When I was young, I never understood why old folks would always get upset whenever I complained about something. “You spoiled little brat. Back in my day…” was the way the quote began, followed by a story about how they had to walk uphill barefoot in snow, how they had to get up and walk to the TV and turn a dial on the TV to change the channel, or how people use to have real conversations before those mini computer texting machines were created.
All week, I’ve watched kids and teens complaining about the WWE Network online,and I now know how those old folks felt. Are you children mental?!
All throughout Extreme Rules, I saw many young folks on Twitter whining with comments like this:
“Wahhhhh. The WWE Network lags during live streams.”
“Wahhhhh. Why is WWE Network uploading this when they should upload that?”
“The only good thing on The Network is NXT.”
You spoiled little brats. How dare you.
BACK IN MY DAY… I would have
killed…
literally murdered someone… to have access to a 24 hour wrestling channel.
Unfortunately, I was born at the wrong time. You know how I had to watch wrestling? Pay per view! Yea! Instead of paying $9.99 in 2015 for all those hours and hours of wrestling, back in the 1990’s I spent $29.9
9 ($49.00 when you factor in inflation) for two and a half hours of wrestling. You damn kids complaining about a few lags.. It’s better than having to try and watch a PPV that you couldn’t afford through a scrambled screen, trying decipher what was happening through the commentary alone, hoping that you’d get a decent glimpse of some Sable side boob!
If I missed a pay per view live that day, I couldn’t just watch it later on demand whenever I wanted. I had to wait until the following Tuesday, when Viewer’s Choice would air it again. And if I missed that, I had to wait FOUR MONTHS until the VHS (also known as a video casette– the thing that existed before DVD’s) was available. I would then have to pay $39.99 PLUS $5.00 shipping and handling, making the price roughly $67.71 in 2015 with inflation.
What a deal!
I know I have mentioned this before, but I think I should mention it again. I spent nearly my whole childhood– and most of my adult life– trying to collect wrestling tapes, particularly wrestling pay per views. Thousands of dollars were spent– thousands– in an effort to obtain all the footage that you can now get for under $10 each month.
In all seriousness though– appreciate it! Explore the options on there. There is more than pay per views and NXT. There’s WCW. There’s WCCW. Saturday Night Main Event. Documentaries. Take time to watch the guys that paved the way for the stars you’re watching today, and see how different the product feels. I assure you, it felt a lot less formulaic than it does now.
Do me a favor and watch one episode of something on the WWE Network you know nothing about. You just might like it and appreciate the $9.99 a month package a tad more!
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