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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 26, 2006 19:43:13 GMT -5
The NCAA tournament is still the most exciting TV there is: a single elimination tournament of the top 64 college basketball teams from all over the US, seperated into brackets, and then its win or go home. As you widdle the field down to the Final Four you get to see dim-witted, bubbly-breasted college cheerleaders bawling like little babies when their team gets knocked out. You see middle-aged coaches with unbelievable comb-overs literally having multiple heart attacks right in front of your eyes with each ticking second of the clock. You get controversial calls by the refs, you get 5 foot 10 inch tall white guys making last second shots...and on top of that you get all of the back stories about this player coming up from the ghetto, or this coach's wife who is dying of Ass cancer, or a team mascot who is mentally challenged. And you also have the school bands, and all the college kids with pints of brandy hidden under their coats and with their faces painted in their school colors. You have alumni who who have bet their entire savings on whether some 18 year old dopesmoking pimply-faced kid makes a last second free throw or not--and you have the entire nation involved in office pools, where they can put in five bucks and win 200 if they can pick the most winning teams...And it all takes place during a month in which this great land called the USA experiences its last gasping breaths of winter and first budding moments of springtime...ahhhh, the ritual of it all--gotta love it!
So put that in your pipe and smoke it you World Cup Soccer dweebs!
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 26, 2006 22:49:45 GMT -5
Anyone know where I can get me that steven colbert medal of audacity!
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Post by dolly on Jun 27, 2006 1:47:37 GMT -5
You really are not bothered about making friends here, are you?
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Post by Ryosuke on Jun 27, 2006 4:15:19 GMT -5
There's a soccer video game called Winning Eleven that we used to play a lot in our college dorm (I played England all the time - I don't know anything about soccer, but I liked a lot of English music so I figured I'd go with that team). We would hold tournaments every once in a while and bet money.
I nominate that as the Best Tournament in Sports.
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Post by dolly on Jun 27, 2006 4:47:31 GMT -5
I'm terrible at footy video games. Too much multi-tasking for my little woman brain to handle.
I stick to being an TV arm-chair critic.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Jun 27, 2006 12:26:17 GMT -5
Winning Eleven is basically repackaged and marketed in the west as Pro Evolution Soccer. It's the perfect sports console game and, imho, pisses all over EA's FIFA series. Great call Ryo!
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 27, 2006 12:42:26 GMT -5
Aah, yet another Lunkhead-chic board.
Self-professed audacity, all dressed up and with nowhere at all to go.
Where's my yarn hat with the panels made of MGD cans?
When I wear that thing, I motherfuckin' RULE dude!
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Post by pauledwardwagemann on Jun 27, 2006 16:17:17 GMT -5
Anyone familar with Crash Team Racing? It's geared toward little kids, but me and my wife once played it almost every night during the winter of her pregnancy. It's actually a pretty cool game--you get to shoot missiles and shit at each other while you are racing. I'm really not much of a gamer at all though.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Jun 28, 2006 12:29:31 GMT -5
Not played CTR. Me and the lads used to pull many an all-nighter with Micro Machines though back in the day, especially the first PS version.
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