A Match Made In Heaven II

Earlier today, I read that Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs' tight end - Travis Kelce -  are planning to get married at Madison Square Garden.

Interesting choice. That was my first thought. 

My second:

I've actually seen a wedding from MSG!

Yep - us wrestling fans witnessed the nuptials of 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth in the main event of SummerSlam 1991.

The ceremony was part of a double bill to end the World Wrestling Federation's summer extravaganza. 

Shortly before the wedding, Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior had beaten The Triangle of Terror (Sgt. Slaughter, General Adnan and Colonel Mustafa) in a handicap match refereed by Sid Justice. The bout was billed 'A Match Made in Hell'. Its counter - the wedding - was classed as 'A Match Made in Heaven'.

Everything went off without a hitch. Savage and Elizabeth were kayfabed married (they were a real-life husband and wife before the event). However, in the days which followed, WWF TV aired footage from the wedding reception. It was gate-crashed by Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and The Undertaker with the former having hidden a snake inside one of the presents Elizabeth opened.

Hopefully, if this MSG marriage does go ahead (and isn't tabloid gossip!), the couple will take care when opening their gifts.

Six Days

It's hard to believe that, this time next week, the 2026 World Cup would have started.

Over the past few days, I've thought about the last one. From late 2022. It genuinely seems like only a couple of years ago.

As I've written previous to today, I am unsure if I'm going to end up being all-in on the tournament this time. Some of the kick off times don't appeal to me at all. I feel like if I have to be invested, I need to watch everything I can. Those late games are simply not good for my body clock! 

(And yes, that last sentence was written by somebody who stays up late to watch WWE and NFL).

The good sign - I am writing about the World Cup with six days to kick off. I'm invested. Slightly.

2 New NFL-Inspired McCoy's Crisps In The Wild?

My friend showed me a photo of a couple of new NFL-themed The Real McCoy's crisps that are apparently on store shelves right now.

I've had a look on the KP website to get a promotional photo for this post, but I couldn't find anything other than that.

All I have seen is the person's photo holding two multipacks. One is a 'Yellow Mustard' flavour. The second is 'Hot Kick Ketchup'.

As you can likely tell, I'm intrigued. I've still found myself purchasing the two NFL-inspired flavours the company brought out last season - Buffalo Chicken Wings and Secret Burger Sauce - every now again.

KP is currently in the latter part of a three-year deal with the National Football League to be the 'Official Snack Partner of the UK and Ireland'. Last season, customers had a chance of winning tickets to Super Bowl as part of a promotion.

I'm going to keep a look out for the new flavours and will post an update once - if? - I do.

Pros And One Con Of WWE In Europe

I enjoy being able to watch WWE TV programmes whenever they're live in Europe. Well, apart from having to deal with the commercial breaks during Smackdown, but that's beside today's point.

So, yes, to clarify once more - I enjoy watching WWE when the shows air from Europe. It means I get to see everything happen in real time and not the following day.

BUT...

What I don't enjoy is said 'following day' when I keep thinking I've jumped a day because 'I watched Raw yesterday'. Same with Saturday last week. I thought it was Sunday after watching Smackdown on Friday.

I spent a lot of Tuesday thinking it was Wednesday. I even tore off  Tuesday's page on my desk calendar thinking it was June 3rd! 

How mad is that?

Oreo Turns 4

It's Oreo's unofficial birthday today. He turned 4.

We chose June 2nd because it's one month after mine and is in a perfect spot ahead of other family members' birthdays. We have my nephew's later this month, my dad's in July and then mum's is a month after that.

Works out well, if I say so myself. I think I've written enough about how much enjoyment it has been for me to have Oreo (And Squeak!) since they came here. He has kept me on my toes (in a good way!).

2 Tobys

Before I fell asleep last night, I tuned into the Neighbours 24/7 stream on YouTube to see which storylines were going on.

I surmise it was 1990 or so (the feed keeps going so far before starting back in 1989ish). Anyway, to cut a long story short, the scene I caught had Kerry and Toby Mangel watching Kerry's wedding to Joe Mangel on a video cassette.

The TV was playing actual clips of the episode. We didn't see much. Kerry commented to Toby something along the lines of 'look how nice you looked in your suit'.

It made me laugh out loud because it felt like an inside joke because the actor portraying Toby in those current scenes was not the actor who played him at the wedding.

I had to make sure, so checked out a video of the wedding immediately after watching that scene.

It turned out to be a good guess on my part.

The earlier version of Toby Mangel was played by Finn Greentree-Keane. He was in the role between 1988 and 1990. His replacement, Ben Guerens, took over in '90 and remained on the cast for three years.

I always recall seeing the then new Toby on a Children's BBC show. The programme  (I cannot recall what it was exactly) was in Australia on the Neighbours set and they showed some of the actors filming their scenes. One of the things being filmed was had Joe and Toby Mangel in their kitchen and it more or less gave away that a new Toby was on the horizon.

At the time, there was a huge gap between the Australian and UK screenings. I believe it was something like eighteen months at one point. If not more.

Other than last night's dip into the stream, I'm more or less done watching the feed. It's difficult to stick with it knowing that everything will repeat within a week or so.

It was fun while it lasted.

Reacting To My Prediction From Yesterday

I am actually quite surprised with myself.

In yesterday's post, I predicted that the Champions League Final would be a draw in regulation and Paris Saint-Germain would end up lifting the trophy.

It went that way.

With that said, I feel quite sorry for Arsenal.

In my vision, I had Arsenal on the backfoot but making it a draw. I didn't envision them leading for the majority of the game before a slip.

They were very unlucky.