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- WEBVTT 00:00:11.069 --> 00:00:13.390 What is up, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome in 00:00:13.390 --> 00:00:16.010 to Tables, Tailgates, and Top Loaders. I am your 00:00:16.010 --> 00:00:19.149 host, TB, aka Tim Beardsley. Thank you so much 00:00:19.149 --> 00:00:21.129 for stopping in. If you are brand new to the 00:00:21.129 --> 00:00:23.550 program, I encourage you to go back to some previous 00:00:23.550 --> 00:00:26.089 episodes and check them out. If you have been 00:00:26.089 --> 00:00:28.570 with me since the start, thank you so much for 00:00:28.570 --> 00:00:31.489 returning and for sticking with me. We have so 00:00:31.489 --> 00:00:34.189 much to talk about in the world of the Buffalo 00:00:34.189 --> 00:00:37.149 Bills and sports cards, but unfortunately, unfortunately, 00:00:37.350 --> 00:00:40.070 I have to start. out with the negative and that 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:42.270 is taking place in the world of professional 00:00:42.270 --> 00:00:45.250 wrestling if you have watched Monday Night Raw 00:00:45.250 --> 00:00:49.219 and had your eyes on the TV when Gunther, the 00:00:49.219 --> 00:00:52.479 champion, was in the ring, you will know that 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.740 my nightmare scenario is in fact coming true. 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:59.700 You heard the music and you saw none other than 00:00:59.700 --> 00:01:03.740 58 -year -old Bill Goldberg come down to the 00:01:03.740 --> 00:01:08.420 stage and challenge the champion to a match at 00:01:08.420 --> 00:01:11.060 Saturday night's main event. And I'm watching 00:01:11.060 --> 00:01:13.840 the program and I hinted on this in the last 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.390 show. I was worried about it. There were rumors. 00:01:16.510 --> 00:01:18.950 There were rumblings. This is why Jey Uso lost 00:01:18.950 --> 00:01:23.030 because it had to set up this match between Gunther 00:01:23.030 --> 00:01:26.090 and Goldberg because you couldn't have Goldberg 00:01:26.090 --> 00:01:29.450 fight Jey Uso because no one would root for Goldberg. 00:01:29.569 --> 00:01:31.489 But I'm looking at this scenario. I'm watching 00:01:31.489 --> 00:01:35.069 my TV and I'm shaking my head in pure disgust. 00:01:35.069 --> 00:01:39.519 And I am just asking the question, why? Why WWE? 00:01:39.900 --> 00:01:43.819 Why Triple H? Why powers that be are you doing 00:01:43.819 --> 00:01:46.920 this? I just don't get it. I don't get it. It 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.859 makes no sense. I said last week that no one 00:01:49.859 --> 00:01:52.780 wants to see this match, and it's absolutely 00:01:52.780 --> 00:01:55.599 true. No one wants to see this match. Now, in 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:57.959 order to prepare for this show, I went back and 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.099 I had to do my research because I like to try 00:02:00.099 --> 00:02:02.560 to know what the heck I'm talking about. I'll 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.599 be honest with you, folks. Process was painful. 00:02:05.859 --> 00:02:09.060 I went back all the way to 2016. If you remember, 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.960 Goldberg had been out of the WWE for about 12 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.780 years, and he made his heroic return to the WWE 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:20.840 in 2016. And so I picked up from there. I went 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.659 back all the way to 2016, which is nine years 00:02:23.659 --> 00:02:26.879 ago, and I watched every single Goldberg match 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:31.400 from 2016 until present day. It sucked. It was 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.080 a terrible process. This was awful. I don't wish 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.360 this on my worst enemy, but someone had to do 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.939 it for research purposes. And so I went back 00:02:38.939 --> 00:02:41.360 and took notes on each and every match. And I 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.960 thought it would be a fun, painful exercise to 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.280 share with you folks the last nine years of Bill 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:51.639 Goldberg and try to figure out. Why? Why the 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:55.180 hell WWE would think this is a good idea? So 00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:57.659 here we go. We're going to jump in the DeLorean. 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:59.759 We're going to go all the way back to November 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:05.199 2016, his amazing return at Survivor Series. 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:08.139 Now, this was the main event against none other 00:03:08.139 --> 00:03:11.199 than Brock Lesnar. If you remember this time 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.300 in wrestling, Brock Lesnar was an absolute beast, 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.960 a beast. He had beaten The Undertaker at WrestleMania 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:21.680 30 two years earlier. He was booked as being 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.840 absolutely unstoppable. Unstoppable. No one could 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.099 touch him. When he beat Taker to beat the streak, 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.860 people thought they were crazy. They thought 00:03:30.860 --> 00:03:34.219 WWE had lost their minds. But I remember that 00:03:34.219 --> 00:03:38.120 match. I remember him. Beating Taker and just 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.259 watching in total disbelief. You see a lot of 00:03:41.259 --> 00:03:44.520 the memes and the pictures of that match and 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.219 the different people losing their collective 00:03:47.219 --> 00:03:49.800 minds because the Taker streak had been broken. 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:52.180 But needless to say, they were setting up Brock 00:03:52.180 --> 00:03:57.060 as an unstoppable, unstoppable force, a wrecking 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:00.400 crew. A one -man wrecking crew in the WWE. So, 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:02.659 needless to say, here we are trying to set the 00:04:02.659 --> 00:04:05.759 stage for November 2016 Survivor Series. This 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:08.000 is the main event. Bill Goldberg, Brock Lesnar. 00:04:08.099 --> 00:04:10.680 Now, before the match even starts, there is a 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:13.860 super long promo package in which Bill, I'm going 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:15.960 to call him Bill, in which Bill talks about him 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.379 having one more match left in him, one more spear 00:04:19.379 --> 00:04:22.620 in him, one more jackhammer in him, etc., etc. 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.180 He's talking about one more match all the way 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:27.839 back in 2016. You get where I'm going with this. 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:32.759 This is a long, overdrawn, nine -year bunch of 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:35.220 crap. So they play this super long promo package. 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:38.240 They come to the ring. They get introduced. The 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.339 match starts. Bill Goldberg pushes Brock down, 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.199 just a simple push, right? Brock's on the mat 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.180 looking up. As he gets up, he turns his back 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:50.819 around. Bill spears him once, spears him twice, 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.759 hits the jackhammer. One, two, three, match is 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:57.060 over. That's the match. That is the main event 00:04:57.060 --> 00:05:00.079 of Survivor Series in 2016. This match time, 00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:03.819 according to all the documents, was one minute, 00:05:03.899 --> 00:05:07.040 26 seconds. One minute, 26 seconds to destroy 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.639 what you had built in Brock Lesnar as this unstoppable 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.439 monster beating the streak, beating all this 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:16.120 stuff. He had not lost. I believe he had not 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:19.000 lost to this point Brock Lesnar in over three 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.079 years. And here comes Goldberg 12 years later, 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.769 fresh out of. doing nothing, fresh off the couch, 00:05:25.910 --> 00:05:29.009 and destroys Brock Lesnar in a minute 26 seconds. 00:05:29.329 --> 00:05:33.410 Lesnar got in zero offensive moves. Zero. Zero. 00:05:33.790 --> 00:05:36.509 And to make matters worse, then after the match, 00:05:36.589 --> 00:05:38.029 and I remember, here's the great thing about 00:05:38.029 --> 00:05:41.629 going and re -watching these matches, nostalgia 00:05:41.629 --> 00:05:44.430 in WWE and wrestling is real. It's real. And 00:05:44.430 --> 00:05:46.370 you have these images in your head of what these 00:05:46.370 --> 00:05:48.009 matches were, and then you go back and watch 00:05:48.009 --> 00:05:51.050 them, and the emotions and the frustrations immediately 00:05:51.050 --> 00:05:54.370 come back. It's kind of crazy. So if you have 00:05:54.370 --> 00:05:56.689 this vision in your head of what a match was, 00:05:56.870 --> 00:05:59.029 I encourage you go back and check it out. It's 00:05:59.029 --> 00:06:02.850 awesome. I love getting on. I think everything's 00:06:02.850 --> 00:06:05.629 on Peacock now. It used to be on the WWE Network 00:06:05.629 --> 00:06:08.470 and various platforms, but it's awesome. Go back, 00:06:08.529 --> 00:06:10.670 check out the matches you think are great. Sometimes 00:06:10.670 --> 00:06:12.610 they still are. Sometimes they're a disaster. 00:06:12.829 --> 00:06:15.410 But so I remember this match. And at the time 00:06:15.410 --> 00:06:17.850 when this match was getting hyped. Bill kept 00:06:17.850 --> 00:06:20.050 talking about his son and he wanted his son to 00:06:20.050 --> 00:06:22.569 see him wrestle. So this debacle of a match, 00:06:22.629 --> 00:06:25.089 one minute, 26 seconds is over. And Bill then 00:06:25.089 --> 00:06:28.850 brings his shirtless son in the ring. The kid 00:06:28.850 --> 00:06:31.129 is not wearing a shirt. And I'm not going to 00:06:31.129 --> 00:06:33.889 say too much more about that, but it is weird. 00:06:34.069 --> 00:06:36.709 It's just weird. He drags his kid in the stage, 00:06:36.910 --> 00:06:41.009 parades him around, and it's just a very... strange 00:06:41.009 --> 00:06:44.629 post -match celebration between Goldberg and 00:06:44.629 --> 00:06:48.009 his shirtless kid, who's probably, I don't know, 00:06:48.050 --> 00:06:51.470 10, 11 years old at the time. It's just very 00:06:51.470 --> 00:06:54.050 strange. But anyway, let's get back in the DeLorean. 