Alternative NFL Playoff broadcast presentations have been all the rage in this wild card round. The Nickelodeon/CBS Partnership only grew stronger, with an actually very good game this year, and the brothers Manning (sans Cooper) will, for the first time, host one of their trademark Monday Night Football commentary sessions from their respective living rooms tonight. It makes sense that we could’ve done it differently, though, right?
My other new year’s resolution was to think about titles less. In this one I talk about my decade and a half long history collecting video games.
This is the trophy you’d get if you won one of these. I only have one of them though, so first come first serve. This is the only picture of it that exists. I know people are trying to claim ownership of pictures nowadays but I own this one bitch. It’s on the floor of my bedroom next to my bookcase
To begin with two acknowledgements:
Again channeling Len Gibbons to tell you what’s going on in my life and why I’ve been so quiet lately and what I want to do here going future.
And I thought the Earthquakes were bad! Two men, two horribly missed penalties, the only question? Which was worse:
I meant to write this over the last week but I needed to wait until the next game ended to really come to a conclusion. I’ve seen this before, where the Jayhawks nearly upset a team much better than them, followed by a week of almost optimism, followed by a complete, total drubbing to bring us back down. Everything I write nowadays tends to tread a very thin line between incoherent cathartic rambling and coherent cathartic rambling, and I feel that this probably skews more towards the former. Regardless, here are my thoughts at this point.
I come to the MLS All-Star game each year because it is a unique event. It’s unique in the American context because it goes out of its own league for competition, and it’s unique in the global context because other soccer leagues don’t do it at all. At least, that was the way it was until this year, when another league, the neighboring league against whom MLS always measures itself, entered the fray with an All-Star team of its own, turning what was previously a mid-summer exhibition where the reserve squad of some European team came in and played disinterested soccer against a squad of good MLS players primarily trying not to get injured for the final stretch of the season.
This game was not like that. This game was exciting and interesting, and I liked watching it the whole way through. THAT WAS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR! Continue reading
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