Now I see a lot of people online and in wrestling communities trying to overrate the old Snake with what they consider the "Best promo of all time" but in reality we the masses are pretending that the level of stupidity that Jake was throwing down made any sense
>Everyone over the years have attributed the "You wanna play 21? I've got 22" line as being a sign that Jake has a .22 Caliber gun, and that even if his opponent truly has the perfect hand he will not walk away the victor because Jake is vicious and will do anything to win. Truth is, Jake doesn't know the rules of Blackjack
>The line "Do you wanna play blackjack? I got two of those too" is believed to mean he has two actual blackjacks, a type of crude club used to bash people - once again, he has no idea of how Blackjack works. He's never used those clubs through his wrestling career.
>Finally the line "You wanna play Aces and Eights? I got too many of those" is probably the stupidest of them all; people try to justify this as a reference to the "Dead Man's Hand", said to be the cards that Wild Bill Hickok, a famous outlaw, was holding when he was shot dead. The idea here is that Jake is implying that he has led a trail of men who thought they could best the him, but as previously seen, he has no idea of how card games work - this is just more nonsense from Roberts.
It's time to face the facts, that due to being ballooned off his ass on enough drugs to kill a bull, Jake Roberts cut one of the worst promos in the history of the business.