00:06:54.209 --> 00:06:57.290 Let's fast forward to January 2017. His next 00:06:57.290 --> 00:07:01.009 match on this fiasco of a nine -year stretch 00:07:01.009 --> 00:07:03.689 is none other than the Royal Rumble. Not too 00:07:03.689 --> 00:07:06.470 much to say about this, but he is the 28th entrant 00:07:06.470 --> 00:07:09.430 in the Royal Rumble. He comes in. He immediately 00:07:09.430 --> 00:07:11.790 squares up against none other than Brock Lesnar 00:07:11.790 --> 00:07:14.470 and he throws Brock Lesnar out. And I'm just 00:07:14.470 --> 00:07:16.730 watching this going, of course he did. Because 00:07:16.730 --> 00:07:20.050 why don't we just continue to kick Lesnar and 00:07:20.050 --> 00:07:23.810 make him look weaker and weaker? It's just stupid. 00:07:23.930 --> 00:07:26.170 And then none other than The Undertaker comes 00:07:26.170 --> 00:07:29.029 in because that really makes a lot of sense. 00:07:29.350 --> 00:07:31.930 Goldberg is squashing Lesnar the last few times 00:07:31.930 --> 00:07:34.089 out. And now here comes The Undertaker who... 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.180 Lesnar beat and throws Bill Goldberg out. So 00:07:37.180 --> 00:07:39.480 Goldberg comes in, throws a couple people out, 00:07:39.540 --> 00:07:42.399 and then he's tossed out of the ring by Undertaker. 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:45.399 So that's that. Then we fast forward two months 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.519 to March of the same year, March of 2017. The 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.819 pay -per -view is Fastlane. Now, if you remember 00:07:51.819 --> 00:07:55.839 this, this is awful. Just awful. Fastlane, the 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.319 main event, is Bill Goldberg versus KO, Kevin 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:03.790 Owens, who is the universal champion. Now, if 00:08:03.790 --> 00:08:07.230 you remember this match, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 00:08:07.410 --> 00:08:10.370 It's just it's terrible. They come down. The 00:08:10.370 --> 00:08:12.829 match starts. The bell rings. KO instantly rolls 00:08:12.829 --> 00:08:15.810 out of the ring. He walks around the ring. He's 00:08:15.810 --> 00:08:18.170 stalling for time. Clear heel tactic, right? 00:08:18.329 --> 00:08:20.470 Rolls back in the ring. They're about to lock 00:08:20.470 --> 00:08:22.649 up. He rolls out. I mean, he does this probably 00:08:22.649 --> 00:08:24.529 three or four times and he's just walking around 00:08:24.529 --> 00:08:27.680 the ring for five to six minutes. Finally, finally, 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:29.699 he gets in the ring. The match looks like it's 00:08:29.699 --> 00:08:33.000 about to start. And Chris Jericho appears at 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:37.059 the top of the ramp, distracts Kevin Owens. Bill 00:08:37.059 --> 00:08:39.419 hits him with a spear, the jackhammer. One, two, 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.940 three winner, new universal champion. The actual 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:43.980 wrestling in this match is about 10 seconds. 00:08:44.179 --> 00:08:46.220 There's a whole lot of shenanigans, a whole lot 00:08:46.220 --> 00:08:48.940 of nothing. Again, main event, Kevin Owens, one, 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.379 two, three, new universal champion, Bill Goldberg. 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.159 It's pathetic. I understand what they were doing 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:58.559 with Kevin Owens getting his comeuppance by Chris 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.399 Jericho because they had a storyline there, which 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.539 was great. And then throw Bill Goldberg in the 00:09:03.539 --> 00:09:05.740 mix and he takes the belt off the champion. It 00:09:05.740 --> 00:09:09.960 made KO look absolutely terrible. So then we 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:14.279 go one month later, April 2017, WrestleMania 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.600 33. Guess who he's fighting again? None other 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.799 than Brock Lesnar. We have an absolute awesome 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.879 promo. Awesome promo package before the match. 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.519 This promo package is narrated by none other 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.279 than Paul Heyman. Now, Paul Heyman's great. He 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.539 is great. He's one of the all -time greats, all 00:09:31.539 --> 00:09:34.779 -time great managers, just iconic in the world 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:37.059 of professional wrestling. Awesome. Awesome promo 00:09:37.059 --> 00:09:39.799 package. So here come the two guys. Match starts. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:43.039 Brock takes him to what was referred to then 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:47.419 as Suplex City. He hits Bill with three suplexes 00:09:47.419 --> 00:09:49.799 in a row. Three. And what does Bill do? And this 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:52.519 is the thing that really ticks me off. Bill completely 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.360 no -sells it. Completely no -sells it. He gets 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.940 up, hits him with two spears, hits Lesnar with 00:09:58.940 --> 00:10:01.559 two spears, goes for the pin. Lesnar rolls out 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.440 of the ring to save his ass, essentially. Bill 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:06.279 follows him outside the ring, hits him with another 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.500 spear through a barricade, gets him back in the 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:10.500 ring, hits him with a fourth spear. Then he hits 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:13.320 Lesnar with his jackhammer because at this point, 00:10:13.340 --> 00:10:16.059 his matches are two moves. It's a spear and a 00:10:16.059 --> 00:10:18.600 jackhammer and that's it. I get it. That's what 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.059 it used to be back in the WCW days when the matches 00:10:21.059 --> 00:10:24.039 were literally 30 to 60 seconds. But now Goldberg 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.620 is late 40s, approaching 50 years old. And these 00:10:27.620 --> 00:10:30.200 matches, they just, you can't be doing these 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.279 matches at this point anymore because they suck. 00:10:33.460 --> 00:10:36.500 So fourth spear in the ring, jackhammer and... 00:10:36.830 --> 00:10:39.250 Oh, lo and behold, Lesnar actually kicks out. 00:10:39.309 --> 00:10:42.070 At this point, Bill goes for a fifth spear. A 00:10:42.070 --> 00:10:45.850 fifth spear. Lesnar jumps over him. And Goldberg 00:10:45.850 --> 00:10:49.269 runs into the turnbuckle. Lesnar kind of gets 00:10:49.269 --> 00:10:51.990 the upper hand because Goldberg is kind of woozy. 00:10:52.289 --> 00:10:55.350 And then Lesnar hits him with seven. I repeat, 00:10:55.549 --> 00:10:58.970 seven straight German suplexes. Seven. Then he 00:10:58.970 --> 00:11:01.409 hits him with an F5. Match over. Lesnar wins. 00:11:01.669 --> 00:11:05.820 Thank God. Thank God. So Bill. gets four spears 00:11:05.820 --> 00:11:09.320 and a jackhammer, goes for a fifth, misses, seven 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.120 Germans, F5, match over. I mean, that's it. I 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.799 guess this was their way of Lesnar getting some 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:21.019 sort of dignity back, but who knows? So now Goldberg 00:11:21.019 --> 00:11:23.679 goes away for a while and we don't see him for 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.440 over two years. The next time we see him is June 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:30.360 2019, Super Showdown versus The Undertaker. Now 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.440 this match takes place in Saudi Arabia and folks, 00:11:34.009 --> 00:11:36.850 I don't know how to say this. This match is an 00:11:36.850 --> 00:11:40.470 absolute train wreck. Train wreck. If you look 00:11:40.470 --> 00:11:43.149 up the definition of train wreck in your dictionary, 00:11:43.230 --> 00:11:46.289 you will see a picture of Taker and Goldberg 00:11:46.289 --> 00:11:48.750 side by side. Terrible. This is one of the worst 00:11:48.750 --> 00:11:51.429 matches you will ever see. Now, the best part 00:11:51.429 --> 00:11:53.750 of the entire show. Let's look at the entire 00:11:53.750 --> 00:11:57.210 show. This Super Showdown show over there. And 00:11:57.210 --> 00:12:01.799 there was a lot of negativity that the WWE. was 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:03.639 taking what a lot of people call blood money 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:06.259 and going over to Saudi and putting on these 00:12:06.259 --> 00:12:09.100 huge shows. And they were getting paid ridiculous 00:12:09.100 --> 00:12:11.820 amounts of money to put these shows on it over 00:12:11.820 --> 00:12:14.259 there. But needless to say, the best part of 00:12:14.259 --> 00:12:17.980 this entire show is the song for the promo package 00:12:17.980 --> 00:12:20.779 leading to this match. If you haven't heard When 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:24.120 Legends Rise by Godsmack, that song is fire, 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:26.840 fire. Best part of the match by far. As soon 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.570 as that promo is over. you should turn the TV 00:12:29.570 --> 00:12:32.210 off because this match is terrible. Bill comes 00:12:32.210 --> 00:12:35.470 out first and he has this entrance where if you 00:12:35.470 --> 00:12:39.529 know Bill Goldberg, he is, the camera is backstage 00:12:39.529 --> 00:12:43.990 with him and it's a closeup of his locker room, 00:12:44.070 --> 00:12:46.809 dressing room door. This is classic. You see 00:12:46.809 --> 00:12:48.769 this hundreds and hundreds of times over the 00:12:48.769 --> 00:12:51.090 years. There's a knock on the door. The door 00:12:51.090 --> 00:12:53.769 opens. Bill Goldberg comes out. He gets escorted 00:12:53.769 --> 00:12:56.629 by all these security guys and there's all this. 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.580 Nonsense. It takes forever. So you can imagine 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:03.100 that when Undertaker and Goldberg each have an 00:13:03.100 --> 00:13:05.379 entrance, you're looking at 10 to 15 minutes 00:13:05.379 --> 00:13:07.259 before they even get to the freaking ring. But 00:13:07.259 --> 00:13:11.460 the door opens on Bill's locker room and he comes 00:13:11.460 --> 00:13:14.080 out and he has a cut on his forehead. It's a 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:16.360 visible cut. You see it immediately. And he's 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:18.539 bleeding from the forehead. He looks terrible. 