March 9, 201510 yr comment_5657777 Full? With the Sherri speech? In all its rambling glory! Still a riotous, fascinating, weirdly touching classic. And to top it off, she punctuates it with variations on "You paid your money, you got your ticket, now shut up and listen to what we have to say!" They should play that clip between every inductee at every ceremony. On a somewhat related note, it's odd but not surprising that quite a few of the male workers in these fairly-recent HOF crowds are still around, but literally none of the women.
March 10, 201510 yr comment_5657791 I just realized I haven't watched a whole lot of these. Booker T's speech and induction from Stevie Ray (feel stupid for saying this here, but I never would have guessed they were actual brothers) was cool to watch in the context of just having seen that 24/7 special. I'm on 2012 now, and JBL's induction of Ron Simmons was actually thrilling to watch. I wish I could say the same thing of his broadcasting.
March 10, 201510 yr comment_5657823 I just upgraded to iPhone 6 and the network won't play anything on it. Anyone else have this going on?
March 11, 201510 yr comment_5658008 Here's an odd one for you, I tried watching it on my Sony BDP-S5100, and next thing I knew all the video apps gone. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, everything, gone.
March 11, 201510 yr comment_5658009 I know on my Roku streaming stick I wasn't getting any new content until I checked for an update to the system software, I guess it was blocking the app from updating until that was done.
March 11, 201510 yr comment_5658022 I'm a dope. I wasn't logged in on my new phone. I was thinking that might be the problem when we were talking about it. I was like Johnny can't be that unsound with tech.
March 11, 201510 yr comment_5658053 Just noticed they skipped Raw #178 (9/30/96) on the recent batch of uploads. Looking at the results there doesn't seem to be any content related reasons why they would bypass it.
March 11, 201510 yr comment_5658059 There rarely seems to be any rhyme or reason to them skipping episodes in their weekly TV section. Do they not know how much that pisses off the completist portion of their audience? Especially when we know they HAVE the footage.
March 11, 201510 yr comment_5658062 Seems like the Network is amazingly poorly put together. Uploading RAW episodes *in order* doesn't seem like a huge task.
March 12, 201510 yr comment_5658166 I just realized I haven't watched a whole lot of these. Booker T's speech and induction from Stevie Ray (feel stupid for saying this here, but I never would have guessed they were actual brothers) was cool to watch in the context of just having seen that 24/7 special. I'm on 2012 now, and JBL's induction of Ron Simmons was actually thrilling to watch. I wish I could say the same thing of his broadcasting. I legit thought that Stevie Ray and Booker T were not brothers either until I saw the 24 show on Booker T. I almost wished they put out a DVD set of him. Doesn't have to be the monster 3 DVD set but filling up 2 DVDs of his Global, WCW and WWE stuff wouldn't be hard task.
March 13, 201510 yr comment_5658257 Is Wrestlemania 1 & 2 edited? Reason I ask is the run time for Wrestlemania 1 is stated as 136 mins.
March 13, 201510 yr comment_5658271 Is Wrestlemania 1 & 2 edited? Reason I ask is the run time for Wrestlemania 1 is stated as 136 mins. Watch it and find out? You can easily look up the results and see what is missing.
March 14, 201510 yr comment_5658428 Every version I've seen has been around that time. I think all the matches are full but the stuff between has been clipped. That or the WWF wasn't thinking about three-hour broadcast cards back then?
March 14, 201510 yr comment_5658461 It makes sense that they would have had shorter cards in the closed circuit days before PPV since, if I'm not mistaken, a lot of closed circuit locations were theaters and people don't really expect to sit in the theater for more than 2 hours.
March 14, 201510 yr comment_5658466 It makes sense that they would have had shorter cards in the closed circuit days before PPV since, if I'm not mistaken, a lot of closed circuit locations were theaters and people don't really expect to sit in the theater for more than 2 hours. They haven't seen a modern movie then, since almost nothing is under 2 hours nowadays!
March 14, 201510 yr comment_5658508 It was probably just cheaper to keep it short. Plus it was new. And it was wrestling. American cinema go-ers had no problems sitting thru longer fare in the 70's and 80's.
March 15, 201510 yr comment_5658689 Question for anyone who uses this via Apple TV, can you skip through chapters on the On Demand content?
March 15, 201510 yr comment_5658694 No chapters on Apple TV... I mostly watch from Sony Bravia due to that. Catching up today on Countdown as I hadn't watched the last three or four. Talking about International Superstars, they ask Vince McMahon where is parts unknown, and he says with a completely straight face "It's in between Venus and Uranus... maybe closer to Uranus". That made me laugh.
March 16, 201510 yr comment_5658709 Yes and no. Use the down arrow and chapter lines will appear and you can use the side-to-side buttons on the remote to jump along as necessary. WWE's chapters aren't there, but standard Apple chapters are, so it's not perfect, but it's functional.
March 16, 201510 yr comment_5658718 No way will I have time to see all the HOFs before the end of March, so I hope they don't take them down once we hit April.
March 16, 201510 yr comment_5658724 I think the length of shows in the 80s was determined more by the capacity of VHS tape than anything else. Most of the JCP shows that went three hours got butchered to hell on home video, perhaps Vince was just thinking ahead since I'm sure that was a big revenue stream at the time.
March 16, 201510 yr comment_5658726 Mania I was basically a typical MSG card with celebrities added. That's how long MSG cards went. It's no more complex than that
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