A little less
than a month ago it was brought to my attention that the actual,
real live (well, as live as cotton can be) outfit that none other
than Katie Vick wore on WWE television was going to be auctioned
off on WWE.com. I got a ton of emails about it, and I laughed
whole heartedly at the absurdity of such a notion. Forget porcelain
Stone Cold babies, or vibrating Kevin Nash dolls. This has them
all beat by far.
After all,
who in their right mind would ever think, "WOW! I've GOT
TO BUY THIS!"
Then the phone
rang. It was Blade Braxton.
I knew I should
have hung up immediately.
"Dude,
did you hear that they are auctioning off Katie Vick's cheerleader
outfit?" he squealed with delight. "We have GOT TO BUY
THIS!"
And that's
where it all started to go wrong.
Please don't
ask me why, but I actually listened to his argument. Remember
the old cartoons where a character would listen to the little
devil version of himself on his shoulder? That's EXACTLY what
it's like when I start taking advice from our JOTW correspondent.
And sure enough,
$200 and a few days later, THIS arrived at WrestleCrap HQ:

I have to
admit, I had zero idea what the hell this package could even be.
In fact, it just kind of sat over in the corner for a couple of
days before I finally decided to investigate.
"From:
WWE/VENUE"
Oh yeah, now
I remember - that stupid thing that Blade talked me into, that
led to a humongoid fight with the Missus. Now before you take
Lady Deal to task for this, I want you to step back and think
about how, exactly, I was supposed to explain to my wife that
I just dropped a C-Note (BB and I split the cost) on such a thing.
Put yourself in my shoes.
"Well,
you see, honey, I bought something...it's a cheerleader outfit
worn by a mannequin who was supposedly dead in a wrestling skit.
Isn't that GREAT?"
Amazingly,
I'm not divorced.
Well, at least
not yet.
And then there's
Blade, calling me every freakin' day asking if I got it yet. Finally,
I call him back and tell him it's here. "Well, what the F***
are you waiting for? OPEN IT UP!"
So I do. And
this is what I found:

Five ZipLoc
baggies of clothes.
Oh yeah, the
wife will TOTALLY understand why I shelled out money for THIS.
I open up
the first of the baggies, the one that had "ALL SIGNED"
scribbled across it, apparently by a three year old with his first
Crayloa. And this is what I found:

One bra and
no less than FOUR pair of panties, all signed by wrestling's equivalent
to the anti-Christ, Triple H himself.
For those
sickos out there (and you know who you are), you will be glad
to know that our favorite deceased pom pom gal was a 36C. Weird.
She looked much smaller on TV.

She also had
very weird feet, apparently, as the socks (six pairs!) included
in the next baggie ranged from stockings that Andre could have
put both feet in at once to a pair so dinky that wouldn't have
fit Sky Low Low's pinky toe.
I also received
an official Certificate of Authenticity signed by no less than
Linda McMahon herself.


You know what
would have been really great? If she had signed a pair of the
panties. Imagine how much THOSE would go for on eBay.

The highlight
was the outfit itself. It looks to be very well made. Perhaps
if I lose 150 pounds (and my penis) I can dance around in it to
the delight of no one.
As I scattered
everything across my floor, I looked at my bounty. One cheerleader
outfit. Three pom poms (I dare not even ask how she waved the
odd one). Four pair of panties. A bra signed by my least favorite
wrestler of all time. Six pairs of socks.
So remember
- no matter what you may have bought in the name of wrestling,
no matter how worthless or stupid it might have been...you didn't
blow $200 on this.
Which makes
you much smarter than the dorks who run WrestleCrap.