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I noticed they very clearly termed it an "intimate" event.

Fuck. Edit: YEAH! Needed a LB with 0 to finish it.

Over the last 20 seasons, teams in college football in possession of the ball in the final 10 seconds of regulation were 1,046-1. And then... The punchline is that they determined there was a second remaining on the clock so Vandy kicked the extra point to win by 4, having been a 3.5 point favourite. All time bad beat for those holding NC State tickets.

I've posted it a couple of times on here over the quarter century we've been at this but - BritWres feds, stick someone in a shiny silver mask and cape, have him come out to that music, announce from P.O. Box 2240 in Middlesex and call him "The Silver Vision". You can have that one for free. (Actually might send this to Evil Uno if Mystery Wrestling come back in February).

Ah ok - so the guys they've tagged up are rivals?

Maybe more of a discussion for the lucha thread than here, but... how are they explaining the motivations of the 4-way tag leading into the apuestas main event? It was always my perception that in lucha losing your mask/hair was close to a fate worse than death - is being in the main event of this show presented as prestigious (or lucrative?) enough to risk it? My Spanish is good enough to understand what they're going for with "final suicida" but it's all a bit Feast or Fired isn't it?

Lovely stuff. Had a similar instance a few weeks ago where we arrived at a car park in the Peak District where the smallest increment is "Up to 4 hours" and found someone had put a ticket purchased about 45mins previously back into the slot on the machine, which covered us nicely. It was either that or no-one had arrived in the last 45mins and the last people who did forgot to take the ticket out.

BBC Sport article on it suggesting they've shifted (distributed might be a better term...) 60k tickets for it, which sounds alright. Honestly if there were still a reliable place I could watch (all of) Bama/FSU in London after, I think I'd be getting the train in the morning...

Wonder if they're thinking there might be people out there who had bought AEW tickets but would stick them on resale in favour of going to the WWE show (because Punk in Chicago), those tickets won't sell (because Punk in Chicago) leaving AEW with swathes of empty seats they can't shuffle people to cover? Or is that all a bit 3D chess?

I hadn't heard of him before this morning but since then I've remembered this fella:

And therein lies the beauty of CFB... even when it's bad it's good! (Which is making me think maybe I should go to Wembley on Saturday...)

If they lose again Saturday (which they probably won't, but...) they might be paying you to go to Bobby Dodd the rest of the year! To avoid the risk of the double-post, going early with my Disney+ game of the week (that's not on in the middle of the night) recommendation of #16 SMU @ #23 Louisville (8:30pm). More than just being a ranked-on-ranked match-up, it should be a really fun quarterback duel (the current #1 vs current #4 nationally in yards per attempt) and a game that could be an early eliminator in the race for the ACC championship. (Yes that's SMU from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex among the favourites to win the Atlantic Coast Conference - a conference that now includes 2 teams from California. Ah, college football in 2026...)

I'll give my usual advice - if you happen to be paying for Spotify or some other premium music service, ditch that for YouTube Premium. Ad-free YouTube plus pretty much everything you'd want on YouTube Music plus being able to have the audio of that video some put up of a rare live performance from that German TV show in 1967 in your music library.

The entrance/music definitely did plenty of heavy lifting for him - which makes it a good shout for here. He also benefited from existing in that pre-AEW/peak "black and gold" window of having been a name in TNA (or Japan or RoH) who turned up in the crowd on a NXT Takeover then had a solid run there. That was basically a magic formula for getting a thunderous reception on main roster debut.

That'd be Arizona State and Kansas but the sentiment is appreciated 😁 Been expecting that for a little while - this whole thing has turned slightly farcical. Whilst there is definitely growing interest in the college game in the UK (and God knows I'm trying with you fuckers 😆) it's not been marketed well and the pricing was iffy - I've not actually done the comparison myself but understand the get-in price (£56) was higher than for the NFL games. If they'd done a load of £20 tickets you might have sold a load more on curiosity. They've closed the upper tier this week meaning a load of people who did buy tickets (including fans travelling from the States) who'd chosen upper tier seats around the 50 (a pretty damn good place to watch a football game) are now in the bottom tier at one endzone and they're calling it an upgrade... I think they really wanted to put the game in Week 0 too (where the overseas games usually sit) but couldn't because Wembley was unavailable (some wrestling show IIRC...) In and of itself it's not a terrible match-up to have over here - it's a conference game and will likely be much less lopsided than some of the Dublin games have been. When it was first announced I was gung ho about going, but actually don't think I'm going to bother (even though my wife had Blue Light as do 2 of the 3 guys I'd discussed possibly going with) - mostly because the bar in Westminster I'd have wanted to shoot over to afterwards to watch the Bama game seems to have changed hands and isn't doing the CFB until 5am thing anymore, which is a shame. Finally - if you stayed up for OSU & Texas, you're welcome. If you watched Bama & Kentucky, I hope you turned on at half time.