Greetings from under the black hat from WWE’s resident Okie – who’s barbecue-fueled with “My JR’S BBQ Sauce” – and ready to head to the Pacific Northwest for Sunday’s “No Mercy” pay-per-view and Tuesday’s Friday Night SmackDown taping in Spokane, Wash., which will be our second broadcast on MyNetwork TV.

We are celebrating the move to MyNetwork TV in style in Oklahoma City with a watch party of Friday Night SmackDown, starring Tazz and a cast of thousands, at J.R.’s Family BBQ Restaurant in Moore, Okla., and at our Norman J.R.’s as well, in association with our local MyNetwork TV affiliate KAUT Channel 43.

Friday Night SmackDown was a major production emanating from Green Bay Tuesday night, and was one of the faster-paced, in-ring friendly events I can recall in a long time on any WWE broadcast. The broadcast starts huge with an All-Star Eight-Man Tag that went three segments. And the maiden voyage on the new network finishes equally as strong with a Champion of Champions Triple Threat bout featuring champions Triple H, Chris Jericho, and Matt Hardy.

There is no better time to check your local listings than now to locate the MyNetwork TV affiliate in your area. Don’t wait until five minutes before the perceived show time to do your homework. This is a Friday Night SmackDown you don’t want to miss, especially if you enjoy color commentators splendidly attired in orange … which isn’t yours truly’s favorite color but as Tony Soprano told wife Carmella, “Poor me!”

Random Thoughts:

I may or may not have gotten a quasi, Joe E. Styles motivated “CAT FIGHT” in on Friday night’s show during the first-ever Divas Champion vs. Women’s Champion bout that saw Diva Lumberjacks surround the ring in, believe it or not, party attire. If my old broadcast partner Jerry “The King” Lawler had been announcing, there is no doubt in my mind he would have experienced a rise … in his blood pressure and his mental focus for this attraction.

Speaking of Lawler, word on the street has it that he has volunteered to fly to the west coast to be at Heather Locklear’s side during her recent meltdown – until King found out that she was “getting a little long in the tooth.” He thought she was still young as in her “T.J. Hooker” days.

No word on SmackDown G.M. Vickie Guerrero’s condition after she was Tombstoned by Undertaker last week, which could make Friday Night SmackDown a “rudderless ship” this week. If “The Fink” wasn’t so busy mentoring Dr. Joe E. Styles here on WWE.com, there is no one who could right this egregious wrong better than “Uncle Howard,” who was all over the home page of WWE.com the last time I looked. 

Poor Howard … allegedly he shed a few tears when Shea Stadium saw its last-ever Mets game last week and, again, the Mets soiled the sheets and let their loyal fans down, by unfortunately choking just like last year. That’s just not right folks, and is worse than the heartbreak of psoriasis. Or an Oklahoma loss this Saturday to the Baylor Bears. 

Look for those Santino Marella unibrows to begin selling any day now on WWE Shop, where you can also purchase our J.R.’s products, as nothing says humor like a well-groomed unibrow. I would love to see Santino join the rather homely redhead on the cashew commercials we see about every 15 minutes on TV. That would be a riotous, comedic masterpiece. 

Wait until you see the meeting of the General Managers’ minds Friday night on SmackDown as both Mike Adamle, who seemed somewhat addled but I am told that is his natural demeanor, and Theodore R. Long, whose great looking suit was right out of the Billy D. Williams collection, were present for SmackDown to offer support after their cohort Vickie Guerrero found her self on the wrong end of the Undertaker’s Tombstone last week, as previously mentioned.

Hey kids, don’t you just love the Honk-A-Meter? I keep expecting the legendary IC Champion, the Greatest IC Champion of all Time, the Honky Tonk Man to show up at any time and Shemp-slap Santino, but alas, it wasn’t on Monday night in the IC Champ’s :47 second loss to Batista on Monday Night Raw.

Did You Know? That over 50 WWE Superstars and every recognized WWE Champion is in attendance Friday night on SmackDown?

Did You Know? That the WWE’s top rated broadcast team, that would be Tazz and his sidekick J.R., are broadcasting two entire bouts at the No Mercy pay per view on Sunday?

Seems to me that Primo Colon is one of the most promising young Superstars we have seen in a while in the WWE, and he already may be on par or perhaps even better than his slightly older brother Carlito. But Carlito still has the edge in the follicle department.

Now, which one is Hawkins and which one is Ryder?

I just bought one of those Gillette Fusion razors that we see so often on TV. Nice shave, except I seem to want to hit my wife with a steel chair when I use the razor of the future. Not really … I jest of course of the steel chair usage. My lovely wife Jan has better developed arms than Madonna, who looks like she had her last square meal around the time Mr. McMahon was wearing canary yellow sport coats … BROTHER!

O.K., let’s clear this up right now…my pal Michael Cole does NOT get his hair cut at the McAllen, Texas, Barber College.

Dream match for your consideration … Jillian Hall vs. Kathy Griffin, the sassy, redheaded comedian, to be held in a Winnebago while traveling coast-to-coast with Tazz driving and J.R. riding “shotgun.” The under card would feature an Intergender bout between The Fink and Lilian Garcia, both wearing Speedo’s, with Sir Anthony Chimel and Justin Roberts barred from the vehicle. Now that, my friends, is a dot com extravaganza!

Yours truly is going to head to Waco, Texas, no not to tour the Branch Davidian Church, but to attend the OU-Baylor game that will be televised at 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning on Fox Sports. Then – this is where it gets good – I will rush back to Dallas and catch a flight to Portland Saturday night for Sunday’s No Mercy pay-per-view.

Don’t forget to check out our ever-growing Web site, www.jrsbarbq.com, for my blogs and for the section that we answer your questions also known as Q&A’s. We also have autographed, J.R.’s Cookbooks holiday priced at $9.99, along with our “Got Sauce” T-shirts and a variety of delicious, Oklahoma-grown J.R.’s Bar Nuts among many other items. We have a load of items priced at under $10 on our site waiting to be shipped to you today. Remember, “Baby needs new shoes.” Finally there is a video of a restaurant review of our place that you might find of interest and it can be accessed for free at www.jrsbarbq.com.

Boomer Sooner!
J.R.