorite part of live wrestling shows is acting like a heel just to piss the little face loving freaks. When I go, there's no chance of me cheering any face, every face gets booed loudly and heckled. This only backvfired once when Hogan came out and I was the only person booing, morons.
Sounds like Smackdown was a fun time though, hopefully it will be good on TV as well. And if I may disagree on one thing, Smackdown specifially is missing Edge, the little kids can miss Cena who's on Raw when not on the shelf, but Edge hurts more. I bet they are kicking themselves in the ass for moving Kennedy over to Raw, smackdow could use the heel strength. Henry and Khali don't cut it.
ECW was really weird. 4 matches and they barely went over 5 minutes? They should have let Elijah Burke and Jimmy Wang Yang go 5 more minutes.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Oct 31, 2007 11:50:41 GMT -5
Dreamer dressed as Paulie was funny and Tom not sure if you TIVO'd it or not but Tazz and Joey Styles "trying to figure out" who Dreamer was dressed as was worth a few chuckles.....
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 31, 2007 12:17:37 GMT -5
Yeah, its DVRd for later viewing and archiving. Actually, Taz was part of the most entertaining session of the night. During one of the ECW commercial breaks he hopped into the ring with a mic and played a game with Fans signs. The tron would show a sign and he would rip on it, or praise it accordingly. He was very witty. Although I did not appreciate his glomming over a "Mets" sign, or his loud proclomation that the "Yankees suck!"
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Post by thecaptain15 on Oct 31, 2007 12:54:10 GMT -5
his glomming over a "Mets" sign, or his loud proclomation that the "Yankees suck!"
Probably playing to the LI crowd being that is "Mets territory" for the most part.......lol
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 31, 2007 13:33:06 GMT -5
Eh, playing to the LI crowd backfired cause he has not heard that many boos in his career as he did after he said it.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Oct 31, 2007 18:43:33 GMT -5
Nah, Taz is a Mets fan. Isn't he from Brooklyn? He actually worked in the same department of the LIRR as my dad.
The Burke/Jimmy Wang Yang match could have gone longer. That was actually a pretty good match.
I agree on the Kennedy move. When they announced that Smackdown was going to be on LI it was back before Kennedy moved to Raw.  But I like him being on Raw so I got over it.
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But I like him being on Raw so I got over it.