| SouthernExpress | Date: Thursday, 2011/07/14, 10:35 PM | Message # 1 |
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| The scene opens inside The Colosseum Board Room, Red Fitzgerald is sitting in between Bobby Rose and Jimmy Lane. A man in a three piece suit walks into the room and shakes hands with the three men. He is Tony Gordon, Vice President of Marketing for the EWA. He’s a young man and just smiles as he sits across from Red and The Southern Express.
Tony: I have to say I can’t believe we signed The Southern Express here in the EWA.
Red: And we are happy to be here.
Bobby: Just not this early in the morning, we had a late night.
Jimmy: You tell em Bobby!
Tony: You guys tore it up like the old days?
Bobby: You can’t put the Sothern Express in the Big Apple and not expect us to tear the town up, baby. The Champaign was flowing, panties were droppin’ and hearts where breakin’!
Jimmy: You know it Bobby!
Tony: Well, I’m glad you two are enjoying your time here. I was a big supporter of the EWA signing you guys, truth is I’m a fan, a big fan of you guys. The first show I saw as a kid you guys won the WWC Tag Team Titles against Boris and Sergei, The Communist Connection. That night I wanted to become a professional wrestler.
Bobby: We kicked those commie bastards right back to Moscow.
Jimmy: Yes we did Bobby!
Tony: The thing is some of our younger fans have no clue who you guys are and some of our older fans might have forgotten just how good your guys are, so I pitched the idea to management about taking over the marketing of the Southern Express.
Bobby: People forgot who WE are?
Jimmy: Who we are?
Bobby: We are the 72 time Tag Team Champions!
Jimmy: 72 TIMES!
Bobby: We have beaten EVERYONE in the business worth beating.
Jimmy: EVERYONE Bobby!
Bobby: We have held every tag team title there is to win, and the EWA Tag Team Titles is next on the list baby.
Jimmy: You know it Bobby!
Bobby: We are going to legitimize tag team wrestling in the EWA.
Tony: Yes you are, but we feel like we need to reintroduce you guys to the wrestling world.
Red: They don’t need no reintroduction, they need a title shot son.
Tony: And I think I can help with that, you see the EWA is lunching a series of DVDs and I pitched to management the idea of a Sothern Express DVD.
Bobby: A DVD?
Tony: Yeah, we can tell the story of the Southern Express, how you got started, tell the history of the team.
Red: Everyone knows the story.
Bobby: Yeah, educated wrestling fans know all about the Southern Express.
Jimmy: Educated fans!
Tony: Yes, but we have a fresh new crop of wrestling fans today that might not know you guys and we here at the EWA feel we can market you to them. You guys are a great talent and we want to tell your story and add in some of your classic matches.
Red: That could work, show the matches from SEWA against The Chain Gang.
Tony: And the Wild Youth.
Red: Oh and the scaffold match against the Moore Brothers.
Tony: And we have to have the Coastal Express on this.
Bobby: Wait, I have an idea.
Jimmy: You tell ’em Bobby!
Bobby: Lets bring back the Coastal Express here to the EWA, we can restart the feud, baby!
Red and Tony look at Bobby who is clearly excited about this idea.
Tony: Bobby you know that can’t happen right?
Bobby: Why not, you want to show the wrestling world real tag team wrestling, book the Southern Express against the Coastal Express, we will tear the roof off! Whoo!
Jimmy: You know it Bobby!
Tony: Bobby Lonnie had a stroke and Monty is dead!
Bobby: Really?
Red: Yeah, he’s been dead for years pal.
Tony: Well we will work with you guys on this, give you a list of matches and teams and have you guys do commentary on the matches
Bobby: That could be cool.
Jimmy: You know it Bobby!
Tony looks at Jimmy and shakes his head.
Tony: We can figure all that out but for now I want to show you this.
Tony grabs a remote and flips on the TV, then a Don LaFontaine the legendary movie voice guy comes on the screen.
FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES THEY HAVE DEFINED TAG TEAM WRESTLING NOW FOLLOW THEM FROM THE BEING, RELIVE THERE DAYS IN SOUTH EASTERN WERESTLING ASSOCIATION AND FOLLOW THEM TO MAIN STREAM FAME IN THE IWL. IN THIS TWO DISK COLLECTOR SET HEAR FROM BOBBY ROSE AND JIMMY LANE ALONG WITH THEIR LEGENDARY MANAGER RED FITZGERALD ABOUT THE FEUDS THAT DEFINED TAG TEAM WRESTLING FOR A GENERATION.
