I always wondered why the WWE would choose to go head to head with the juggernaut that is the NFL weekly game on Monday nights. From the time that I can first remember anything, Monday nights were always like Christmas days with fewer gifts and not nearly as many arguments. Yet, the WWE has had steady viewership despite their head to head conflict with the rough and tumble National Football League.
Since 2000, the NFL has not existed for me on Monday nights as all of my attention has been loyally devoted to Vince McMahon’s Raw. That was until yesterday. If you remember a column I wrote almost a year ago, we talked about the influence the WWE has had on other sports.* Well that influence has only attracted fans, not claimed them permanently. That was until yesterday when the copy was better than the original.
You see, I get bored every Monday waiting for Raw to start at 9 p.m. During the eight o’ clock hour, I was watching the pre-game show for Monday Night Football when a fight broke out, BEFORE the game started. Man, this was better than WWE programming! The announcers reacted as if the fight really was a wrestling match. They broke down the techniques used by the participants and the fight even included run-ins!
For a brief moment, Raw was on the back burner as it had become necessary to see how this game would play out after the brawl.
However, Raw did what it always does and got me hooked instantly when I checked in at nine on the dot. Anything dealing with Edge and Matt Hardy has my full attention and that is what the show started with. After marking out like a school girl would for Hello Kitty, it happened. You know, it; the dreaded interruption with a commercial break. And then…
…I completely forgot about Raw.
During the break I turned to Monday Night Football to see the aftermath and it was like Raw was erased from my brain by Agent K and his dildo looking zapper.
During the day today, I never even looked for the results displayed so well at wrestlingexposed.com. No, Monday Night Football stole a fan away from the WWE last night and for the WWE’s sake, they better hope I was the only one. I spent the time between grading papers reading about the game and the repercussions from the brawl. And I never felt guilty while doing it. Maybe the WWE lost this game but if the WWE expects to survive against the all encompassing NFL, they should avoid going into commercial breaks in the middle of their 5 star feuds. Either that or begin a Monday night war with a revamped XFL.
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