On Cody Rhodes's What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast, Triple H confirmed that his famous July 25, 1999 Sunday Night Heat sit-down interview with Jim Ross, where he first called himself "The Game," was completely unscripted. The line came to him off the cuff in the moment.
Triple H on the promo being unscripted:
"I knew that promo with JR. I knew it when we did it, and I felt it. The line was pretty much off the cuff. You know, I've seen people take credit for, 'I wrote that script and I wrote that,' whatever. There was nothing written at that time. It was, here's what JR is going to ask you, these couple of questions. How are you going to answer them?"
On the original take including an F-bomb that was almost scrapped:
"I remember we did a take where I said the f**king game. And then they were like, that's okay. We're actually gonna show it from the other side where we don't see your mouth. It'll be all right, we'll beep. And I was like, okay. So if they think that's good enough, ...
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