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#121 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 102 weeks ago
You mean they guys that were literally hired 18 months ago? Do you know how many coaches and managers they've been through in the last 10 years?
The bears are fundamentally broken. Shuffling the chairs around on the deck of the titanic isn't going to do anything. It's embarrassing that they are so focused on their new stadium so publicly...when they put this putrid shit on the field. The political fighting that's going on over their stadium is all they talked about all summer....then this? Like...no one is engaged in anything anymore.
#122 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 102 weeks ago
Fieids only has 1 year left on his contract with the team option for 1 more…pretty standard for rookie contracts…team control for 4-5 years.
If you see the analysis of his play you’ll see that it appears his confidence is just destroyed. Indications of his decision making followed by hesitation…and then compounded mistakes
#123 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 103 weeks ago
God the Bears suck. Just a horribly inept team top to bottom. They're what the Detroit Lions were in the 90s and 2000s. Awful.
Dolphins score 70 points...most in a game in like 60 years. Crazy.
Your point about the bears is well taken.
Once it gets this bad, how do you even begin to turn it around.
You can see it in the way they play…they don’t even believe it can be fixed.
#124 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 103 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:The disappointment i expect is that 9/10 people won’t even notice
Very true. That world has well and truly past us by. I don't see any "old band" ever having a proper hit again, there's simply nobody under 30 who is interested in rock n roll anymore.
They like computers playing repetitive riffs and beats…
#125 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 103 weeks ago
I sincerely hope that’s the case…but it seems there has been a lot of baiting going on….
Has the Biden administration handled this well or not? I guess that’s what it comes down to…
The MAGAs only define success based on who is in charge.
#126 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 103 weeks ago
I’ve been casually following this thread and i have to admit to you all…
In a world where the most popular music is mostly women whining and bitching about things…mostly men…
The disappointment i expect is that 9/10 people won’t even notice
#127 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 103 weeks ago
Seems to me the republicans want Ukraine to be taken…and Poland probably too…
Then we will have fully erased the progress since 1945…
The purpose of allowing that to happen is beyond my comprehension…
But oh well…let it happen i guess…if you all want WW3 this would be the best way to make it happen…
If Ukraine and Poland won’t stand with each other they’ll go down together
#128 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 103 weeks ago
Donald Trump has to be the devil reincarnate…
#129 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 105 weeks ago
Brett Sawyer died. RIP.
I remember him and Buzz as a tag team briefly in NWA 1985. Wasn't much for them to do as there was simply too much talent on the roster during that period.
I think their peak was 1983 mid south/mid Atlantic.
This relates to my above post indirectly.
I feel as though the 80s were the golden age of wrestling...and I always will. And given the absolute amateur hour that wrestling is now...it pains me as we get further away from that era.
My theory is that Vince greatly benefitted from the territories. The amazing stuff happening in mid south, mid atlantic, Houston wrestling...the list goes on...
Vince had the luxury of paying people more than anyone else could...as he poached the territory talents, he was also killing the territories...There was a brief symbiotic relationship there that turned parasitic. As each territory died so did decades of wrestling knowledge and along with it pipelines for well trained hands from announcing to the in ring talent and everything in between...
What is left? The people who like WWE no matter what they do is all that's left...and then everybody pays attention for awhile during wrestlemania season. The amount of revenue WWE generates is not sustainable in my opinion unless they grow the audience. This is something they really need to...they are great at shaping the optics to make it seem like they are invincible...and they are even willing to rewrite wrestling history to make themselves seem more impressive than they actually are...
So to come full circle...I was only 3 years old in 1985. But I know enough to know this: Bret and Buzz Sawyer were amazing talents and if they can't find a spot somewhere because a roster was too loaded, wow!...how they hell are we where we are in 2023?
#130 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 105 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:The Facebook and Twitter media definitely made sure you’d come to this conclusion eventually…
AEW is a jerk off vanity project…
It’s like Uber…never shown a profit ever…just keeps going for some reason
Coz it's ran by a billionaires kid, i think vanity project is the perfect term for it. The booking is awful & the product is like an indie show with a budget
Spot on!
For those that do want a more thorough understanding of the situation...some of the wrestlers in AEW are also EVPs in the company. They've been using their power to fuck with CM Punk since he arrived. At first it started more covert but then guys on tv would do things to embarrass punk and they just did unprofessional shit.
So Punk is turning the company around in a lot of ways...they had their first $1 million gate just a few months into his run. The more succesful Punk got, the more these EVPs got jealous and instead of embracing the success they sabotaged it left and right. Punk didn't make it better by publicly calling them out...but he also wasn't wrong. Their number 1 draw by far was being sabotaged by the very people who were in charge of running it. Rather than Tony Khan allowing the run to play out and elevating the brand, he did nothing. Repeatedly, he did nothing and allowed the situation to fester and get worse.
And so now it's fully exposed...who cares about ratings? who cares about gates? who cares about revenue? Tony wants to be friends with everyone. And that's why they are going to continue to circle the drain until daddy says 'no more.' I'm not sure what that would take...as I'm certain this is a great write off for the Khans. But due to the fact that it's just something 'to do' for Tony Khan it will never be taken very seriously.
And this is coming from someone who was really hoping it would succeed.
Edit: I learned shortly after posting this that AEW's Saturday Night show went from a viewership of 800-850k on aveage to 350k after Punk's firing.
They're on their way to becoming TNA...a promotion that is content with 100k viewers.
