![]() It worked great for a really long time.īut these are not those times. With all due respect to the men who founded NASCAR and the men who went on to manage it in those founders' wakes, such endings to such meetings was pretty much their modus operandi. As in taking meetings, writing stuff down, and leaving those discussions with the pads of paper still under their arms and not immediately thrown into the recycling bin as soon as their guests have left the room. There's a movement afoot in the motorsports world, an alteration of action that is too important for us to ignore. So why in the world would I be telling you this story on the NASCAR page? Because grandma has slapped NASCAR on the leg. At least until grandma would come in, slap him on the leg, and tell him to crank them back up and stop ignoring me. How was he snoozing with me yapping and the Millennium Falcon zapping? He'd turned his hearing aids down. Sometimes I'd be going on and on and then I'd ask a question and get no answer, only to look over to see that my grandfather had been asleep in his chair for the last half-hour. During the summers I would spend a good bit of time at my grandparents' house, and looking back, I drove them crazy with all my yammering and the racket coming from video games and other noisy toys. It was exactly what it looked like a scripted, live execution on national television.When I was a kid, I talked a lot. The best part of this segment is commentator Michael Cole, who probably realized how bad this all looked and tried to save the segment by yelling loudly about "symbolism." Sorry Cole there was nothing symbolic about this. Big Boss Man even kicked his legs and did the "dance of death" before finally going limp. But this took place in the center of the ring. Most of the time when there is a "murder" moment in WWE, the camera pans away or doesn't show the moment of contact so that WWE can use a stunt double, dummy, or editing trickery to make it look real. He cinched it around Boss Man's neck, and signaled for Paul Bearer to raise the cell. ![]() In 1999, The Undertaker was in full Satan worship mode as the head of the Ministry of Darkness, and he fought the Big Boss Man in a massive steel cell at WrestleMania XV.Īt the conclusion of the match (Undertaker scored a non-competitive victory), the Brood-Edge, Christian, and Gangrel-descended from the ceiling and dropped a noose to Undertaker. By any metric or standard, this segment was in incredibly poor taste. ![]()
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