WWE Glory Days: A Place in Time Close to My Heart

It wasn't long ago. Fifteen to 20 years to be exact.

Well, maybe that is a long time ago.  However, it feels just like yesterday.

I ran down my driveway after the mail truck put a brown box into our mailbox. Inside the brown box were two or three Coliseum Videos I would beg my mom to buy for me every month or so.

I would sit inside on a rainy day, watch these videos, and break them down. Back then, before the internet, I had my oown Bleacher Report.

Notebooks, that I still own today, are filled with match results from past pay-per-views, Raws, and Coliseum videos.

There was no worries for me during these years.  It was all WWF/E, all the time.

I remember even going camping one week and missing a pay-per-view where Shawn Michaels reclaimed the WWF Championship. 

Since there was no Facebook, Twitter, or cell phones, I had no clue what happened.

I remember rushing into my room when we got home and playing my VHS tape that recorded Saturday morning's Superstars and Monday's Raw.

So the point of this article is to ask myself what the problem is today.

Alright, so I do work 50-plus hours a week and own a house now.

Overall, I most likely have 20-30 responsibilities now that I didn't have back then.  So, that has to be a factor.

More importantly, I think I have grown out of it, which doesn't mean I don't love it any less, but it is just a natural transition that I can't avoid.

What I want to know is if there any 10-year-old kids out there, living the feeling that I did when I was their age.

Is the product good enough for that?

I think with the advancing of so much technology over the past 20 years that kids could be doing a lot of other things then watching WWE.

However, when I look in the crowd, it seems I am seeing more and more young ones. So, in retrospect, maybe WWE is the same and I'm the one who has changed.

Who knows, they could feel the same way about today's stars that I did about yesterday's stars.

John Morrison could be their Shawn Michaels, John Cena could be their Steve Austin, and The Undertaker, well, I guess is their Undertaker.

The more and more I think about it, I want to find some way to get these feelings back.

No, I am not going to plaster my walls with posters and photos like they used to be, but I want WWE to thrill me again.  I want it back in my life full-time.

I don't believe it is going to take a lot of effort from me, but there just has to be that one spark to start a fire of emotions and it will all come back to me.

I think going to my second WrestleMania next year, this time in my backyard, could be that spark that I need.

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