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:20.620 Right away, as soon as he comes out of the locker 00:13:20.620 --> 00:13:22.559 room, he looks terrible. He looks like he already 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.179 wrestled a match. Now, if you try to dive into 00:13:25.179 --> 00:13:27.299 this a little and you look into this, there's 00:13:27.299 --> 00:13:29.159 some rumors out there that he may or may not 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.960 have given himself a concussion on his stupid 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:34.580 pre -match ritual in which he slams his head 00:13:34.580 --> 00:13:36.179 on the door to his locker room before he comes 00:13:36.179 --> 00:13:39.159 out. If you watch the video, he looks woozy as 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.480 hell. He looks off. He just looks off. He looks 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:45.480 out of it as he's walking. It's just a very strange 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.970 thing. You should all go back and watch it. just 00:13:47.970 --> 00:13:50.629 because this match is so bad. So he's walking 00:13:50.629 --> 00:13:53.230 out and we're already off to a terrible, terrible 00:13:53.230 --> 00:13:56.129 start. So the match starts. Taker throws one 00:13:56.129 --> 00:13:59.669 punch, a single punch. That's it. He throws one 00:13:59.669 --> 00:14:02.649 punch and then Bill Goldberg hits him with two 00:14:02.649 --> 00:14:05.870 spears, two spears right off Jump Street. Taker 00:14:05.870 --> 00:14:08.509 does his rise from the dead thing in which he 00:14:08.509 --> 00:14:11.029 sits up. He then gets up, goes for a choke slam. 00:14:11.149 --> 00:14:13.250 They kind of roll around on the ground. And then 00:14:13.250 --> 00:14:16.110 Bill puts him in the weirdest, weirdest lock 00:14:16.110 --> 00:14:18.809 I've ever seen. Bill puts him in what the announcers 00:14:18.809 --> 00:14:21.350 are calling a knee bar. I don't know if you all 00:14:21.350 --> 00:14:23.909 watch a lot of professional wrestling. But you 00:14:23.909 --> 00:14:27.909 don't see announcers call a lock a knee bar very 00:14:27.909 --> 00:14:30.570 often. He's basically grabbing his foot and just 00:14:30.570 --> 00:14:32.750 kind of laying there and doing nothing. It looks 00:14:32.750 --> 00:14:35.490 strange as hell. I don't know how else to describe 00:14:35.490 --> 00:14:37.590 it. Then they change the name of the move and 00:14:37.590 --> 00:14:40.330 they call it a heel hook. It's literally nothing. 00:14:40.509 --> 00:14:43.710 He's literally doing nothing. At one point, Renee 00:14:43.710 --> 00:14:46.009 Young is on the announce table and she says, 00:14:46.250 --> 00:14:48.769 Goldberg looks like a million bucks tonight. 00:14:48.909 --> 00:14:51.220 And I'm like. What the hell are you all talking 00:14:51.220 --> 00:14:53.220 about? Bill Goldberg looks like he's on Mars 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:54.980 right now. He looks like he's on another freaking 00:14:54.980 --> 00:14:57.440 planet. He doesn't know what he's doing. It looks 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.019 terrible. Anyway, Goldberg, they finally get 00:15:00.019 --> 00:15:02.340 off the mat from this stupid heel hook, knee 00:15:02.340 --> 00:15:04.799 bar, whatever the heck that is. Taker's in the 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.480 corner. Bill runs at him, almost like to hit 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.679 him with a spear. Taker moves out of the way 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.139 and Bill hits the ring post. And this is where 00:15:12.139 --> 00:15:15.779 things go from bad to holy crap, this is really 00:15:15.779 --> 00:15:18.740 bad. His face gets busted up because his head 00:15:18.740 --> 00:15:23.309 hit. the post, and he is bleeding profusely from 00:15:23.309 --> 00:15:25.210 his head. I mean, his whole head is covered with 00:15:25.210 --> 00:15:28.090 blood. He basically then collapses in the corner, 00:15:28.190 --> 00:15:32.309 collapses. It looks terrible. So Taker, probably 00:15:32.309 --> 00:15:34.629 because he knew something was up, he kind of 00:15:34.629 --> 00:15:37.149 slows the match way down. And Taker, by the way, 00:15:37.250 --> 00:15:40.850 side note, he is looking old as hell. He is as 00:15:40.850 --> 00:15:43.370 slow as I've ever seen him at this point in his 00:15:43.370 --> 00:15:45.889 career. He goes for the tombstone pile driver. 00:15:46.210 --> 00:15:49.629 And folks, I got to say, I am surprised Bill 00:15:49.629 --> 00:15:51.950 Goldberg is still walking after this pile driver. 00:15:52.129 --> 00:15:55.230 It is awful. Awful. Taker picks him up, goes 00:15:55.230 --> 00:15:57.649 to put him in the tombstone pile driver. He kind 00:15:57.649 --> 00:15:59.809 of hesitates. There's like this little hitch 00:15:59.809 --> 00:16:02.289 in the middle of the move. It kind of throws 00:16:02.289 --> 00:16:04.129 off their weight a little bit. And then he proceeds 00:16:04.129 --> 00:16:06.730 to drop Goldberg right straight on his head. 00:16:06.809 --> 00:16:09.230 Right straight on his head. I'm surprised he 00:16:09.230 --> 00:16:12.570 was even moving after that. Goldberg somehow 00:16:12.570 --> 00:16:15.889 manages to kick out. He gets up off the mat and 00:16:15.889 --> 00:16:18.409 his legs are wobbly as hell. He's switching. 00:16:18.590 --> 00:16:22.370 His legs look terrible. Now, you can tell if 00:16:22.370 --> 00:16:24.610 you watch enough wrestling what the sell job 00:16:24.610 --> 00:16:27.990 is and when someone is like legitimately, oh 00:16:27.990 --> 00:16:31.269 gosh, this isn't good. And it's clear in this 00:16:31.269 --> 00:16:34.169 match, Goldberg at this point has no clue where 00:16:34.169 --> 00:16:36.789 he is. He keeps shaking his head like he's trying 00:16:36.789 --> 00:16:38.950 to clear cobwebs off. If you watch football, 00:16:39.210 --> 00:16:42.399 you see players do this all the time. He keeps 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:44.820 shaking his head, trying to see straight. At 00:16:44.820 --> 00:16:47.039 one point, both of them are running the ropes. 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.360 And they just, you could tell, like old school, 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.759 the double clothesline move. They don't accomplish 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:54.840 it. They just collide in the middle of the ring, 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.399 Taker and Goldberg. They kind of fall down. If 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:00.000 you watch this point where Goldberg runs the 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.519 ropes, if you watch his feet very closely, it's 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.700 like his feet don't know what they're doing. 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.880 It's very scary. It's very sad. And then at this 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:12.299 point when they're... down in the middle of the 00:17:12.299 --> 00:17:15.960 ring to add even more irony the Saudi crowd starts 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.859 cheering this is awesome and I'm like y 'all 00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:21.539 have lost your mind this is the worst match I've 00:17:21.539 --> 00:17:23.400 ever seen and they're chanting this is awesome 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:26.819 so somehow Bill manages to get up hits a spear 00:17:26.819 --> 00:17:30.359 and then he calls for the jackhammer now I remembered 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.880 back to when I watched this live and I knew that 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.180 this was going to be awful and it was just as 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:38.160 bad as it was the first time watching it back 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.819 he picks Taker up He gets him up about three 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:44.220 quarters of the way, and then he straight drops 00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:46.720 him on his head. Drops him on his head. He can't 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.859 hit the jackhammer. He can't get Taker up. It 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:52.319 looks terrible. He drops him on his head. Bill 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:54.940 then decides he does this hand motion where he 00:17:54.940 --> 00:17:56.579 calls for something. Not sure what the hell he's 00:17:56.579 --> 00:17:59.880 doing. He picks Taker up again, and this time 00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:02.779 he goes for Taker's move, the tombstone pile 00:18:02.779 --> 00:18:05.799 driver. He tries to pick him up. The two of them 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:08.700 just fall over in the middle of the ring. Taker 00:18:08.700 --> 00:18:11.160 gets up. picks him up, hits him with the worst 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.259 choke slam you will ever see, and thank the heavens, 00:18:15.460 --> 00:18:18.000 he pins him for a very merciful three count. 00:18:18.180 --> 00:18:21.119 Folks, I am not overselling it. This is the worst 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:23.359 match you will ever see. After the match, Taker 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.680 clearly looks pissed as hell. I mean, he is pissed. 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.920 He's talking to himself. He's muttering. He's 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:31.160 looking around the ring. It is a complete and 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:33.819 total train wreck. Complete, total train wreck. 00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:37.079 And this is June of 2019. So then apparently 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:39.279 to redeem himself, we're going to fast forward 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.720 two months to August of 2019. This is the SummerSlam 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.220 match versus Dolph Ziggler. Now, if you know 00:18:47.220 --> 00:18:50.079 Dolph Ziggler, I love Dolph Ziggler back in the 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.539 day. I think he's a great worker. I think he's 00:18:52.539 --> 00:18:56.039 great to have on the roster. And he is probably 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:58.519 one of the best sellers in wrestling since Shawn 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:02.000 Michaels. But the setup to this match is so freaking 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.000 convoluted. I'm watching back through and preparing 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:09.259 for this show, and it's so messed up. Originally, 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:13.220 Shawn Michaels were supposed to fight Dolph Ziggler, 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:15.940 and then somehow The Miz gets involved, and there's 00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:20.319 a contract signing, and... The Miz says to Dolph, 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:21.819 oh, you didn't read the contract. You're not 00:19:21.819 --> 00:19:24.079 fighting me. And then Michael says, oh, you're 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.579 not fighting me. And then Goldberg's music hits 00:19:26.579 --> 00:19:28.779 and Bill Goldberg comes out and signs the contract. 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:32.160 It is so stupid and convoluted. Anyway, fast 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.660 forward. Here we go. SummerSlam match, Dolph 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:37.660 Ziggler versus Bill Goldberg. Match starts. Ziggler, 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.039 surprising the hell out of everyone, gets in 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.019 an awesome super kick. I mean, this kick is a 00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:47.130 thing of beauty. In pure Goldberg fashion, he 00:19:47.130 --> 00:19:50.250 essentially no -sells this move and Dolph barely 00:19:50.250 --> 00:19:53.349 gets a one count. Barely. I mean, the hand hits 00:19:53.349 --> 00:19:56.210 the mat one time and Goldberg's up. It's awful. 00:19:56.569 --> 00:19:59.630 Ziggler gets a second kick in and then we have 00:19:59.630 --> 00:20:02.029 another no -sell and another kick out immediately. 