On Tuesday, I took a few hours out of my business vacation to New Orleans to share with you the podcast version of the Best and Worst of WWE Elimination Chamber 2013. A lot of people liked it. A lot didn’t. Several of you called me lazy for providing free content because it wasn’t the exact free content I’d imagined when I left for NOLA.

Regardless, I loved it (as anyone who gets what Trew To The Game is actually going for would), and the end of the episode promised a part 2 about our experience in the front row of the WrestleMania XXX press conference. If you didn’t like the first one (because it wasn’t a straight-forward, analytical podcast and was me having fun with my friends) (because you hate that I have friends) (and further accusations), give this one a shot. It’s basically just me and Trew going OH MAN HOW GREAT WAS THIS THING WE GOT TO DO, with a healthy sprinkling of “WWE brought in a bunch of black people to dance for us in-between the white people talking.”

Please click on this photo of me and John Cena not giving a rip about the announced Best and Worst posting schedule to listen.

(I was doing his old “Untouchable” taunt)
(it is hard to do with one hand)

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Here is the full press conference video, for reference:

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For those of us counting down the days until Los Angeles Saints gear officially goes on sale: get ready. The state of Louisiana might have a spot of trouble coming up with the annual bribe revenue subsidy paid to the Saints, which the team claims is vital to their remaining in the city of New Orleans. From Y! News:

The payment problem has recurred ever since a deal was negotiated with the Saints in 2001 and the Hornets came from Charlotte, N.C., in 2002. Over the years, the state tapped surplus cash, refinanced Superdome debt and borrowed from a development fund to help make the payments.[...]

The state’s 10-year deal with the Saints is the largest of the two and runs through the 2010 season, guaranteeing the NFL team $186.5 million in payments. The state now owes the Saints some $23.5 million annually—atop the NFL team’s earnings from ticket sales, concessions, parking and other items.

Yeah, considering the state of Louisiana is expected to be about a billion dollars short on its budget, coupled with the fact Saints owner Tom Benson has been trying to get out of New Orleans since before Katrina, how long can the team stay there? Yeah, it’s greedy to uproot your football team for greener pastures in another city, but it’s also greedy to be a heaping ass of a city that wants to have reconstructed housing AND pro football. Maybe you should put Drew Brees’ birthmark to work. That birthmark’s been getting a free ride for far too long.

Have you heard about this? Apparently New Orleans has a football team, and they're going to be playing there tonight. Something about a storm last year and President Bush and Reggie Bush and only one of them cares about black people. I wasn't really paying attention. I was watching something about pop culture nostalgia on VH1.

Lots of people are up in arms about Green Day and U2 playing at the Superdome during Monday Night Football. Because Green Day are from California or considered ex-punk mall rockers who lost their street cred, or because U2 are from Ireland, or because Bono runs around the world like he's making a run for sainthood. But let's not lose sight of the real atrocity here: the Goo Goo Dolls. I'm not one to get into music discussions because everyone has their own opinions and I respect the fact that people have different tastes, but nobody cares about the Goo Goo Dolls. They really, really suck balls. The people who were dumb enough to like them in the first place have long since moved on to Yellowcard.