-- The WWE site has an article on Vince McMahon's $1 million giveaway at this link. To clarify, the sum of the total giveaway over the next few weeks will be $1 million, not $1 million every single week. WWE.com plans on posting further details regarding the contest as soon as they get them.
-- Vince McMahon's million dollar giveaway isn't something that's never been done before in pro wrestling as it's been done two other times. As a matter of fact, on the July 28, 1997 episode of Raw currently airing on WWE 24/7, a million dollar contest is being hyped for the SummerSlam 1997 pay-per-view. In two backstage segments, Sable and Sunny are shown handling several dollar bills in front of a lengthy case of one million dollars. The contest was misleading as the "winner" only got a mere chance to win one million dollars. During the SummerSlam pay-per-view, the winner got on the phone and had to play some sort of matching game in order to win the money. The person only had a 1 in 25 chance in winning, and lost. Also, back in September 1999 when Eric Bischoff was getting really desperate and pretty much throwing anything against the wall in hopes of a ratings increase, he created an idea to run a contest on Nitro that would award a viewer a million dollar prize if they could sort through clues that would be announced weekly through Nitro. However, the contest was abruptly cut off in a cost cutting move as Bischoff was removed from his duties as President of WCW the very next week. The contest was never mentioned again on WCW programming.