Vince had signed Bret to a three-year contract (with a further office job agreement for 17 years beyond that; even if Goldberg hadn't ended Bret's career, he obviously wasn't planning on wrestling too much post-2000) in 1996, but he was losing money and terminated the contract shortly before Survivor Series.

Generally, yes, but in 99.9% of cases, the parties involved agree to the script. Part of the story/legend here is that Bret did not want to drop the title to Shawn in Canada, hence the "screwjob" ending where Bret did not know the true events to unfold.

Things got really stupid in wrestling in the 90s and guys started being offered "creative control" in their contracts, which (short version) essentially gave them the right to veto anything Vince asked them to do.

I'm apparently not getting something here. This is professional wrestling. Which means, it's scripted. Vince didn't want the title to leave with Bret. Soooo, why all the hilarious shenanigans? Couldn't Vince, you know, scripted the ending he wanted instead of all this?

From context, it appears to mean that Brown was covering him so well that Gronkowski was, like, strapped down or something and couldn't make plays.

I goggled & no luck finding out "putting the straps on him"...I asked myself the same question. Yes arm brace makes sense, but did Sergio coin a phrase here????

arm brace

And she is also white. Any more excuses?

The Saints gave her a ball.

Was there another woman in the shot that required the descriptor for us to know who he was talking about. Obviously it was on purpose to imply more than that.

What does 'that white woman' mean? So that makes what 'that black man' did okay by elbowing her in the chin?

as she should

If he gave it to her, it would erase all the equal rights progress Jezebel is making. Good for him!

He straight up *protested* that ball from her.

It's 2014 and these are the best videos we have available of the hit?

Some people think that for a dunk to be a dunk, it's not enough to power the ball down through the hoop — they believe your hand has to remain in contact with the ball until the hand hits the rim.

Eh I could see how someone might say that but no one in the comments actually did, so we're all good here Captain Homeless. Let's all go hom— Oh sorry.

Perhaps a clever tactic. Who wants to roll around with a guy whose pants are full of shit...

Referee: "I'm calling this fight! Your ear is falling off!"