WrestleMania Will Be Seven Hours Long, and That's Okay
Seven hours of Mania (sponsored by Snickers!) isn't too much if you time out your WWE viewing Graphics Credit: WWE.com Last year's WrestleMania (technically 33 but unofficially "WrestleMania: The Big Bright Florida Sun") was the longest ever. The pre-show started at 5 PM local time, and then The Undertaker was swallowed up by the ramp just around midnight. That is seven hours. Seven damn hours. And with 13 matches announced for WrestleMania 34 (unofficially "WrestleMania: Also The New Orleans Saints"), the same number as last year's Mania, we are likely in for just as long of a haul. The glut of content produced by WWE is a perpetual source of hand-wringing. We complain that WWE is asking for too large of a slice of our lives to be devoted to watching their stuff. The trick is to just not watch very much of it. I haven't watched a full episode of RAW or Smackdown in well over a year, and folks, I am doing just fine. I watch most of the PPVs, I catch ...