Football, Wrestling and Cars

Football, Wrestling and Cars

Interesting day, wasn’t it?

Tonight I am wrapping up a day of three events that made tonight a pretty interesting night. The first was a night of local wrestling at the fair grounds, watching the UWC wrestling for probably the 6th time in about a year.

I blogged about this earlier, and whenever we can, we try to go out and support local wrestling. I mean, people really miss out on good entertainment and are completely biased to what is shown on television. Trust me, there are tons of smaller wrestling federations across the country, but all most people know is WWE and TNA.

It’s like something my brother told me while we were sitting in the building waiting for the wrestling to begin. We would love to see more people come out, because we know those guys are working their behinds off for small crowds. My brother told me that one problem a lot of “fans” have is when you mention a wrestling event in a small town, the first thing that comes out their mouth is “who’s gonna be there”?

What does it matter? If it was a big name, you would not go anyway because the ticket sales would be more than you can afford. I mean think about it, if for some miracle of a chance a small wrestling group managed to get John Cena or The Undertaker, the tickets would jump from the normal $6 to about $30...MINIMUM. Those same people who want to see big names could not afford it anyway. But if there is no names they know, they won’t go see it anyway, as if the ONLY wrestlers in the country live on television.

Anyway, the event was great and it was well worth the money. Those guys deserve more support and I think the next time UWC comes to town will be in November. Hopefully we can pack the seats for them.

We came home and the first thing I did was turn on the television to catch the Hawaii vs. Boise State game, which was just coming out of halftime. The score was 10-7 and it seemed like a pretty tight game, but the quarterback of Hawaii threw like 263 interceptions in the second half.

Well, it wasn’t that much, but he had 5 by the end of the game. They lost 27-7, so those turnovers were a direct impact in the loss of that game. But with that win, Boise State now begs the question on whether they deserve a BCS bowl. They are currently #15 on one poll, so it will be interesting to see what happens at the end of the weekend.

But you know, I remember Hawaii more in what happened last year, and how the entire university let their coach down. June Jones was the head coach there, and left them after their incredible season last year. From what I hear, it was mainly because he kept trying to get the university to spend more money in facilities to help recruit better players. Apparently the university didn’t want to hear him, probably because they felt that the island sold itself to prospective players. That kinda sounds like they were too high on themselves and refused to spend the money to help recruit better players.

It would seem that June Jones got sick and tired of this…and mind you this is not his words, just my opinion. It appears that he got tired of Hawaii screwing him around, and decided to leave. When news got out, everybody from the governor to the university begged him to stay. Well, it’s too late now, you had several years to do what the coach asked, and he just got fed up with it. So Hawaii loses the best thing they ever had, because the university seemed to be too full of themselves.

I really hate it when college football is perverted by athletic directors and rich alumni who think they know what’s best for the school, when all it is really about is money and foolish pride. Southern Mississippi is the same way, in how they ran off their coach. I used to root for Hawaii a lot, but now, well, they’re just a team.

In between watching that game and recovering from my voice from a night of screaming at wrestlers, I checked out the Barrett-Jackson Auction on Speed Channel. They are in Las Vegas this weekend and it is always a blast to look at cars I’ll never be able to afford. The only problem with the auction is that it takes place during football games, and on Saturday football rules. I always enjoyed watching it, and it is kinda like a weekend event, even if I can’t go there in person.

So tonight was filled with some excitement, tomorrow brings more football, so I better get ready.