Just watched Survivor Series 1998 again after someone here had mentioned it a few days ago. Had a lot of fun explaining Vince Russo's convoluted storylines to my girlfriend. As asinine as they were, they just somehow worked in the WWF.
One thing we could never figure out: why would Shane McMahon sign Steve Austin to an iron-clad 5-year contract if he was just going to turn on him a few weeks later?
Also, that triple threat tag match for the titles was one of the worst matches I have ever seen. Mark Henry was fucking terrible back then. Somebody obviously fucked up the finish because there were two spots in the end of the match where there's an obvious cover and referee Tim White just lays there watching for a few seconds before he counts, waiting for someone to get in position to break it up. Billy Gunn looked fucking pissed after the match and Jim Ross let us all know the match sucked shit too.
A few more things:
-- Did Ken Shamrock know that The Rock was in on it? Why was he not pissed that the Bossman intentionally fucked him over in the tournament?
-- What would have happened if Mankind had ended up beating The Rock? There were a ton of really close, false finishes where Mankind almost won and Vince & Shane just stand there doing nothing and not even looking worried.
-- How did Mankind not know that Mr. Socko was wrapped around Al Snow's Head until he saw it at ringside? Does he never watch TV?
-- After Vince ordered X-Pac vs. Regal to go 5 more minutes, why did Regal not just stay in the ring and win, instead running out and going after X-Pac, who he had no previous beef with?
-- Why did The Undertaker randomly club Bossman in the face after he ran in to HELP him against The Rock? Why did Bossman just take it?
-- Why did The Undertaker throw The Rock towards Kane, let Kane chokeslam Rock, and THEN get pissed that Kane got him DQ'ed? Why did he not stop Kane from doing it and try to get Kane to hit him instead? He just stood there and watched Kane do it AFTER throwing Rock to him and clearly had enough time to stop him.
-- J.R. put the officiating on blast all night with all the blatant low blows done in front of the refs. It was seriously out of control. There had to have been at least six blatant nut shots done right in front of the refs and no one gave a shit but Ross.
-- Loved Lawler's dig at Halloween Havoc '98 getting cut off early as Rock/Mankind started, saying, "You'll actually see this main event in its entirety."
-- Lawler and J.R. were so on fire together, it was incredible. They were the perfect team for the Attitude Era.
-- All the obscene signs in the crowd were amazing (such as "Vince McMahon is the People's Asshole" and a few other random signs with the word "tits" on it). There was a hot woman in the crowd with a skimpy shirt on with a sign that said "DX, I'LL SUCK YOURS IF YOU SUCK MINE!" with boobs drawn beneath it. Yep.