00:20:02.809 --> 00:20:05.910 Goldberg gets up, hits the spear. Ziggler sells 00:20:05.910 --> 00:20:09.450 the hell out of it. This is pure Milano smashing 00:20:09.450 --> 00:20:14.099 Mike White. That's how awesome this is. sell 00:20:14.099 --> 00:20:17.400 job is. Ziggler sells the hell out of it. Goldberg, 00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:20.319 jackhammer, one, two, three, matches over. That's 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.759 it. That's the match. Two super kicks, which 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.880 he no sold. Spear, jackhammer, done. So Bill 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:28.660 Lee is leaving. Ziggler somehow manages to... 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.980 get a hold of the microphone, and this is the 00:20:30.980 --> 00:20:33.460 best part of the match. As Bill is leaving the 00:20:33.460 --> 00:20:37.319 arena or the ramp, Dolph starts talking smack, 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.579 and it's glorious. He says getting hit by Goldberg 00:20:40.579 --> 00:20:43.299 is like getting hit by a baby, and he's just 00:20:43.299 --> 00:20:46.200 talking straight trash. Bill comes back, hits 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:49.599 him with another spear. Bill leaves again. Dolph 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.839 gets the mic a second time, keeps talking more 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.230 trash. Bill comes back again, and shocking. What 00:20:56.230 --> 00:20:58.430 have we never seen before? A Bill Goldberg spear. 00:20:58.609 --> 00:21:01.609 So he hits Ziggler with two post -match spears, 00:21:01.609 --> 00:21:06.369 which Ziggler sells amazingly, by the way. And 00:21:06.369 --> 00:21:09.069 that was the fiasco. That was the Ziggler match 00:21:09.069 --> 00:21:11.089 in SummerSlam. Now we're going to fast forward 00:21:11.089 --> 00:21:14.710 to February of 2020. And this is where I really 00:21:14.710 --> 00:21:17.829 start to get upset. This is Super Showdown. Again, 00:21:17.990 --> 00:21:20.609 in Saudi, you're going to see a theme here. Apparently 00:21:20.609 --> 00:21:22.869 the Saudis love Bill Goldberg and they must have 00:21:22.869 --> 00:21:25.690 paid a ton of money to have him over there because 00:21:25.690 --> 00:21:29.529 they go absolute bonkers when he comes out. They 00:21:29.529 --> 00:21:31.730 must love him because he's on like all of these 00:21:31.730 --> 00:21:34.269 Saudi shows. So super showdown versus the fiend, 00:21:34.289 --> 00:21:36.450 the fiend Bray Wyatt. Now I know a lot of you 00:21:36.450 --> 00:21:39.049 out there when the fiend was champion, you're 00:21:39.049 --> 00:21:40.630 going to say, well, he wasn't that good. And 00:21:40.630 --> 00:21:42.670 I don't care. I don't care what you say. I love 00:21:42.670 --> 00:21:45.710 Bray Wyatt. I love every, every version of Bray 00:21:45.710 --> 00:21:49.700 Wyatt. he's my dude sucks that he's gone i love 00:21:49.700 --> 00:21:53.059 that guy so this is the main event of super showdown 00:21:53.059 --> 00:21:56.880 the fiend is the universal champion and now he's 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.940 fighting none other than bill goldberg so they 00:21:59.940 --> 00:22:02.240 get in the ring the fiend is in the corner and 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.240 he's slowly taking off his jacket and before 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:07.059 he can even get his jacket off and this really 00:22:07.059 --> 00:22:09.039 makes goldberg look like a good guy before he 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:11.140 can even get his jacket off bill goldberg hits 00:22:11.140 --> 00:22:14.039 him with a spear it's ridiculous and then somehow 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:17.240 the fiend managed to get The mandible claw on 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:19.119 Goldberg, that was one of his moves, the mandible 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:21.500 claw, in which he essentially takes his hand 00:22:21.500 --> 00:22:27.039 and grabs his chin slash lower lip area. It's 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:31.079 like a submission hold. Bill breaks it, hits 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:34.839 Bray with three spears. Three. Now, thank God, 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.400 Bray manages to kick out. This is the only redeeming 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.359 part of the match, the fact that Wyatt was able 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.839 to kick out after three spears. He locks the 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:44.890 mandible claw in again. And think about it. I'm 00:22:44.890 --> 00:22:47.230 watching this match back. So the fiend, who's 00:22:47.230 --> 00:22:50.049 your champion, gets in two moves, two. And it's 00:22:50.049 --> 00:22:52.390 the mandible claw each time. Think about it. 00:22:52.430 --> 00:22:54.710 Why is this the only move that Bray's allowed 00:22:54.710 --> 00:22:57.269 to do to Goldberg? I'm thinking about that as 00:22:57.269 --> 00:22:59.410 I'm watching this back going. That's how trashy 00:22:59.410 --> 00:23:01.829 he is as a wrestler at this point in his career 00:23:01.829 --> 00:23:04.930 that the only offense your universal champion 00:23:04.930 --> 00:23:08.509 can get in on Bill Goldberg is a submission hold 00:23:08.509 --> 00:23:11.750 in which he grabs your face. That's it. So, of 00:23:11.750 --> 00:23:14.970 course. Goldberg breaks out of the claw, hits 00:23:14.970 --> 00:23:18.150 him with an absolute trash jackhammer. Terrible, 00:23:18.150 --> 00:23:20.150 terrible looking jackhammer. And of course, one, 00:23:20.250 --> 00:23:22.609 two, three, new champion Bill Goldberg. He gave 00:23:22.609 --> 00:23:25.109 the Fiend their first loss. And this pissed me 00:23:25.109 --> 00:23:28.190 off so much. Absolute freaking garbage. February 00:23:28.190 --> 00:23:31.829 2020 Super Showdown. Terrible. So Goldberg, new 00:23:31.829 --> 00:23:34.029 universal champion. And of course, if you know 00:23:34.029 --> 00:23:36.250 history, this is right when COVID's about to 00:23:36.250 --> 00:23:38.890 hit. So you fast forward to two months, April 00:23:38.890 --> 00:23:42.549 2020, to WrestleMania 36. This is COVID time. 00:23:42.710 --> 00:23:44.809 They're doing it in a completely empty arena. 00:23:45.230 --> 00:23:48.049 This match was tough. It was originally supposed 00:23:48.049 --> 00:23:52.170 to be Roman Reigns, but because of Roman's health 00:23:52.170 --> 00:23:56.309 issues and cancer history, Roman was not going 00:23:56.309 --> 00:23:58.509 to be in this. And so who's his replacement? 00:23:58.690 --> 00:24:01.589 The monster among men, Braun Strowman for the 00:24:01.589 --> 00:24:05.170 Universal Championship in an empty arena. This 00:24:05.170 --> 00:24:07.720 match is frustrating too. Match starts. Goldberg 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:11.859 hits Braun with four spears. Four. Nothing else 00:24:11.859 --> 00:24:14.859 happens. Braun then power slams Goldberg four 00:24:14.859 --> 00:24:17.799 straight times. Four straight spears followed 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:20.180 by four straight power slams. One, two, three. 00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:22.920 New champion. Match over. I'm watching. I'm like, 00:24:22.980 --> 00:24:26.819 what? What the heck is going on? Two moves. Two 00:24:26.819 --> 00:24:29.660 moves in a Universal Championship match. This 00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:32.200 is the first time Braun has been Universal Champ. 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:34.980 And all I can say is, ugh, this was terrible. 00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:38.410 Terrible. So then we got to fast forward all 00:24:38.410 --> 00:24:42.130 the way to January of 2021. Royal Rumble, Bill 00:24:42.130 --> 00:24:45.690 Goldberg versus Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship. 00:24:46.029 --> 00:24:47.890 They were still in the Thunderdome. So if you 00:24:47.890 --> 00:24:50.990 remember the Thunderdome, the walls of the Thunderdome 00:24:50.990 --> 00:24:55.549 were filled with screens of people watching from 00:24:55.549 --> 00:24:58.509 their computers, Zoom, whatever. Way better than 00:24:58.509 --> 00:25:01.869 an empty arena. But still weird as hell. So Royal 00:25:01.869 --> 00:25:04.470 Rumble versus Drew McIntyre, who was WWE champion. 00:25:04.829 --> 00:25:07.109 And he was doing a pretty good job. Before the 00:25:07.109 --> 00:25:09.410 bell even starts, they start fighting. There's 00:25:09.410 --> 00:25:11.190 a spear on the outside through the barricade. 00:25:11.529 --> 00:25:14.150 They get back in the ring. Drew hits him with 00:25:14.150 --> 00:25:17.849 a Claymore. Of course, Bill kicks out. Goldberg 00:25:17.849 --> 00:25:20.410 hits him with two spears. Jackhammer. Drew kicks 00:25:20.410 --> 00:25:23.269 out. Goldberg goes for another spear. He misses. 00:25:23.829 --> 00:25:26.029 Drew hits him with another Claymore. And Drew 00:25:26.029 --> 00:25:28.930 wins. So Claymore, spear, jackhammer, Claymore. 00:25:29.009 --> 00:25:31.799 That's it. That's a match. After the match, Bill 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:34.000 gives Drew his props. They embrace. There's a 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.240 nice hug. Yada, yada. You would never see Drew 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:39.420 do that now. Goldberg actually says congrats 00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:42.660 and raises his hand and is freaking stupid. The 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:44.319 reason I like this match is because this is the 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:46.579 first time Goldberg is actually wearing shorts. 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.859 It's weird. I'm like, what the heck is he doing? 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:52.059 He's wearing actual shorts and not his booty 00:25:52.059 --> 00:25:54.740 shorts that he's rocked for like 30 years, which 00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:58.279 looks stupid at this point. But that match, I 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:00.460 don't know. It was okay because there was a little 00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:02.799 stuff going on on the outside, but all in all, 00:26:02.900 --> 00:26:04.779 not that great. So then we fast forward all the 00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:07.619 way to August, same year, 2021, August, SummerSlam 00:26:07.619 --> 00:26:10.259 versus champion Bobby Lashley. Now this match, 00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:14.279 not too bad in the scope of these terrible Goldberg 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:16.559 matches. This match is about seven minutes, 10 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.640 seconds. It actually ends with a ref stoppage. 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:23.539 A ref stoppage because in the match, Goldberg. 