On December 25th, Vince McMahon had awoken to something
much better than a simple White Christmas. You see, the rules of the game have changed and the world will never be the same. For today, tomorrow and apparently forever the world’s rules are from the Vince McMahon school of thought.
Sports entertainment is mocked and ridiculed by almost everyone in the main stream world. Sports radio pretends that wrestlers are nothing more than actors. Newspapers do not even include house show results in their back sections. Even the New York Daily News has a columnist that wears a mask in his by line photo when he writes his weekly wrestling column, presumably because he is ashamed of his passion. In the eyes of the pop world, wrestling is like the hideously deformed child that so many families have hidden in their
basements.
But sports entertainment is the template of America’s
three major sports. While wrestling is conveniently ignored by the masses, these same masses steal as many of Vince McMahon’s strategies as they can. And somewhere in Connecticut the man himself is smiling.
This poster is not advertising a WWE pay per view but some may beg to differ. You see the legendary Commish of the NBA, David Stern, is not looking so much like a genius anymore.So, he does
what every genius does…steals someone else’s ideas.
Imagine that we are in a NBA meeting – "Picture
this", says Stern " the heel Kobe Bryant defends his home court against the face Shaquille O’Neal." David Stern then instructs his "bookers" to create more beef between the two. "Look I have an idea. Let’s make Shaq give gifts to kids in L.A. That will definitely get him over with the crowd." Another voice chimes in, "Yeah, but we need to draw more heat on Kobe. Oh, let’s have him insult a legend in the game (Karl Malone)."
Does this sound familiar to you wrestling fan?
But let us not forget, in wrestling a name is not enough. A nickname has to be added on top of another nickname. Hunter Hearst Helmsley became HHH became The Cerebral Assassin. Shaquille O’Neal has become Shaq has become the Big Fella and on and on we go.
Of course it does. This is wrestling 101.
And somewhere Vince McMahon is smiling.
But it does not stop there.
Baseball anyone?
When wrestling was struggling to gain popularity someone came up with the idea to enhance their body with performance enhancers. Speculation has run rampant that Mr. McMahon was responsible for the "juicing up" also known as Hulking Up that his wrestlers partook in. Dangerous? Yes. Genius? Yes.
So genius in fact that the idea was too good to limit itself to the world of professional wrestling. You see Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball is also a graduate of the Vince McMahon school of thinking. With the game of baseball struggling mightily after its strike shortened season of 1994, something had to be done soon. After one million homeruns and countless injections, rubs and swallows, it has finally come out that the games best and brightest have more in common with great wrestlers than they do with their own sportsmen. At Wrestlemania XIX, Jim Ross compared the match-up between the Rock and Hogan to Bonds v. Ruth. He was more right than he knew.
And some where Vince McMahon is smiling.
The NFL has been dubbed as the perfect sports league. To shame that these praisers of the NFL are unaware that Paul Tagliabue, the commish of the NFL, also holds his lambskin from the McMahon school of thought.
While this photo seems innocent it depicts the end of a gesture only seen in the wrestling world.
Freddie "First Down" Mitchell makes the gesture that every aspiring champion does while posing on the turnbuckles. You know the gesture that I am referring to, the title across the waist move. I wonder where he learned that from? But of course The world according to Vince McMahon is not without great
support. While posing could be attributed to any sport what explains this clothesline?
And somewhere Vince McMahon is smiling.
Geniuses are often the center of ridicule but most receive their credit. Einstein had stupid hair but is
given credit for the famous equation E=mc2 . The real estate genius Donald Trump picked a poor hairstylist himself. However each of
his projects bears his name to give him credit for his ingenuity.
What does Vince McMahon have to show for the sheer genius that he demonstrates on a regular basis? Where the Big Three in the sports world have government legislation to help them maintain their monopolies, Vince created his. When his business
struggles he finds new and better ways to bring in the money. Vince McMahon is such a genius that there are hundreds of thousands of web sites devoted to tearing him down. All of this supports the undisputed fact that there is one thing that Vince McMahon can smile at.
The McMahon school of thought has helped to keep American sports alive.
And this is what the world would be, according to Vince McMahon.
