Yep, exactly. Fun, but it ruins the experience of watching a match. I definitely want to check out what NXT is all about.

SomethingI saw recently mentioned how in the lower tier promotions, you can really see the technical aspects of the performances, and the difference in WWE is the presentation really covers up the more mechanical aspects of seeing the performers go through the motions, so to speak.

I wonder if that was a necessary step WCW intentionally differentiating itself in the battle for audience. Figure Vince never felt the need to expand to black audiences the way smaller promotions needed to, and maybe WCW saw an avenue? Plus being based in Atlanta. Have a feeling the post territory era also saw the…

Vince in that external link stream was hella problematic...by design, I’m sure, but doesn’t make it better. Maybe even worse.

Technically is the best kind of correct.

He is far down on the list of reasons they won that Super Bowl.

Is there any other kind, peasant? 

Eh, if he the intelligence to manipulate a standardized test with precision to score in a certain range, that’s pretty smart.

I wish Paul Heyman would do my next salary negotiation.

“Seems like a lot to pay” — because Brown got traded for less

No, not totally his fault, but wide receivers aren’t the players who lead teams to winning seasons.

Yeah; I’m only a casual wrestling watcher, trying to get my fandom back up, but Jesus, listening to her talk on that clip was interminable. They probably should have done an angle with her like old-school Undertaker where her manager does all the talking.

I believe it’s money actually received (per point #4 here); they get paid annually throughout the actual life of the contract, not as a lump sum upon signing based on the value as written.

And you would probably get smashed into a literal pancake.

Got it, makes sense! Been a long day of wording and I just want to communicate in binary for the rest of the week.

Ahh ok, yeah that makes sense.

As an Eagles fan, I gotta tell you: practice caution, but go on and be excited.

Excellent background, but I’m confused by the first line of the last sentence? Did you mean you’re “not saying race has everything to do with it”? Just a bit twisted by the double negative.

I’m guessing the answer isn’t “consent,” and that neither would take “no” for an answer.

Makes perfect sense. I was accepted to 5 colleges, but I only enrolled at 1. So those other four colleges had, at least, a surplus of one student accepted but not enrolled.