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.180 develops some sort of knee issue I'm not sure 00:26:26.180 --> 00:26:28.880 if it was real or or what the case may be probably 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:31.859 not but the ref stops the match after the match 00:26:31.859 --> 00:26:34.680 there's some post -match beatdown shenanigans 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:37.279 Lashley's hitting him on the chair over and over 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:41.119 again on the leg and then oh flashback to his 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:44.180 shirtless son way back at the beginning of this 00:26:44.180 --> 00:26:47.059 fiasco project I started here comes his son now 00:26:47.059 --> 00:26:50.519 older jumps on Lashley from behind tries to put 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:52.319 him in I don't know what he's doing he's got 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:54.460 like a sleeper hold on him or whatever the case 00:26:54.460 --> 00:26:58.440 may be. But then Bobby throws, his name was Gage, 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.740 by the way, Bobby throws Gage off of him and 00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:03.619 then proceeds to put this kid in the hurt lock, 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.039 which is his submission move. And the crowd, 00:27:06.259 --> 00:27:09.660 the crowd goes nuts. They go nuts to see champion 00:27:09.660 --> 00:27:12.779 Bobby Lashley put Goldberg's son Gage in a hurt 00:27:12.779 --> 00:27:15.160 lock. It was awesome. But of course, Goldberg 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.700 doesn't take too kindly to that. And we know 00:27:17.700 --> 00:27:19.599 where this program is going. Fast forward to 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.039 August. I'm sorry, fast forward to October. So 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:24.339 a few months later, two months later, Crown Jewel. 00:27:24.460 --> 00:27:26.519 Hey, guess where we are? Back in Saudi. Crown 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:28.940 Jewel versus Bobby Lashley. Now, Bobby doesn't 00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:31.059 have the belt any longer because he lost it to 00:27:31.059 --> 00:27:33.559 Big E, who had the briefcase at the time from 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:36.079 Money in the Bank. Big E cashed in on Lashley. 00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:38.400 Lashley lost the belt. So now here we go. Crown 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.900 Jewel, Goldberg versus Lashley. False count anywhere 00:27:40.900 --> 00:27:43.440 match. This, if I'm being honest, This match 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.700 is the best of these crap matches on this list. 00:27:46.779 --> 00:27:48.380 This is the best of the bunch. It's 11 minutes. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:51.859 They go kind of do some stuff all around the 00:27:51.859 --> 00:27:55.000 place. And Lashley is selling his ass off. He 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.259 works really hard to make Goldberg look good. 00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:59.559 He takes a spear through the table in the corner. 00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.720 They go outside. They're fighting outside. He 00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:03.599 takes a spear through a barricade. Finally, they 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.660 work their way up the ramp and around the top 00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:08.779 of the ramp. Hey, guess what? Bill Goldberg hits 00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:11.440 another spear. They kind of jump off the ramp 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.880 and they both go through these tables that have 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:17.839 been prearranged. Shocking. One, two, three win. 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.920 Bill wins. No belt though, but he gets his win 00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:23.940 back. Then we fast forward to February. So about 00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:27.299 four months later to the final match on this 00:28:27.299 --> 00:28:30.390 list, February, 2022 elimination chamber. Guess 00:28:30.390 --> 00:28:32.009 where we are. I'll give you one guess. Oh, back 00:28:32.009 --> 00:28:34.029 in Saudi. Did anyone pick that up? Well, you 00:28:34.029 --> 00:28:35.970 got it right. Here we are back in Saudi again. 00:28:36.029 --> 00:28:38.349 I want to know. I want to know how much money 00:28:38.349 --> 00:28:41.470 these Saudi princes are handing Triple H and 00:28:41.470 --> 00:28:44.890 company to have Bill Goldberg show up time after 00:28:44.890 --> 00:28:47.390 time after time. But anyway, here we are. We 00:28:47.390 --> 00:28:50.440 have. Bill Goldberg versus Roman Reigns for the 00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:52.759 Universal Championship. As I'm watching back 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:55.019 through these pre -match promo packages, I'm 00:28:55.019 --> 00:28:57.279 starting to notice that they're repeating the 00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:59.720 same Goldberg clips over and over and over again. 00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:02.599 It's like cut and paste, splicing up the same 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:05.240 content, throwing it into a new package for almost 00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:07.500 every one of these matches. It's the same crap. 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:09.759 What I did find from this clip that I really 00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:12.259 liked, at one point, the camera zooms in on Roman 00:29:12.259 --> 00:29:15.710 and he says, Goldberg? Nobody cares because I'm 00:29:15.710 --> 00:29:17.890 here now. And that's exactly my thought when 00:29:17.890 --> 00:29:20.569 I see Goldberg on my television. Goldberg, nobody 00:29:20.569 --> 00:29:23.990 cares. And the promo goes on to say, maybe, and 00:29:23.990 --> 00:29:25.650 they're talking about Goldberg at this point, 00:29:25.789 --> 00:29:28.230 maybe this is one comeback too many. And this 00:29:28.230 --> 00:29:31.309 is February of 2022. Maybe we're just starting 00:29:31.309 --> 00:29:33.930 to question this now. And it's been six years 00:29:33.930 --> 00:29:37.430 since he came back in 2016. Six years. And we're 00:29:37.430 --> 00:29:39.569 finally starting to think maybe this is one comeback 00:29:39.569 --> 00:29:42.029 too many. Holy crap. We should have started this 00:29:42.029 --> 00:29:45.049 conversation six years ago. So anyway, the match 00:29:45.049 --> 00:29:47.009 starts. They brawl around a little bit. Guess 00:29:47.009 --> 00:29:49.789 who hits the spear on Roman Reigns? Oh, Goldberg. 00:29:49.890 --> 00:29:52.730 Two spears goes for the jackhammer. Thank God, 00:29:52.730 --> 00:29:55.500 Roman. Manages to reverse it. Puts him into this 00:29:55.500 --> 00:29:57.940 guillotine. A couple minutes go by. Bill passes 00:29:57.940 --> 00:30:00.079 out in the middle of the ring. That's it. Matches 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.480 over. Six minutes. Roman retains the Universal 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:05.579 Championship. Thank God. Can you imagine if Goldberg 00:30:05.579 --> 00:30:08.420 had beaten Roman Reigns for the title in Saudi 00:30:08.420 --> 00:30:11.640 at Elimination Chamber in February of 2022? What? 00:30:12.029 --> 00:30:13.910 A fiasco that would have been. So all in all, 00:30:13.990 --> 00:30:16.829 folks, 12 matches. He wins five of them. He loses 00:30:16.829 --> 00:30:20.369 seven of them. And four, four of these 12 matches 00:30:20.369 --> 00:30:23.289 are in Saudi Arabia. I would love to know how 00:30:23.289 --> 00:30:26.250 much money they spent to get Goldberg over there. 00:30:26.650 --> 00:30:28.930 Because like I said, the crowd goes wild. So 00:30:28.930 --> 00:30:31.349 fast forward, fast forward to present day, three 00:30:31.349 --> 00:30:34.109 years, four months later, and now here he is 00:30:34.109 --> 00:30:36.329 showing up on your television on Monday Night 00:30:36.329 --> 00:30:39.670 Raw. I know that him and his son Gage, who at 00:30:39.670 --> 00:30:42.809 this point is just as popular and well -known 00:30:42.809 --> 00:30:45.890 through this train wreck of a comeback as Goldberg 00:30:45.890 --> 00:30:48.809 is. So him and his son Gage are at a bad blood 00:30:48.809 --> 00:30:50.589 pay -per -view and there's like some kind of 00:30:50.589 --> 00:30:54.049 standoff in which Gunther starts talking trash 00:30:54.049 --> 00:30:57.150 about Goldberg. And anyway, Of course, Goldberg's 00:30:57.150 --> 00:30:59.710 not going to forget. So fast forward to the last 00:30:59.710 --> 00:31:01.710 episode. The last episode of Monday Night Raw 00:31:01.710 --> 00:31:05.029 and Goldberg is now in the ring with your champion, 00:31:05.150 --> 00:31:07.369 Gunther, and they are fighting for the title 00:31:07.369 --> 00:31:10.309 yet again on Saturday night's main event. 58 00:31:10.309 --> 00:31:12.809 years old. How do we feel about that? I, for 00:31:12.809 --> 00:31:16.710 one, am kind of pissed off. What are we doing? 00:31:17.190 --> 00:31:20.089 No one wants to see it. I tell you what, if Bill 00:31:20.089 --> 00:31:22.670 Goldberg wins this match, I don't know what to 00:31:22.670 --> 00:31:25.289 do. I don't know what to do. But I thought it 00:31:25.289 --> 00:31:28.450 would be fun to walk down memory lane of the 00:31:28.450 --> 00:31:31.349 last nine years. You all let me know. Are you 00:31:31.349 --> 00:31:34.329 as mad as I am? Because this is just infuriating. 00:31:34.369 --> 00:31:37.490 You have Jey Uso lose, which is fine, whatever. 00:31:37.710 --> 00:31:41.869 I wasn't sold on his title reign. But if Gunther 00:31:41.869 --> 00:31:45.250 loses to Goldberg, I'm hoping this is just a 00:31:45.250 --> 00:31:47.490 one -off and this is the last match and he has 00:31:47.490 --> 00:31:49.819 retired and gone off into the sunset. I mean, 00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:51.880 for crying out loud, WWE, you put him in the 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:54.960 Hall of Fame like 10, 11 years ago. Hall of Fame. 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.380 And now he's back for another decade and he keeps 00:31:58.380 --> 00:32:00.579 coming back over and over again. When he came 00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:03.000 out to the ring on Monday, he looked old as hell. 00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:06.519 He had a clear limp, a clear limp. And by the 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.839 time he got to the ring, he was a sweaty mess. 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:12.680 He looks old. He looks hunched over. He can't 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.240 walk right. And I'm just thinking, oh, Lord, 00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:19.369 the best saving grace to this. Fact that he's 00:32:19.369 --> 00:32:21.190 fighting for the title on Saturday night's main 00:32:21.190 --> 00:32:24.930 event, it is the same day as AEW's number one 00:32:24.930 --> 00:32:26.950 pay -per -view of the year all -in in Texas. 00:32:27.170 --> 00:32:29.230 I'm going to be watching all -in because I don't 00:32:29.230 --> 00:32:31.710 want to watch this train wreck that's about to 00:32:31.710 --> 00:32:34.109 happen. So there you go. I thought it would be 00:32:34.109 --> 00:32:37.910 fun to take a walk down memory lane. And so for 00:32:37.910 --> 00:32:40.369 this week's If Money Were No Object by the Week, 00:32:40.569 --> 00:32:42.829 I'm not going to be selfish, folks. No, I'm not 00:32:42.829 --> 00:32:45.069 going to be selfish. I'm going to do Goldberg 00:32:45.069 --> 00:32:47.970 a favor. I'm going to pay whatever it costs to... 