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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 25, 2019 17:04:37 GMT -5
I guess this means they probably won't come back anytime soon
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Post by clodhopper on Feb 25, 2019 17:07:24 GMT -5
Petty shit like this reflects worse on the WWE than on Lafayette.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 25, 2019 17:07:38 GMT -5
No, seriously, f*** them for this.
The crowd was bad, absolutely, but this sets all kinds of bad precedences.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 25, 2019 17:11:49 GMT -5
That crowd f***ing deserves all the shit it gets
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 17:12:45 GMT -5
I would say this is low even for them but I remember what company this is.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Feb 25, 2019 17:14:36 GMT -5
Gross, WWE.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 17:14:50 GMT -5
It wasn't a very good (maybe not even a good) crowd but they weren't bad enough to deserve this. They at least made noise for Braun, Finn, Ricochet and Becky during the beginning of the Ronda/Ruby match. Go to your room, WWE.
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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Feb 25, 2019 17:15:30 GMT -5
Yeah this isn't something I would recommend actually doing.
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Post by Chiral on Feb 25, 2019 17:16:18 GMT -5
This is some like high school business class level examples of things a company shouldn't do.
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Post by lionheart21 on Feb 25, 2019 17:18:13 GMT -5
We gave that crowd a lot of shit (and rightfully so), but we can do that because we're the fans. The company shouldn't be making acknowledgements like that, it's bad business.
One positive that I can think of, though, is that at least Vince knows that it wasn't because of the NXT talent that the crowd was dead.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Feb 25, 2019 17:18:13 GMT -5
That is hilarious that they made this.
Although using the WWE logic that people complaining should "shut up and enjoy it", maybe the crowd just took the shut up part too literally.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 17:18:14 GMT -5
As soon as McAfee joined them, I knew he'd become a lame-ass stooge.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 17:21:06 GMT -5
Lol THIS is how they’re choosing to use Pat McAfee?! Yikes.
It was a bad crowd, yes, but all this does is call attention to it. If they’re really “revolutionizing the very business of entertainment” then why do they care? And maybe the crowd was enjoying the show, but just wasn’t loud? Not cool to throw your paying fans under the bus like that in my opinion.
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Post by ayumidah on Feb 25, 2019 17:22:08 GMT -5
MacAfee was obnoxious enough without WWE using him for these kinds of purposes.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Feb 25, 2019 17:23:06 GMT -5
"That crowd was terrible."
"Paint my fence!"
"Make me.'
"You give me back that crowd!"
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Post by ANuclearError on Feb 25, 2019 17:23:25 GMT -5
Whoever greenlit this needs a metaphorical slap, absolute stupid thing for any company to do. Be goddamn professional, you're meant to minimise the audience's own mudslinging, not join in.
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Post by Error on Feb 25, 2019 17:25:51 GMT -5
I got a chuckle out of it.
Anyway, I'm always surprised they go back to Lafayette since it is one of those towns they usually think is too small to mention on air.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 17:27:31 GMT -5
Two things. First thing, that dude Pat knows how to use a mic. He's going to go far with his speaking.
Second thing, the company shaming that crowd is sooooooooooooo f***ed up. We're fans like them, we can shame them because they're like us, we've been in those spots. They're our siblings. The company though? After they gave you money? f***. First it was the "they're chanting "Let's Go Sheamus!"" thing they tried to do. Then it was them literally editing chants out of the broadcast and now it's them full on insulting the crowd.
f***ing stupid man. Yall know better. They could have easily spun this around and say the crowd was so drained from Elimination Chamber they didn't know how to contain themselves. It's so easy.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Feb 25, 2019 17:27:55 GMT -5
so it's the fans that are wrong again?
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Post by héad.casé on Feb 25, 2019 17:29:07 GMT -5
They were a bad crowd but in their defence WWE didn’t give them a lot to get excited about. Then McAfee goes on to say a crowd can make or break someone, but WWE don’t go with who they want anyway (with Becky being an exception as she is literally too over to be stopped, but lord they did try at first)
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