So WWE Just Officially Buried The Lafayette RAW Crowd

In a very strange and petulant and sort of hilarious video, WWE just buried last week's divisive Lafayette RAW crowd.

In it, Pat McAfee laid out the current events in WWE as the Road To WrestleMania heats up. "Everybody's jacked up, everybody's excited, popcorn's poppin' " - *record scratch* - "except for one city."

*Crickets sound effect*

McAfee went on to bury the uninterested and lifeless Lafayette crowd in a quite insane promotional exercise. There's an old wrestling phrase, "Killing the town", that describes the cumulative effects of sh*tty booking. The manipulative, rancid bullsh*t WCCW pulled in the late 1980s killed Dallas for a time, for instance.

Sometimes just one disastrous, antagonistic decision pisses an entire region off so much that it takes years - if a promoter is lucky - to recapture them. Starrcade '87 saw Jim Crockett Promotions kill Chicago by putting the heat on the Four Horsemen at the expense of the super-over hometown Road Warriors.

Did WWE just kill the town of Lafayette by...bitching about them in a YouTube video?

There's a classic Simpsons joke, in which Principal Skinner is confronted with the passing of time. The kids no longer hang out at his old haunt of the 4H Club. "Am I so out of touch?" he says, and then the punchline, one that dooms him to the denial of old age.

"No. It's the children who are wrong."

Perhaps if WWE ran Lafayette after this week's RAW - an outstanding, outstanding episode - they might have reacted with renewed optimism.

Perhaps the product shapes the reaction, and not the other way 'round.