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:50.700 Move his entire house, his entire house, his 00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:53.319 entire family to the country he loves the most, 00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:55.339 clearly, Saudi Arabia. I'm going to move his 00:32:55.339 --> 00:32:56.960 house. I'm going to move his family. He's going 00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:58.400 to have a great time. It's going to be an awesome 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.900 setup. I'm going to buy everyone a one -way ticket 00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:04.539 to there, and then I'm going to pay off the WWE 00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:07.839 doctors and make sure that this man never gets 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.460 cleared to wrestle again. That's how I'm going 00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:10.940 to spend my money because, you know, if money 00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:13.279 were no object, that's what I got. What do you 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.319 think? Who's with me on never seeing another 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:19.079 Goldberg match again? Some other quick wrestling 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:21.740 news. We're not going to take too much time to 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:24.720 talk about, but Liv Morgan. Liv Morgan got hurt 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:28.619 right away in her match with Kairi Sane on Raw. 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:31.140 Listen, if you're one of these clowns that's 00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:34.579 coming after Kairi Sane for injuring Liv Morgan, 00:33:34.779 --> 00:33:37.099 you clearly don't watch wrestling. This was about 00:33:37.099 --> 00:33:40.039 as basic of a takedown as you can get. And then 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:43.160 when Liv hit the mat with her arms out. Her shoulder 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.819 dislocated. So if you're coming after her, blaming 00:33:45.819 --> 00:33:49.039 her for injuring Liv Morgan, I get it. Liv's 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.380 awesome. She's great on TV. She's got a ton of 00:33:52.380 --> 00:33:54.940 momentum right now and doing really cool things. 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:58.200 But if you're blaming someone else for Liv's 00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:00.480 injury, this is just a freak thing. Get over 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:03.099 yourself. Let's move on, all right? Take it easy. 00:34:03.220 --> 00:34:06.039 We don't need to be going after her and sending 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:07.940 death threats and all kinds of stupid nonsense. 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:11.960 Let's be a little more upstanding when it comes 00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:14.360 to this kind of thing, guys. You know accidents 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:16.940 happen, and this was 10 seconds into the match, 00:34:17.019 --> 00:34:20.179 not even, and there's a leg takedown, and Liv 00:34:20.179 --> 00:34:22.300 falls forward and dislocates her elbow. Freak 00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:25.880 accident. Hopefully, she can come back and get 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:28.880 back in the ring ASAP. So nothing but the best 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.579 for Liv. That's a terrible thing. We'll see where 00:34:31.579 --> 00:34:34.480 they go from here. Obviously, the King of the 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.079 Ring tournament is happening right now, and we'll 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.780 dive into that later on. I have a lot of thoughts. 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.019 I'm thinking the way they're going with this 00:34:42.019 --> 00:34:45.679 in the finals, it's going to be Jay versus Sammy. 00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:47.860 With all this stuff happening backstage with 00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:50.139 Sammy, with Karrion Kross trying to get in his 00:34:50.139 --> 00:34:52.860 head, maybe this is where we see Sammy kind of 00:34:52.860 --> 00:34:56.780 turn the corner and become a bad guy in order 00:34:56.780 --> 00:34:59.710 to get another chance at a title. Who knows? 00:34:59.789 --> 00:35:01.849 Maybe they do something like that. Karrion is 00:35:01.849 --> 00:35:04.050 really pushing this agenda with Sammy for him 00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:08.630 to be a selfish type of wrestler, and maybe that's 00:35:08.630 --> 00:35:12.349 how they do it against his bromance with Jey 00:35:12.349 --> 00:35:16.829 Uso. So we shall see. So, Bills Mafia, you are 00:35:16.829 --> 00:35:19.989 on the clock. How are we feeling? Now, minicamp 00:35:19.989 --> 00:35:24.710 came and went, and shocking, James Cook showed 00:35:24.710 --> 00:35:27.369 up. Had his press conference, answered the questions, 00:35:27.489 --> 00:35:30.510 basically said, yeah, I like my money. So I wasn't 00:35:30.510 --> 00:35:31.969 going to miss it because I don't want to get 00:35:31.969 --> 00:35:36.150 fined. And everyone suddenly is singing Kumbaya. 00:35:36.250 --> 00:35:39.829 So this Adam Schefter nonsense about how he's 00:35:39.829 --> 00:35:42.469 distancing himself from the city and the team 00:35:42.469 --> 00:35:44.449 and blah, blah, blah. It's all a bunch of crap 00:35:44.449 --> 00:35:47.570 because literally 48 hours, 72 hours later, Cook's 00:35:47.570 --> 00:35:50.510 in town. He's in camp and he's practicing and 00:35:50.510 --> 00:35:54.230 everyone's just having a grand old time. So is 00:35:54.230 --> 00:35:57.559 this all? A whole lot of nothing. I don't think 00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:59.679 this is going to be a problem anymore. Now he 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:02.300 might keep talking about the fact that he wants 00:36:02.300 --> 00:36:05.019 a new deal, but he's not going to miss training 00:36:05.019 --> 00:36:07.599 camp. You never see a guy show up to mini camp 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.840 and then miss training camp. If he wasn't going 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:12.860 to show up to training camp, he would have passed 00:36:12.860 --> 00:36:14.980 on mini camp. It's just, you're not going to 00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:17.579 see it. So I think this story is kind of overblown. 00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:20.559 Yeah, he was vocal about wanting his money and 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:22.719 we talked about a really cool way to pay for 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:24.380 that. So if you haven't heard that, awesome. 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:26.960 Made up scenario. You can check out the prior 00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:29.579 pod. But I think he's here. I think he's here. 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.219 I think he's going to play. I don't think this 00:36:31.219 --> 00:36:34.539 is an issue. I don't know what Schefter was talking 00:36:34.539 --> 00:36:37.519 about. And sometimes I wish these talking heads 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.369 would just. Keep their mouth closed. But what 00:36:40.369 --> 00:36:42.710 else came out of minicamp? Anything worth talking 00:36:42.710 --> 00:36:45.030 about? Joey Bosa was on the side actually doing 00:36:45.030 --> 00:36:47.590 some drills. He wasn't just sitting there on 00:36:47.590 --> 00:36:51.210 an exercise bike. So maybe he is further along, 00:36:51.349 --> 00:36:53.510 progressing, ready to go. Hopefully he has a 00:36:53.510 --> 00:36:55.630 good training camp and he can hit the ground 00:36:55.630 --> 00:36:58.670 running. Keon Coleman. Keon, according to everything 00:36:58.670 --> 00:37:00.690 I saw, everything I heard, was making a lot of 00:37:00.690 --> 00:37:03.909 good plays, a lot of splash plays. And everyone's 00:37:03.909 --> 00:37:07.309 saying he's looking a little stronger, a little 00:37:07.309 --> 00:37:11.559 quicker. And he had a press conference and he 00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:14.960 took full accountability for his drop off in 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.099 his rookie year. And basically it was hilarious. 00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:19.860 If you ever get a chance to listen to Keon Coleman, 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.760 I encourage everybody to do it. I think this 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:24.440 guy is awesome. He is quickly becoming one of 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:27.159 my favorite players. I just love listening to 00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:29.920 him talk. His Niagara Falls commercials are fantastic. 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:33.219 If you haven't seen Keon Coleman in the Made 00:37:33.219 --> 00:37:37.159 of the Mist commercial, it's great. Pure comedic 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.019 gold. He does some funny stuff. I just think 00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:42.400 he's a cool dude. But anyway, he takes accountability, 00:37:42.780 --> 00:37:46.500 basically says that bleep trash. When he was 00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:48.780 asked about last year, he said that bleep trash. 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.599 And he says how he needs to be better in every 00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:55.340 facet of his game. So I give him credit. It doesn't 00:37:55.340 --> 00:37:58.380 look like he is passing the buck onto anyone 00:37:58.380 --> 00:38:00.739 else. He's taking responsibility and I expect 00:38:00.739 --> 00:38:03.809 big things from him. I think with another full 00:38:03.809 --> 00:38:06.309 training camp under his belt, another year connecting 00:38:06.309 --> 00:38:09.150 with Allen, I think he's going to be great. And 00:38:09.150 --> 00:38:11.769 I can't wait to see what he does. Reports are 00:38:11.769 --> 00:38:14.110 also out there that Kincaid, Dalton Kincaid, 00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:17.329 tight end number one, put on some bulk this year. 00:38:17.449 --> 00:38:20.449 Apparently he hit the weight room extremely hard 00:38:20.449 --> 00:38:22.690 in the offseason and he's looking great and he's 00:38:22.690 --> 00:38:24.690 making great plays in minicamp. He's another 00:38:24.690 --> 00:38:28.070 one that I have huge expectations for. High draft 00:38:28.070 --> 00:38:31.619 pick for us. A lot of people are pissed off because 00:38:31.619 --> 00:38:34.300 we spent such a high asset on this guy and he 00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:38.320 really hasn't proven to be fruitful for us yet. 00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:42.030 But I just. Would wish everyone take a deep breath. 