The Unknown Poster

Never dipped in quality. Still awesome.

That sounds absurd. Although the Seinfeld revival on Curb was great, but that was, what, one season? And not the entire focus either.

Oh wow As an older guy I first saw Bob Einstein (Super Dave) on the TV show Bizarre which was a Canadian sketch comedy series in the 80's. He was hilarious and "Super" Dave was awesome. I didnt realize he got his start writing for Smothers Brothers.

If you're a wrestling fan you should definitely enter the wrestling thread. Lots of interesting things happening in that world right now. Gene worked in Winnipeg a lot in his early days with the AWA (70's into early 80's). Winnipeg was one of the main cities for Minnesota-based AWA until Vince bought the TV timeslot and went on his expansion rampage.

The All Star game isnt really about a fun game for fans. Its the NHL's corporate meet & greet. The PA talks a lot about growing the game. Doing these kinds of events is part of that.

Something to keep in mind

Too much Turkey for the big dogs. They'll turn it on soon. Brendan Lemieux has really improved, seems focused on playing a good game in his role rather then trying to make a name for himself.

Please dont. lol

Its a bit different in the US where people get these weird channels in their packages. Pursuit isnt very good. POP TV, even though it seems like an awful channel wasnt *that* bad... MLW does okay with BEIN Sports which is a bigger channel internationally though I hear the viewership for Fusion (MLW's TV show) is under 20,000 but they have the appearance of a growing brand. Its probably not *that* hard to get a very small channel interested (even local Winnipeg had a TV deal on a regional station in Texas) but the key is getting paid and getting seen, like you said. MLW uploads their TV show onto youtube within 24 hours for the purpose of getting eyeballs. If All Elite wants to be a WWE alternative they need millions per year. If WWE can get a 5 year/billion dollar deal with their ratings, can All Elite generate half the ratings? A quarter? And then how much of it is WWE's brand vs actual viewership? And how much is All Elite being the hot thing worth to a network? If it was me, I'd definitely want to know if Kenny was in or out as it would directly influence how much I'd pay, same with Jericho. If you can launch TV with Omega, Jericho and a supporting cast of Cody, Bucks, Page etc, you're looking good. EDIT to add: Keep in mind, this isnt just Cody Rhodes walking into a meeting with TV execs. Even then, Cody and the Bucks (with help, ironically, from ROH) got the deal with WGN for ALL IN (I'd suspect WGN is a major interested party in a regular TV deal for All Elite). The owner of the Jags financing this things opens a lot of doors and gives it an air of legitimacy not many other promotions have had. EDIT Part II: If they get a smaller tier network, their goal might be to do quarterly PPV's. Thats something Impact largely abandoned but ROH does decent at and All In reportedly did well (though they never released their buy rate numbers) and tour. I find it hard to believe they can compete with WWE for talent with that model though. But if a billionaire is willing to invest $50 million to create a profitable #2 US promotion, he can eat a lot of losses proving themselves for a future big TV contract. (TNA lost $30 million, Ted Turner was told $50 million to become legitimate competition to WWE).

Heck of a prediction. Well TNA lost a boat load of money for the bast majority of their existence and did have a billionaire supporting it. The difference is that TNA’s billionaire was Panda Energy and they supported it as a let project for their daughter Dixie. Once papa Panda cut funding they were effectively finished. They were briefly funded by Billy Corgan before Anthem, funded by Leonard Asper, bought the company All Elite has a billionaire that actively wants to do this TNA has Spike TV and the millions they pumped into it All Elite will have better merchandising and live events but they need a robust tv deal. The quearion is what will Vince do he can screw them by outbidding for every piece of talent available its been said that one guy with an expiring deal (believes to be Marty scuril) has an NXT deal far richer than anyone else has been offered I think they will use nxt to try to compete with Elite The three big things are 1) TV (if they get a good tv deal they likely last beyond three years simply because the deal will likely be for 3-5 years) 2) New Japan relationship (access to big talent and provides secondary income for Elite guys) 3) ability to sign key talent (Kenny is the first big test because he will get a huge offer from WWE, but people will keep whispering Punk’s name and looking at key wwe guys to see if they re-sign (Styles) Jericho is a big factor too it’s the best news for wrestling since the Monday night war assuming they get a good tv deal

Lol

The suddenly hot Pens

That’s tremendous.

She’s the pick of a buddy of mine. She needs a good foreign policy advisor if all trump has on her is his racist Pocahontas stuff she’s golden. With a strong VP she could certainly be a front runner. I lean more toward Harris though. I wonder if the Dems will shy away from a woman, especially an establishment woman. They’ll hang Hilary around their necks. But Hilary beat Trump. So maybe they should embrace her strategy.

All Elite Wrestling is now official there will be a free rally next week at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium Tony Khan, son of billionaire Jags owner is financing Guys are being signed to multi year deals so they are serious. They reportedly have multiple offers for TV. They wont be working with ROH. They are competition. They want to work with new japan. But it’s up to new japan who has a good relationship with ROH. Key next step is Kenny Omega who’s deal expires end of January and who will have a huge wwe offer. He’s been conspicuously absent from a lot of the elite stuff but was pushing the announcement. I’d expect he’s “in”.

I heard an interview with niku where he says he prefers the right side actually. Im not sure you want to risk splitting kuli and Myers. Myers has been much better since kulikov has been back. If buff isn’t our long term they will try to weather it. But that’s a huge loss.

He’s such a simpleton

Not good. May have to explore a trade

Not having a good year jets definitely upgraded at that position

Now blaming Dems for deaths of two kids in custody at the border. He’s a sick ****

As noted, here’s the big deal

Imagine Chipman ever saying that publicly.

He’s losing his mind.

He posted it after being charged. So I think it was just arrogance that he could leverage a popular character into creating a new narrative and generating support. It was wildly bizarre.