This video has been seen by about a billion people since it went up on Sunday and has probably been shared everywhere from WikiHow to your Geocities homepage, but we haven’t updated since Friday and don’t have any cromulent UPROXX network morning links, so here you go.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s one of the nicest videos uploaded over the holiday season, and way more enjoyable than watching a kid get a white iPhone and throw it across the room — an Alabama dad gets surprised with BCS National Title tickets for the Alabama/Notre Dame game in Miami on January 7. It’s a lot like last year when I surprised my dad with Cowboys tickets, except 1) I didn’t upload video of it, and 2) this guy won’t have to sit in the nosebleeds at Cowboy Stadium and watch Tony Romo get hurt five seconds into the game.

So, like the headline says, what’d you get for Christmas? Let’s get some holiday conversation going so we can pretend like it isn’t totally and completely over.

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Tonight on the WWE Raw open discussion thread, Brandon copies and pastes in the spoilers according to WWE.com:

Season’s beatings, WWE Universe: Santa’s sleigh can’t stop the longest-running episodic show in television history, so Monday brings us a very special Christmas Eve edition of Monday Night Raw. And someone — ahem, AJ Lee — has been very naughty indeed, corralling Big E Langston into her wild vendetta against John Cena while locking lips with (still) Mr. Money in the Bank himself, Dolph Ziggler. While AJ stirs the pot, The Shield continues to light the fuse of chaos within WWE, dishing out street justice with a vengeance following their banner victory at WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs. So with that in mind, here’s our five-point preview for a very merry Monday Night Raw.

Here’s our one-point preview: It’s Christmas eve and most of us will be busy spending time with family or creating magical snowmen or whatever, the show’s on tape and I’m tooootally not writing a Best And Worst Of Raw for a pre-taped Christmas show on Christmas day, but here’s an open thread anyway.

If you’re around, feel free to +1 the comments you like to keep the vibe going and we’ll pick back up with our normal posting schedule next week. Merry Christmas, everybody.

He can do that, right? He’s Santa. He should be able to do anything.

Last year I got all sentimental about Christmas and a commenter told me I had Down syndrome, so this year I’ll stick to the basis.

On behalf of myself and Burnsy (and anybody ranking higher than us on the UPROXX hierarchy, which is … pretty much everybody), I’d like to wish everybody who has bothered to check this site in the last year a happy series of holidays, a Merry Christmas, and a joyous whatever else. We’ll be back on Monday with a fake fighting open discussion thread, but our normal schedule won’t pick back up until Wednesday. Take this time to get the hell away from the Internet, because it’s all Mayan apocalypse jokes and gun control arguments anyway.

We love you dearly, and we’ll be back Wednesday morning with some jokes about sports jerks. Be safe, and be well.

CHRISTMAS STUFF FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT:

- NBA Christmas Day jerseys
- YouTube getting bent out of shape about the NBA’s Carol Of The Bells commercial
- The Boston Red Sox using Christmas Vacation to sell season tickets
- Andre Johnson bought a bunch of toys for kids
- WWE wrestlers singing Jingle Bells
- NBA stars singing Jingle Bells
- Japanese wrestlers singing Christmas carols
- NBA stars singing Christmas (and Hanukkah) carols
- Santa Dirk giving hilarious Christmas presents
- The gaudiest-ever college basketball Christmas lights display
- Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to an old lady about bowling balls
- Taco from ‘The League’ wrote the best Christmas song ever
- Christmas trick shots, kinda
- The 12 Days Of MMA Christmas, aka Brittney Palmer in Christmas panties
- Happy Holidays from the Charlotte Bobcats LadyCats

Well hello again, precious internet darlings! Just a few words before we dive into the column this week.

• I’m going to warn everyone here and now that there is a tl;dr soapbox diatribe buried in the report. I don’t plan on doing something this lengthy on the subject again, but I feel that With Leather has a wonderful community of intelligent readers, and if anyone can have an open and honest dialogue about things we should and should not accept when it comes to professional wrestling, it’s you.

• Last week’s column got an overwhelmingly positive response, and I can’t thank you guys enough for the comments and support. It means more than I can say, and I hope we can keep this going. I’m having a heck of a lot of fun writing about the most un-fun wrestling show on television, and you guys are a big part of that.

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This week on Impact, Kazarian and Christopher Daniels give us the best Christmas present we could ask for, Jeff Hardy makes some memories, and I give Taz the worst I promised myself I would never take the time to write. Round 2, FIGHT! Doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo doo doo doo!

The only upside to a Mayan apocalypse going down at some point today would be the end of whoever keeps making athletes sing sports-related Christmas carols because they’re sports guys and it’s Christmas.

Yesterday we shared with you the 12 Days Of MMA Christmas (“two black eyes!” etc.), and before that it was pro wrestlers singing WWE Jingle Bells. Somewhere in-between we watched the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks sing holiday carols, but I guess that wasn’t explicitly basketball enough, so somebody got 4-pack of Santa hats and made Jason Kidd, James Harden, Blake Griffin and Chris Paul sing NBA-specific Jingle Bells.

It … might be worse than the one with wrestlers. Sample lyric:

Over the “D” he jumps, dunking all the way!

Here’s the commercial. While you’re watching it, I’ll be writing up this thing somebody just sent me of Psy and a bunch of locked-out NHL players singing a Gangnam Style remix of ‘O Come All Ye Faithful.’

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Last week we featured a video of the Dallas Mavericks murmuring their way through ‘Sleigh Ride,’ and if you thought that’d be the end of their wacky Christmas updates, you are underestimating a 12-13 team with nothing better to do.

Today’s installment in what I hope is a Dallas Mavericks Christmas Trilogy is Dirk Gives Presents To His Mavs Teammates, a short film about “Santa Dirk” giving Angry Birds boxers, rotary phones, ‘Saved By The Bell’ sweatshirts and Viking helmets to his fellow Mavericks. It also features O.J. Mayo delivering the best line of dialogue I’ve heard in months:

“Yo, Dirk got me a Christmas gift, I wonder what it is.”

Nailed it.

Anyway, you’ll want to watch this clip. Shake Weights are involved.

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