00:38:42.210 --> 00:38:45.449 Sometimes these guys take a year or two to kind 00:38:45.449 --> 00:38:48.349 of have things in the game, calm down, slow down. 00:38:48.530 --> 00:38:50.750 I think these guys are going to be good. I do 00:38:50.750 --> 00:38:52.429 this all the time, right? I want these guys to 00:38:52.429 --> 00:38:54.789 be awesome. I want my team to be awesome. I expect 00:38:54.789 --> 00:38:56.889 things from these players, but we have to understand 00:38:56.889 --> 00:39:00.710 that nothing is linear. And sometimes it's going 00:39:00.710 --> 00:39:02.969 to take them a while to go from A to B to C to 00:39:02.969 --> 00:39:04.789 D and so on and so forth. Sometimes you're going 00:39:04.789 --> 00:39:06.969 to bounce all around and it might not be at the 00:39:06.969 --> 00:39:10.400 progress that we want. to see, at the rate we 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:12.460 want to see it. And that's okay. We just got 00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:14.280 to take a deep breath. I think these guys are 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.280 going to be good. I have high expectations for 00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:19.159 both Coleman and Kincaid. They're some of my 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.159 favorite players. But those mafia, I think we 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.599 have a problem. I think we have a problem. And 00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:26.820 I was looking at this team. I was looking at 00:39:26.820 --> 00:39:29.000 some of their contracts. I know a lot of mafia 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.110 members. Right when training camp starts to roll 00:39:32.110 --> 00:39:34.309 around, they start looking in their closets. 00:39:34.309 --> 00:39:36.210 They start looking at their merch. They start 00:39:36.210 --> 00:39:38.510 looking at their gear. And they're like, oh, 00:39:38.650 --> 00:39:42.130 I need a new jersey. I need to order that new 00:39:42.130 --> 00:39:44.590 jersey. I need to know who I'm rocking for some 00:39:44.590 --> 00:39:48.030 of the games this year, whether I'm in Highmark 00:39:48.030 --> 00:39:50.489 or whether I'm at my friend's house or at the 00:39:50.489 --> 00:39:52.570 bar, whatever. I'm watching the game. I got to 00:39:52.570 --> 00:39:55.170 rep my team. So I know a lot of people every 00:39:55.170 --> 00:39:57.690 year, they try to get a new jersey. But I'm looking 00:39:57.690 --> 00:40:00.769 at this team. And outside of Josh, right, because, 00:40:00.809 --> 00:40:02.909 you know, everyone should have a Josh Allen jersey. 00:40:03.030 --> 00:40:04.949 Everybody. Don't care what you say. Everyone 00:40:04.949 --> 00:40:06.309 should have a Josh Allen jersey. I don't care 00:40:06.309 --> 00:40:09.010 if you love the Seattle Seahawks. You should 00:40:09.010 --> 00:40:12.150 have a Josh Allen jersey. Just kidding. But you 00:40:12.150 --> 00:40:14.650 look at this roster. The question is, and this 00:40:14.650 --> 00:40:17.090 is the problem I'm having, is who is the next 00:40:17.090 --> 00:40:19.650 guy on the team that you're running out and buying 00:40:19.650 --> 00:40:22.170 their jersey for? Because here's the problem. 00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.619 And this happens time after time after time. 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:27.460 We go, we spend money on jerseys. And have you 00:40:27.460 --> 00:40:29.239 heard of the jersey curse? Because it's real, 00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:32.000 folks. It's real. People buy and spend a ton 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.559 of money on these jerseys and bad things happen 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:38.579 to your suddenly new favorite player. And the 00:40:38.579 --> 00:40:40.880 guy gets hurt or the guy gets traded or the guy 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:43.800 is straight trash and your jersey is essentially 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.679 worthless. I have a lot of worthless jerseys 00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.920 in my closet from various sports. The one most 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.929 recently. Stefan Diggs was super happy to get 00:40:52.929 --> 00:40:55.829 that jersey. And now I'm like, why the hell did 00:40:55.829 --> 00:41:00.230 I even get this? And my son has a Stefan Diggs 00:41:00.230 --> 00:41:02.510 jersey. So there's two in the same household, 00:41:02.670 --> 00:41:05.369 both with worthless jerseys at this point. So 00:41:05.369 --> 00:41:07.130 if you're looking to invest, I'm looking at this 00:41:07.130 --> 00:41:09.929 team and I'm like, and what? What sparked this 00:41:09.929 --> 00:41:13.489 interest for me is Cook shows up to minicamp 00:41:13.489 --> 00:41:16.610 and now his jersey reads Cook the third on the 00:41:16.610 --> 00:41:18.809 back. So he went from Cook to Cook the third. 00:41:18.849 --> 00:41:20.849 And I'm like, dude, you already changed your 00:41:20.849 --> 00:41:23.010 number. Now you're adding the third to the back 00:41:23.010 --> 00:41:26.150 of your jersey. No more. We can't keep changing 00:41:26.150 --> 00:41:30.389 this. I would strongly advise you all not to 00:41:30.389 --> 00:41:33.090 invest in a James Cook jersey because maybe this 00:41:33.090 --> 00:41:36.230 is the last year he's on the team, but we shall 00:41:36.230 --> 00:41:40.210 see. Who are you investing in, in a jersey? It's 00:41:40.210 --> 00:41:43.030 kind of tough. If you look down the list of signed 00:41:43.030 --> 00:41:45.269 bills, I'm just going through these names and 00:41:45.269 --> 00:41:47.869 I'm like, would I buy a jersey of this guy? Obviously, 00:41:47.929 --> 00:41:50.170 we're gonna take Josh Allen off the table. Then 00:41:50.170 --> 00:41:52.869 you get to Greg Russo. Greg Russo's got like 00:41:52.869 --> 00:41:55.230 four years left on his deal. Will he buy a Greg 00:41:55.230 --> 00:41:57.809 Russo jersey? Maybe, eh, he's all right. Spencer 00:41:57.809 --> 00:42:00.409 Brown, anyone? I don't know. Christian Benford, 00:42:00.469 --> 00:42:03.090 I know he just signed an extension. Eh, maybe, 00:42:03.250 --> 00:42:06.230 okay. Ed Oliver, I know he signed a massive deal. 00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:11.800 Ed Oliver's deal is expired at the end of 2027. 00:42:12.420 --> 00:42:14.960 He's got two years left on his deal, Deion Dawkins. 00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:18.119 Now, when I'm considering whose jersey am I going 00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:21.360 to get, a couple things. Significance on the 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.659 team. How long have they been with the team? 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:26.420 How long do I expect them to continue to be with 00:42:26.420 --> 00:42:28.760 the team? And where do they rank in the history 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:32.099 of the Bills as far as... their value to the 00:42:32.099 --> 00:42:34.320 franchise Deion Dawkins as far as I'm concerned 00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:36.320 he's a future guy that's going up on the wall 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:38.699 so this might be the first one I'm looking at 00:42:38.699 --> 00:42:41.139 I know a lot of you are like well he's a left 00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:43.079 tackle why would I want a jersey of a left tackle 00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:45.619 well Deion Dawkins is awesome he's one of the 00:42:45.619 --> 00:42:48.440 best left tackles in the game he's been great 00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:51.960 and I would love to see Deion retire a bill so 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.619 This is the first one I'm looking at. Now, next, 00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:58.320 Shakir. Shakir just signed a massive extension. 00:42:58.500 --> 00:43:00.440 He's on the team for at least four more years 00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.260 until 2029. Not a bad choice. Not a bad choice. 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:06.780 Let's keep going. Terrell Bernard, anyone? He's 00:43:06.780 --> 00:43:08.880 also on the team for the next four years until 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.760 29. Not a bad choice. Dawson Knox, no thank you. 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.940 And then we get into some of the new free agents. 00:43:15.019 --> 00:43:18.000 Josh Palmer, Joey Bosa. Anyone going out and 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.960 buying a Joey Bosa jersey? Anyone? Elijah Moore? 00:43:21.309 --> 00:43:23.550 Anyone buying a Elijah Moore jersey? I really 00:43:23.550 --> 00:43:25.590 hope not. So yeah, we're in a tough spot, Bills 00:43:25.590 --> 00:43:29.449 Mafia. I don't know what jersey to get. I'm kind 00:43:29.449 --> 00:43:33.050 of leaning towards Deion, but I'm torn. I'm in 00:43:33.050 --> 00:43:36.769 this weird positions, either Deion, Keon Coleman, 00:43:37.030 --> 00:43:40.409 or Kincaid. But this is a make or break year 00:43:40.409 --> 00:43:42.750 for Kincaid as far as I think getting his jersey. 00:43:42.849 --> 00:43:44.789 I was really leaning towards getting it last 00:43:44.789 --> 00:43:47.139 year. And then he kind of had a crap season. 00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:49.219 And now this is like the make or break year. 00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.179 If he does great, I can see them giving him an 00:43:51.179 --> 00:43:55.539 extension. If he does poorly, then who knows 00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:57.139 what's going to happen. But he's signed through 00:43:57.139 --> 00:43:59.980 2027. So the way I look at it, if you're on the 00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:02.300 fence about getting these guys jerseys and they 00:44:02.300 --> 00:44:05.380 have two years or less of time left on their 00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:08.829 deal. I would say, hey, this is a red flag. Unless 00:44:08.829 --> 00:44:11.630 they're, like I said, an all -timer and they're 00:44:11.630 --> 00:44:13.369 getting towards the end of their career and they're 00:44:13.369 --> 00:44:14.769 about to retire and you know they're going to 00:44:14.769 --> 00:44:18.190 retire a bill, I would avoid the plague. If you 00:44:18.190 --> 00:44:19.829 know they're going to be on the team for two 00:44:19.829 --> 00:44:22.710 years or less, I would say that's a hard pass. 00:44:22.909 --> 00:44:26.849 So I'm going to put Kincaid in the hold pile, 00:44:27.050 --> 00:44:30.190 in the hold pile, which brings me back to Dion. 00:44:30.809 --> 00:44:32.550 And it brings me back to Keon Coleman. But the 00:44:32.550 --> 00:44:35.389 problem with Coleman, again, his deal is up in 00:44:35.389 --> 00:44:39.929 2027. So we're in this weird window where I don't 00:44:39.929 --> 00:44:42.309 really have an issue with it. But actually, now 00:44:42.309 --> 00:44:45.769 that I'm looking at it, Kincaid is signed through 00:44:45.769 --> 00:44:49.429 the 2027 season. So we still have a few years 00:44:49.429 --> 00:44:51.829 left on his deal and a few years left on Keon 00:44:51.829 --> 00:44:54.449 Coleman's deal. So that would be the three that 00:44:54.449 --> 00:44:57.869 I'd be looking at. Keon, Kincaid. But ultimately, 00:44:58.010 --> 00:45:00.159 if I had to pick. I'm going to go with Deion 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:03.340 because you can't lose. I don't think you can 00:45:03.340 --> 00:45:07.300 lose with Deion or I do have a Thurman jersey, 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.300 obviously, and a Jim Kelly jersey. Maybe you 00:45:10.300 --> 00:45:12.619 go back to the 90s teams and you pick like a 00:45:12.619 --> 00:45:14.880 Bruce Smith or somebody like that that you really 00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:17.039 can't go wrong with. But I always like to see 00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:20.599 when... When we show up for that opener, I love 00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:22.780 to see the jerseys. People are rocking. It's 00:45:22.780 --> 00:45:25.280 a ton of fun. It's awesome. But I think there's 00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:28.159 a way to avoid this whole mess. I think what 00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:31.659 we should do, and I think what these jersey companies, 00:45:31.980 --> 00:45:34.360 