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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:01:57 GMT -5
...right now.
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:04:05 GMT -5
He's there with Jarrett, BTW. TNA ring in the background.
They're first talking about Pacman's list of arrests and accusations. Pacman says that he's only been arrested two times and that the strip club stuff never happened.
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Post by G2 on Aug 9, 2007 9:06:05 GMT -5
He's there with Jarrett, BTW. TNA ring in the background. They're first talking about Pacman's list of arrests and accusations. Pacman says that he's only been arrested two times and that the strip club stuff never happened. Pretending that something never actually happened? He's gonna fit well into wrestling!
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:06:08 GMT -5
Pacman says that he needs to find better friends. Says "I have never hit a stipper in the head."
Basically, more stuff about his recent troubles and whatnot.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 9:06:44 GMT -5
Bah gawd, King!!! That man set up a damn ring in his backyard!!!
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:07:45 GMT -5
Now he's talking about his charitable work, general pay back the community stuff. Football camps and whatnot.
Says he's in wrestling to stay out of the clubs, or something along those lines.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 9:08:04 GMT -5
Haha, Jarrett's laughing at all of Pacman's jokes!
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Post by Old School Heel mark4Morishima on Aug 9, 2007 9:08:39 GMT -5
The idea of all this hoopla is to expose sports fans to TNA. ESPN's demographic is probably technically the same one as TNA's.
But hold on a second!
Do sports fans watch wrestling? Do wrestling fans watch sports?
In my personal observation there seems to be a lot less overlap than you'd think.
Bad job, Dixie.
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:08:41 GMT -5
Why wrestling? "It's been something that I've always been a fan of."
Jeff first inquired about if Pacman wanted to wrestle.
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:09:48 GMT -5
Jarrett: "Wrestling's built on contraversies and conflicts."
Pluggin' Pacman on TNA.
Jarrett says we WILL see him wrestle.
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Post by Overly large testicles on Aug 9, 2007 9:11:24 GMT -5
Pacman is dumb as hell.
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:11:48 GMT -5
Jarrett: "We realize that football is his priority."
Pacman: "My teammates think this wrestling thing is a joke."
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:14:27 GMT -5
Now talking about Pacman on 1st and 10.
Skip thinks that Pacman's contract would prohibit him wrestling. Also thinks that the Tennessee Titans would possibly "root for Pacman to get hurt" in the ring.
Edit: Well, I wish that I would have used my 200th for something else.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 9:14:49 GMT -5
Jarrett's acted an awful lot like his dad (Jerry) here on ESPN. If that's what he's really like, I guess that's decent, because his dad was one of the smartest guys ever in the business (ask Vince or people in Turner).
Still, a terrible idea, since Pacman has no mic skills, but I'm still betting that he'll surprise in the ring. Plus, he's free to wrestle until June 2008, no matter what that clueless moron Skip Bayless has to say.
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Post by Sir Bill of Chainsawberg on Aug 9, 2007 9:16:12 GMT -5
Skip taking about history of NFL players turning to wrestling. He says more bad stuff about TNA, and that one of his appearances will compete against the opening NFL week and the NFL commissioner will not like that.
And that looks like the end of their Pacman-related coverage for now.
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Post by G2 on Aug 9, 2007 9:27:24 GMT -5
The idea of all this hoopla is to expose sports fans to TNA. ESPN's demographic is probably technically the same one as TNA's. But hold on a second! Do sports fans watch wrestling? Do wrestling fans watch sports? In my personal observation there seems to be a lot less overlap than you'd think. Bad job, Dixie. The key word was your personal observation. We don't know if Dixie Carter and the rest have looked into that overlap and see a potential market. Then again maybe this is just a desperation play. Guess we'll find out by the ratings once he's on TV.
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Post by Old School Heel mark4Morishima on Aug 9, 2007 9:38:31 GMT -5
The key word was your personal observation. We don't know if Dixie Carter and the rest have looked into that overlap and see a potential market. Then again maybe this is just a desperation play. I dunno, I've done a lot of market research so I could put the study together if I could be arsed to. Dixie's alleged specialty is marketing, so she should also be able to. Then again her alleged specialty is marketing and TNA marketing copy is abysmal, so there you go.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 9:42:10 GMT -5
Pacman won't help TNA, but that interview alone "with TNA Wrestling" simply written at the bottom of the screen for 10-15 minutes was far more total exposure by ESPN than all of their other World Series MVPs and NASCAR announcers combined.
Any other time TNA tries this, ESPN goes, "Brian Urlacher ran in and bodyslammed a guy during a pro wrestling match last night" while showing a four second clip and move on.
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Aug 9, 2007 9:50:51 GMT -5
damn i missed it.
but the thing is, even if his contract won't allow it, the Titans would have to actually challenge him. They may not give a damn as long as he's staying out of trouble and just let him go. and really, there is a chance he'll get hurt, but it's the same odds as on a football field.
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Post by Mr. Backlund on Aug 9, 2007 10:21:33 GMT -5
I missed this, but I do have Sirius Satelite radio and on the NFL Channel they've been mocking Pacman, TNA, and wrestling in general since this has been officially confirmed. They've confused TNA as another WWE brand and found out it wasn't and called it some "hick wrasslin company deep down in the South" and basically think it's a traveling circus side show, not anything serious.
I think the inherent issue is that the football fanbase, as a whole, is completely apathetic about Pacman Jones. He's done little of note on the field and been a rather large problem off of it. It seems to me that, outside of Tenessee and West Virginia, no one cares about him or really wants to go out of their way to see him.
If this was Mike Vick, TNA hit a goldmine, as Vick's ALWAYS been polarizing and is a huge name who has a lot of "heat" in the real world. Pacman, on the other hand, is a guy whose been in the league for only two years, has done nothing of consequence, and his name is only known because of a tacky nickname and his run ins with the law.
I may be wrong, but I don't see any football fans outside of a very select few turning this on out of curiousity and I see even fewer becoming permanent viewers. If anything, this seems to be turning people in the current fanbase away.
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