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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Madden Memories

Posted on August 4, 2009 at 11:43 AM.

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My first Madden experience came in 1992. I had been dating my wife for a few months, and for some certain circumstances that I won't get into where we both needed a roommate, we began co-habitating. I was going to college, she had already graduated from college and was putting her business degree to work as a manager of a music store. One evening, she brought home as a surprise for me a Super NES and Madden. From that gesture, two things occured: the first was that the Madden video game would become a yearly ritual for me, and two, this girl went from a girl I liked, was living with due to circumstance, had just become the girl I began getting serious feelings (there were other things but for dramatics let's keep to this).

From that edition of Madden to the current date, I have purchased the newest rendition every year. Some years I have loved, some years liked, some years loathed. I tolerated the SNES and Genesis versions; though not real football, it was better than the NFL Challenge game I had been playing on my old 286 PC. It wasn't until the first PS1 edition did I began liking the game. The like turned to love with the introduction of the PS2 versions, however, the love turned back to tolerating in 2003 when I began dabbling with 2k's games; the first year I tried anything else. When 2k went bye bye, and Madden swept into the newest generation of consoles, I actually began loathing the game.

This year, I am counting the days until release. From the demo it looks similar to other games from the recent past, but there is just something there that is getting me excited.

Gosh, I hope I am not disappointed. A yearly ritual that could actually turn into something special, again. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

What Drives Me Nuts at Operation Sports

Posted on August 2, 2009 at 11:16 PM.

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1. Immaturity. The constant, unnecessary arguing gets old. Grow up some of you, or quit acting your age. I see more maturity among my third graders.

2. I hate the guy that asks for a thread to be locked when he has nothing to do with the discussion or the flow of the talk really isn't that bad. Move on and leave people alone.

3. It is than not then, they're not there, and you're not your. Plus don't write like you're texting. The butchering of the language.

4. Moderators. I know this is a private site and I am not entitled to first amendment rights, but a lot of moderators must have been picked on adolescents. They abuse their power, and they're rude.

5. The dudes with gawd awful amount of posts that act as if they are gods. I guarantee in my early 20's I wouldn't have had any posts; too busy drinking beer and chasing girls.

6. The biggest: Disrespect. The way some people comment, if done face to face would probably not be made, or result in a punch to the face.

Operation Sports is a great place, a place I visit numerous times daily. A place I have met some great people: Jim416, Knight, RudyJuly, Autumn Wind, Pappy Knuckles, Dlwlfpack, Bigdgp2, avrbas, (a good moderator) WWharton; but for every one of these guys there are 50 guys that are just not cool. There, I got this off my chest, I feel better now.