I went through a whole roll of toilet paper during tonights show. I bawled from the opening of the show, where they were all standing around the ramp, to the closing fading video, of Cena's shirt with the World Title resting upon it in the ring.
I knew I would lose it. How could one not? Eddie was a class act, a great talent, and quite obviously an inspiration to all. Life is so unfair sometimes. No one can tell me it was simply "his time" to go. Not at the height of his career, at a mere 38 years of age....not with so much love and life left in him.
To all those uber macho fellas who were going off about how real men don't cry or show emotions in that other thread some time back....I saw many many men tonight....big, strong, manly men - not weak, feminine, sensitive men....wearing their hearts on their sleeves and letting their pain, sorrow, and loss stream down their cheeks without shame. God bless them for letting the world know they too are human, and for reminding everyone that Eddie was not just an entertaining face in the ring, but a real man with real issues and a real family and friends, and a real big part of many many lives.
You will be missed more than you could ever have imagined, Eddie. Thank you for giving everything you had to us, for so long. You'll never be forgotten.