For the first time in a very long time I’m on the side of the worldwide leader in sports, ESPN.
Check out this hilarious find by our friend over at With Spandex — Sportscenter reported on WrestleMania and people on Twitter who aren’t wrestling fans acted exactly as you’d expect.
I need to sit down. My world has been shattered. Bush did 9/11? How am I just hearing about this news?
A couple points to the “wrestling is fake” contingent in the crowd:
- No shit. Movies, TV shows and books are also fake. As Bill Simmons paraphrasingly put it “you don’t get mad at Liam Neeson because he can’t really shoot a hundred people and save his family” so why get mad that these guys aren’t really kicking each other’s teeth in.
- Check out the RTs and favorites of that tweet. Over three thousand in both categories, and based on the time stamp, that was just within a few minutes of Rollins actually winning the title. That’s a ton of people who actually care.
- I was in attendance on Sunday. There were 72,000 people interested in the outcome of the matches and another million watching at home. That’s a nice chunk of people into “fake shit.”
ESPN is reporting on athletes. Wrestlers are athletes. Liam Neeson could probably still kill a bunch of people. The end.
[via With Spandex]