The screen goes blank and Tony looks across the table.
Tony: We will launch this DVD along with torn up t-shirts and bandanas, it will be a money making machine and launch you guys to stardom here in the EWA.
Red: That’s all fine and good but kid we are here for one thing and one thing only, those tag team titles.
Tony: Well, you help me and I will help you.
Red looks him in the eyes and then extends his hand.
Red: You have yourself a deal kid.
Tony shakes hands with all three men.
Tony: One more things guys, please head down to the EWA studio. We have the cameras set up for the Southern Express to cut their first promo in the EWA. I want you to create some excitement for your upcoming match against the Son of Ohio.
Red: Sounds great Tony. The boys and I will head right down.
Bobby: Excitement is my middle name, baby!
Scene fades.
The scene opens with Red Fitzgerald standing in front of a black banner with the EWA logo across it. Red is an older man, but still large in stature. His fading red hair is pulled back into a ponytail. He is dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, sporting sunglasses. He paces back and forth, then pauses, turns, and stares directly into the camera.
Red: I know right now some of you are wondering just who the heck I am. Who is this old man and what in the world is he doing in the EWA? Well, I’ll tell you. I am Red Fitzgerald and I am the manager of THE greatest tag team of all time! And that tag team is the Southern Express!
Red pauses and collects himself.
Red: And right now you probably have a puzzled look on your face and you are asking yourself…who is the Southern Express? Is he talking about those two old guys that ran in and saved the Wreckers from the Sons of Ohio? Those two old farts that have absolutely no business showing up on television, no business showing up in he EWA, and certainly no business being in a wrestling ring!
Red motions off camera.
Red: I am here to tell you that you are dead wrong! The Southern Express are here in the EWA to remind ALL of you just what real tag team wrestling is supposed to be! So now, let me introduce to you ‘Smooth’ Bobby Rose and ‘Classy’ Jimmy Lane…THE SOUTHERN EXPRESS!
Bobby and Jimmy come into view, flanking Red Fitzgerald. They are dressed in matching black t-shirts, acid washed jeans and a bandana tied to their legs at the thigh.
Bobby: That’s right…the Southern Express and alive and kicking and we are here in the EWA baby!
Jimmy: That’s right Bobby.
Bobby: We are here in the EWA for one thing and one thing only…we want that tag team gold! And nothing is going to get in our way.
Jimmy: You tell ‘em Bobby.
Bobby: You see, we have been in this business for a long, long time. He have seen and done anything and everything you can think of. But there is one thing missing from our resume…and that is the EWA Tag Team Championship. Now, don’t get me wrong, we are the 72 time tag team champions. But what’s wrong with wanting to make it 73?
Jimmy: Nothing wrong with that Bobby.
Bobby: Jimmy and I are the 5 time Ricky Bennett Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament Champions! 5 time! You know what that means? That means we have faced the greatest tag teams in the world and we have defeated them all!
Jimmy: Preach on Bobby!
Bobby: We have faced them all and we have beat them all. We have faced the greatest from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean, from the Mason Dixon Line to the Gulf of Mexico. You set them up Jack, and the Southern Express will cut ‘em down!
Jimmy: Whow Bobby!
Bobby: And let me tell you something.. The Southern Express ain’t too proud to start at the bottom and work their way to the top. We’ve been climbing and clawing our way to the top our whole careers and we ain’t going to stop now. We don’t care who we have to face…Sons of Ohio, the Wreckers, Total Mayhem, Hometown Heroes…hell, even Mike King and that thing he calls a tag team partner that gives me and Jimmy the creeps!
Jimmy shutters.
Bobby: I see next week at Shatter Point we face the Sons of Ohio. Well, the Southern Express has a little message for the Sons of Ohio. Dennis Clayton…Joshua Newsome…don’t you dare to try and pull what you did on the Wreckers on us. We are wise to your game and we ain’t going to fall victim like Akeem and Katterina.
Jimmy: No way.
Bobby: Clayton and Newsome, don’t you pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining and don’t tell me what you did last week was tag team wresting. That display last week was a joke, a disgrace and you spit in the face of professional wrestling. And when you spit in the face of professional wrestling, you spit in the face of the Southern Express, Jack!
Red: After Shatter Point, the Southern Express can check the Sons of Ohio of the list of the tag teams we destroy on our way to the EWA Tag Team Championship Titles baby!
Message edited by SouthernExpress - Thursday, 2011/07/14, 11:12 PM |
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