10 Things We Learned From Owen Hart’s Final Day: A POST Profile
3. "A Crime Scene"
By the time Vince McMahon sat down with Off The Record's Michael Landsberg in July 1999 for an extremely candid interview regarding the events of Over The Edge, Jeff Marek was helping the host prep questions for The Chairman and his family.
He recounts to Pollock the one question that got away on the night, and the hypothetical ramifications of McMahon's answer had he ever had the chance to put the words in Landsberg's mouth.
Commenting how it hit him on the flight home from the interview, Marek realised that the show should have proposed a scenario in which Vince's son Shane was in Owen's place. WWE were roundly lambasted for continuing the show - this hypothetical could have provided yet more revealing insight into the hows and whys of making such a controversial decision in the heat of the moment.
Marek's take on the incident itself again highlights how professional wrestling is often (and in this case, criminally) overlooked in comparison to virtually all other forms of sports and entertainment. Highlighting how Over The Edge was theoretically now a "crime scene" as result of Owen's death, he pointedly speculated how the event's continuation was even merely an administrative decision in the first place.