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I like the idea of Bret doing a Team Canada angle in principle, but in reality (which is what we have to deal with) that would never happen, nor should it.
Rob already covered why it wouldn't happen with Bret. Its insane to compare lawsuits between millionaires to someone getting humiliated on live TV and then having his brother killed on another live PPV due to negligence by the company.
Heyman, you said that Owen wasn't forced to do the stunt, well in a lot of ways he was. Originally he was being booked in an angle with Debra and Jarrett where they wanted to make it look like Owen was having an affair with Debra. Owen didn't want to do that. He nixed another angle they wanted to do with him, but I forget the details. Then they came to him with the Blazer idea, which he felt he had to do because he could only say 'no' to Vince so many time before being in jeapordy of losing his job. At the time he was building a house for his family and couldn't afford to be fired (there was no guarantee that WCW would have taken him at the time).
If you do Canada vs USA that means Team Canada have to play heels. Even if Bret agreed to work that angle (which he wouldn't becaus ehe doesn't want to be a heel and he just doesn't want to be part of any angles) it wouldn't work, just like Flair doesn't draw as a heel. Poeple want to cheer him, and when they are told to boo him, they turn away. I think the same would happen with Bret, even to a larger degree just base don what has happened to Bret over the last 5 years.
It would also screw up the push of guys like Orton, because he would be forced into a sudden babyafce turn that he is nowhere near ready for. And there are too many issues between CDN talents or US talents that would have to be dropped for no good reason.
I think its a decent idea to put all the CDN guys on one show because that way you can run Canada with the RAW crew almost exclusively. I think thats a decent idea because it would create some sense of 'home markets' for each brand. So RAW would be dominant in Canada because of the CDN talents on RAW, but on the other hand Smackdown would dominate the Mexican boarder towns because of Eddie/Rey and Chavo.
So, you dont have to bunch them all up in a faction, you just have them on the same side, and have them be faces and heels just like the American guys. I think that is far more effective for the long run.
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