Over the past few years, one of the biggest complaints about the WWE product is that there is simply too much of it. To follow the entire narrative you have to sacrifice entire weeks out of every year! The sheer amount of content aired lately is trying for even the most hardcore fan. Within the span of six days, WWE aired 14 hours of programming. Last Thursday gave us NXT: R Evolution (2 hours), followed by Friday's SmackDown (2 hours), then WWE was kind and gave us one day off to do non-wrestling things with our lives. Sunday was TLC (3 hours), Raw on Monday (3 hours), a live SmackDown on Tuesday (2 hours) and Tribute to the Troops on Wednesday (2 hours). By airing that much TV, it just makes watching the product feel less so pedestrian. It also damages the believability of hardcore matches since every talent who was supposedly put through extreme matches like Dolph Ziggler, Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Kane showed up night after night competing in matches looking no worse for wear. For years, we were given between four and eight hours a month of original WWF programming. Now you have to give up on your hobbies, get a divorce, and quit your job just to follow The Bella Twins story.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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