whether they're Reebok or whoever the companies 00:45:34.360 --> 00:45:36.579 are now, Nike, I don't know, Fanatics, wherever 00:45:36.579 --> 00:45:39.260 the hell you buy your jerseys, it's crazy. They 00:45:39.260 --> 00:45:41.539 should offer jersey insurance. You know, it's 00:45:41.539 --> 00:45:43.920 like... You buy concert tickets or you buy plane 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:45.880 tickets or whatever the case may be, trip insurance 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:48.579 or concert insurance if something happens and 00:45:48.579 --> 00:45:50.380 you can't make it. I think they should offer 00:45:50.380 --> 00:45:52.519 jersey insurance. And then if you're in this 00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:56.409 crazy window where you're spending. $150, $200 00:45:56.409 --> 00:45:58.789 on a jersey, and they say, hey, would you like 00:45:58.789 --> 00:46:00.530 to buy jersey insurance for the low, low price 00:46:00.530 --> 00:46:03.710 of, I don't know, $24 .99? Yeah, slap that thing 00:46:03.710 --> 00:46:05.730 on there. That way, if my guy's traded, if he 00:46:05.730 --> 00:46:08.289 sucks, if he's a Kyrie Elam situation all over 00:46:08.289 --> 00:46:10.510 again, and I've already invested all this time 00:46:10.510 --> 00:46:13.119 and money into paying for this stuff, yeah. I 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:15.099 would like to buy Jersey insurance. That way 00:46:15.099 --> 00:46:17.679 I can trade this piece of trash in and get me 00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:20.880 something else, or we can send it back and they 00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.079 can swap the name or the number or whatever the 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:25.079 case may be. I think that'd be a great idea. 00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.519 So Goodell, I'm back in your office and I am 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:32.059 pitching Jersey insurance for all the NFL fans. 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:34.260 I know you will never do this because you love 00:46:34.260 --> 00:46:36.960 your money too much, but shame on you that you 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:39.300 never came up with this. It's a great idea. I 00:46:39.300 --> 00:46:41.400 think every team should do it in every sport. 00:46:42.010 --> 00:46:44.929 It would be huge, huge business. There it is, 00:46:44.989 --> 00:46:48.409 Jersey Insurance. So make it happen. Cardboard 00:46:48.409 --> 00:46:51.130 Enthusiast, how are we feeling? Fanatics Fest 00:46:51.130 --> 00:46:54.510 is kicking off as we speak. I'm seeing videos 00:46:54.510 --> 00:46:57.309 from the floor. The place looks massive. It looks 00:46:57.309 --> 00:46:59.570 intense. There's people everywhere. It looks 00:46:59.570 --> 00:47:02.250 like a hell of a lot of fun. I'm super jealous. 00:47:02.389 --> 00:47:04.769 I wish I could be there. We talked about it last 00:47:04.769 --> 00:47:07.639 week, how expensive things are, but... It still 00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:10.679 looks like a ton of fun. And I did get to see 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:13.559 a video of my boy getting escorted with all his 00:47:13.559 --> 00:47:16.760 security cronies. Good old Tom Brady walking 00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:19.960 through Fanatics Fest and the crowd going somewhat 00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:23.059 mild for him. But I'm like, this guy, he just 00:47:23.059 --> 00:47:25.079 can't stay out of the spotlight. Good old Tom 00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:27.480 Brady at Fanatics Fest. But of course, as we 00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:29.599 talked about last week, he doesn't want to sign. 00:47:29.699 --> 00:47:32.440 So I can't spend all my money and get him to 00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:36.400 inscribe a nice photo. saying that I'm the real 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:38.940 TB, but I digress. A couple of things in the 00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:41.980 card market I want to hit on. If you follow the 00:47:41.980 --> 00:47:45.440 Tops Now stuff, there was a card in 2024. It 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:49.599 was a Steph Curry one of one gold auto from the 00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.199 gold medal Olympic game. It was sent to PSA. 00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:55.539 It was given a 10 out of 10 grade and this card 00:47:55.539 --> 00:48:02.369 sold at auction. Guess how much? 518. $518 ,500. 00:48:03.090 --> 00:48:06.489 $518 ,500 is what this card sold for. One card. 00:48:06.909 --> 00:48:10.550 It's crazy. A Tops Now auto gold medal Olympic 00:48:10.550 --> 00:48:13.550 game. One of ones, Steph Curry. How we feel about 00:48:13.550 --> 00:48:17.429 that? 518. Over half a mil. That's crazy. Crazy. 00:48:17.570 --> 00:48:20.690 And they still haven't uncovered the triple auto 00:48:20.690 --> 00:48:25.199 of James Durant, I believe, and Curry card. No 00:48:25.199 --> 00:48:27.460 one's come forward with that. That card, if this 00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:31.280 card went for 518, how much is that craziness 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:35.480 going for? 750? A million? I can't wait to see 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:39.400 the chaos of what that card fetches. But what 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:41.400 I want to end the show with talking about is 00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:44.320 the release of Topps Marvel Chrome. We talked 00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:46.780 about it last week. Super excited that this product 00:48:46.780 --> 00:48:49.679 came out. I got to be honest with you guys. This 00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:52.300 product hit the shelves. I'm watching breaks. 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:55.380 I'm looking at these cards. These cards are fire. 00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:59.239 We have this FOMO thing going on, this fear of 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.820 missing out. Well, I missed out on this because 00:49:01.820 --> 00:49:05.000 I am very disappointed after seeing these cards. 00:49:05.099 --> 00:49:08.539 And I'm not a huge comic book guy, but these 00:49:08.539 --> 00:49:11.440 cards look great. They look great. Even the base 00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.789 cards, the base chromes. They are nice. I saw 00:49:14.789 --> 00:49:17.289 one of the Silver Samurai. The colors look great. 00:49:17.369 --> 00:49:20.590 The inserts, the inserts look ridiculous. They 00:49:20.590 --> 00:49:23.070 have these anniversary cards. They look absolutely 00:49:23.070 --> 00:49:26.030 fantastic. I love the icons inserts that they 00:49:26.030 --> 00:49:29.789 have. I saw a couple of Thor and different characters, 00:49:30.329 --> 00:49:33.849 but I need to talk about this one crazy insert 00:49:33.849 --> 00:49:37.710 that is going for. obscene amounts of money. 00:49:37.789 --> 00:49:40.409 Have you all seen these die -cut Wolverine cards? 00:49:40.690 --> 00:49:42.989 So what they do is they take a regular Marvel 00:49:42.989 --> 00:49:46.030 character, let's say it's, who knows, it's Thanos, 00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:50.250 right? And it's the Wolverine die -cut. So it 00:49:50.250 --> 00:49:53.210 looks like Wolverine's claws have completely 00:49:53.210 --> 00:49:55.849 gone through the card. You hold this card up, 00:49:55.929 --> 00:49:59.360 you can see through it. The claw marks are etched 00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:02.039 into the card. It looks fan -freaking -tastic. 00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:04.440 This is one of the coolest inserts, coolest designs 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:06.960 I've ever seen. And these cards are going for 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:10.260 crazy, crazy amounts of money already on the 00:50:10.260 --> 00:50:13.880 secondary market. They look sick. Marvel and 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:17.409 Topps, hats off to you all. But you can't get 00:50:17.409 --> 00:50:19.929 this product now. A blaster box is going for 00:50:19.929 --> 00:50:25.150 $70, $60, $70. And you're only getting 28 cards. 00:50:25.250 --> 00:50:28.429 28 cards in a blaster box for $60 to $70. Are 00:50:28.429 --> 00:50:31.610 we crazy? Are we crazy? We got to chill with 00:50:31.610 --> 00:50:34.030 this stuff. And then hobby boxes. Hobby boxes 00:50:34.030 --> 00:50:37.429 are reselling on secondary markets in upwards 00:50:37.429 --> 00:50:42.110 of $500, as high as $599 for a hobby box. Guys, 00:50:42.170 --> 00:50:45.530 a hobby box. I love these cards, but there ain't 00:50:45.530 --> 00:50:49.389 no way in hell that I'm paying five, $600 for 00:50:49.389 --> 00:50:51.530 a hobby box of these cards. As cool as I think 00:50:51.530 --> 00:50:54.309 they are, which they are fire. This is insane. 00:50:54.489 --> 00:50:56.750 I don't know how we ended up here. Obviously 00:50:56.750 --> 00:50:59.409 supply and demand, yada, yada. But what are we 00:50:59.409 --> 00:51:03.230 doing that these prices are so drastically high? 00:51:03.610 --> 00:51:05.710 Hopefully they come down and people can actually. 00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:08.639 not take out a second mortgage to get their hands 00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:10.380 on some of these because I love them. I would 00:51:10.380 --> 00:51:13.780 love to get a couple. I have ordered a few singles 00:51:13.780 --> 00:51:17.679 on eBay. I think I've spent $4 to get two carts, 00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:20.980 which is a much better rate than going the blaster 00:51:20.980 --> 00:51:23.059 or hobby box route. I would love to open some 00:51:23.059 --> 00:51:25.639 packs of these. These look great, but the prices 00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:28.380 are not justified. We shall see. Hopefully things 00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:30.849 kind of settle down a little, but... Topps Inception 00:51:30.849 --> 00:51:33.010 already came out this week. It came out on Wednesday. 00:51:33.170 --> 00:51:35.550 Some of the cards are fire, but again, seven 00:51:35.550 --> 00:51:38.650 cards in a hobby box and you're spending a couple 00:51:38.650 --> 00:51:41.869 hundred bucks on these. And again, the secondary 00:51:41.869 --> 00:51:44.070 markets have these through the roof, but they 00:51:44.070 --> 00:51:47.349 look great. So some really big releases over 00:51:47.349 --> 00:51:50.289 the last week. Things are obviously going really, 00:51:50.409 --> 00:51:51.769 really well. But I think that's going to wrap 00:51:51.769 --> 00:51:54.630 it up for this episode. Can't thank you all enough 00:51:54.630 --> 00:51:57.010 for listening. If you've enjoyed this episode 00:51:57.010 --> 00:51:59.650 or any episode of the 3Ts podcast up to this 00:51:59.650 --> 00:52:01.929 point, please, please, please help a brother 00:52:01.929 --> 00:52:04.730 out. Do me a favor. Share this podcast with someone 00:52:04.730 --> 00:52:06.789 you know, someone that you know loves wrestling 00:52:06.789 --> 00:52:10.329 or card collecting or, of course, the Bills, 00:52:10.389 --> 00:52:12.610 my favorite team, greatest team on the planet. 00:52:13.150 --> 00:52:14.829 Thank you so much. It doesn't matter who you 00:52:14.829 --> 00:52:17.210 share it with. Just help me to grow this podcast 00:52:17.210 --> 00:52:20.170 one episode at a time. 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