No "I" in TEAM
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 10:56 pm
???: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. [A lone spotlight came on in the middle of the ring to show Damien Sandow standing with a microphone. Daniel Rodimer was behind him with a confident smile on his face. As soon as Sandow and Rodimer are seen the crowd starts to boo.] Silence! [The crowd continued to boo loudly.] Actually, silence is not needed right now. The clock is ticking so loud on The Miz and Dibiase right now it could be heard through a bomb going off! [The crowd booed louder when Sandow stopped talking.] Oh come on you buffoons! You can’t honestly sit there and tell me that you believed any of the sewage that just spewed from either of their mouths? You know as good as I do that the clock is ticking on their partnership. Without their precious leader, thou who shall remain nameless…
Daniel Rodimer: A. J. Styles!
Damien Sandow: … Yes, A. J. Styles. Without him, neither of these guys knows what is going on when it comes to in ring competition. The Miz can, and will, slap you in the face repeatedly with how awesome he is. Dibiase can try to convince you over and over again how much losing Styles doesn’t affect them as a team. The bottom line is, when you lose your leader you are going to be affected. [Sandow paused.] Let’s be honest, Dibiase and Miz, awesome or not… one thing neither of you are a leader!
.:: The crowd booed as Sandow stepped aside and handed the microphone to Rodimer. Daniel stood confidently in the ring with the spotlight on him. You could tell he was soaking up the spotlight finally being on him. ::.
Daniel Rodimer: It’s been a long time coming! It’s about [edit] time this company put a spotlight on us! Notice how I used the word us, instead of the word ME? If there is one thing I learned during my football years at UCF it is that there is no “I” in team. Whenever it comes to Dibiase and Miz that is all they have. They are not a team. They are two “I’s” on the same side with the clock ticking. One day soon the clock will stop ticking and their true colors will come out. They both will think they can do it on their own. They will turn their backs on each other in an effort to achieve greatness on their own. Doesn’t sound like much of a “team” to me? [Rodimer paused as the crowd booed.] Especially now without Styles directing them around. You think either of them ever had an entertaining thought on their own? Do you all remember Miz before the Styles days? I wasn’t here at the time, but I remember he was far, far from entertaining. [The crowd sounded their disagreement to the statement Rodimer had made.] You two say that there was no leader of your team. Obviously that is a lie! I mean come on, Stevie Wonder could see for himself that Styles was your all’s leader. [Rodimer paused and smiled.] However, when you look at Brains and Brawn you look at a true team. Sure Sandow has been around longer and has more accomplishments on his record, but that doesn’t make him the leader. This is a fifty/fifty team you are looking at; A well-oiled machine! Just like the mighty offense of the Central Florida Knights. A well-oiled machine that no can stop. Dibiase, Miz, did you hear that? You cannot stop us! You can only hope to contain us!
.:: Rodimer handed the microphone to Sandow and posed for the crowd as the spotlight focused on Sandow. ::.
Damien Sandow: Let’s stay with the football reference shall we? Once, I would say that the team of Dibiase and the Miz was an elite team. However, like an elite defense that loses its best player, the team of Dibiase and Miz has become predictable. Come Monday night you guys are going to be put in a position you have not known very much. You are going to be put in the position where you start to bend. You may not break right away, but you will start to bend. And once the beating continues from me and Dan, you will bend more and more. Then finally, once you both realize that we are not going to let up, when you realize that we are relentless and one of the best tag teams you have ever faced, only then will you break. And if you think a helmet to helmet hit is loud and Earth shattering you haven’t heard anything yet. Because when your combined ego does finally reach that breaking point, it will be louder than anything these people have ever heard before. It will be so loud; Helen Keller herself will remember where she was when she heard it!
.:: Rodimer grabbed the microphone from Sandow. ::.
Daniel Rodimer: Enough of the cute puns, Damien. These guys want to act like they are so hot and calm and collected. They want to act like nothing is wrong with the position they are on. In my opinion we are the beginning of the end for these two. I am sick and tired of being talked about as if I don’t matter. The two of them even just now had the nerve to talk about how we don’t belong in the ring with them. Did they forget how we hung with the current Tag Team Champions? Did they quickly forget that we pushed them to their limits on a night that they were at their best? I mean, if it weren’t for one move, we could be standing here tonight holding the tag team titles. We belong. We have proven time and time again that as a team, Brains and Brawn belong in this ring with any team EBWF can throw at us. Monday night the cuteness and the funny words are over. On Monday Brains and Brawn will prove that we are a stronger team than Miz and Dibiase. We will prove that without their leader in Styles, they are nothing but a chicken running around with their head cut off. [Rodimer paused.] Did you hear that boys? Monday night we chop the head off of what was once the best and most entertaining team in EBWF. But that is just the beginning. Because after that we go after the head of the VIPER!
.:: Sandow leaned in towards Rodimer. ::.
Damien Sandow: YOU’RE WELCOME!
.:: The crowd booed loudly as the lights went off real quick for a couple of moments. When the lights came back on, Sandow and Rodimer were gone from the ring and were nowhere to be seen. The only thing that was left was the clock on the big video screen. The only thing that could be heard was the ticking of said clock. The camera faded. ::.
.:: End ::.