And yeah...the crowd tonight has a lot of weight on them. They have to boo Batista, drop random yes and DB chants when something is happening, and be sure to throw some 'NO's out there to coincide with anyone other than the Shield or Taker being thrown high into the card without Bryan's involvement.

My guess? They certainly get it. They just haven't honestly decided exactly when and how they're gonna get to DB as champ anytime soon since they've screwed themselves with Batista, Brock, etc. And they probably have too much pride to just hotshot the titles over to DB and say 'fuck it, here's your guy, he's the champ, and here he is wrestling awesome matches for the last 30 minutes of the show AS CHAMP. We'll do all of this Authority stuff a little bit down the card. Buy the fucking WWE Network! And we'll cancel our awesome plans to reunite Evolution with Reigns instead of Flair and give them all titles...just for you, damnit...just for you'.

Jimaveli

>Had amazing seats in the 100 section which made the night
>great, but here were my takeaways
>
>- Amazing crowd, from what I've read online the crowd came
>through loud and clear all night which was great. I was at the
>WM where Rock fought Hogan and I'm not sure which crowd was
>more hot. I lean to this one because it was smaller and lasted
>all night, not just that 1 match.
>
>- It was not on TV, but the NAO got a huge pop. I know people
>probably are not pleased with them being champs again, but
>they provided some fun and you know they can work a crowd.
>They made the dark match exciting which is pretty rare, I'm ok
>with them getting a run.
>
>- Daniel Bryan is over as fuck (everyone knows that) but I'm
>talking the bar I was at before the show couldn't go 5 minutes
>without a yes chant, the arena was full of them pre show. It's
>basically the new Woooo which used to fill the arena all night
>long.
>
>- The title match chants were great and I'm glad they kind of
>ruined the match, I do feel like Orton and Cena actually put
>the best match they've had together on last night, but it was
>too late because they were boring for the first 5 minutes and
>lost the crowd. The "you both suck" chant pretty much sums up
>the problem with this feud.
>
>- During the Rumble, everyone in the arena definitely thought
>Bryan was going to be #30. My friend and I personally didn't
>put it together that we were getting screwed until after
>Batista came in and we realized Batista, Big E and Rey were
>all left. (Really hard to keep track of this at the live
>show). I don't think most people in the arena really figured
>it out until Rey came in #30
>
>- I felt kind of bad for Rey who became the 2nd biggest heel
>of the night after Batista, wasn't his fault, but at that
>point the crowd erupted and I hope that came through on TV.
>Was basically just boo's, No chants and bullshit chants for
>the final 10 minutes of the show. I was glad to see the crowd
>turn so hostile
>
>- Everyone knows this already, but Reigns stole the show last
>night which was probably one of their goals. The crowd being
>so behind him was much more an anti Batista stance, but I'm
>glad that came through on TV too.
>
>- They played Batista's music loud as hell when he won,
>definitely trying to drown out the boos.
>
>Overall, this was almost the best rumble PPV in a really long
>time and they ruined it with the Rumble. The whole world got
>to see them refuse to give the crowd what they wanted, and I'm
>excited to see how they handle it tonight. Tonight's Raw crowd
>has a big responsibility to keep what happened last night up,
>if they just become a normal crowd then nothing will change.
>If they act like the crowd did the night after WM when Bryan
>lost to Sheamus and the Yes chant really took off and spilled
>into Raw then we may see something happen.