ECW One Night Stand or Tears to My Eyes

So, rather unexpectidly, I checked out the ECW pay per view "One Night Stand" at Silver City tonight with Lee, Erin, Jay, and his brother Tyler. All I can say is wow. It was quite possibly the perfect event. Maybe it didn't have the greatest wrestling of all time, but it had the most emotion I've ever seen in wrestling. I was damn near tears on several occasions. Each and every guy there put their hearts on their sleeves and showed their love for the company that gave them a chance, for the company that helped make them who they are, and for the company that never really had a proper chance to say goodbye.
The booking was tight and each and every loose end in ECW history was tied up in some way (with the only exceptions being the inability of Shane Douglas, Raven, Jerry Lynn, and Terry Funk to appear). The fans were given everything they had ever dreamed of during ECW's run, including the destruction of Eric Bischoff and ECW guys beating WWE guys. The fans in attendance were super hot, which always makes shows more exciting and the atmosphere oozed through the big screen into the audience (who clapped, cheered, and booed right along with the New York crowd).
Of particular note were the insane Mike Awesome/Masato Tanaka match, the crazy bloody and wild main event of The Sandman & Tommy Dreamer vs. The Dudley Boyz (which saw damn near everyone in ECW history show up) and the emotional Paul Heyman shoot. I will most definitely buy the DVD when released.
Being in the theatre it almost felt like I was there live... the goosebumps from The Sandman's entrance, the "Holy Shit!" chants... I don't know if the same emotion would've been brought up watching it later on tape... The ECW fan connection that I've always had was brought back. It made me think of when I traveled to Minneapolis to see an ECW TV taping live in 2000, of getting multi-generation bootlegs off ebay, of ordering US only action figures, of tracking down the elusive ECW magazine, of finally getting the DVD's, and seeing the excellent WWE DVD "The Rise and Fall of ECW." So many memories and so much of my life for the late 90's... As Jay put it; "ECW is so rock and roll." That is the truth... there will always be a place in my heart for the underdog federation that gave their all each and every night and now I have a new memory to add to the collection... That of a perfect sendoff. Kudos to everyone involved because you really got to me and each and every viewer.