Thursday, October 25, 2012

NFL Films and Tecmo Super Bowl, together at last

It's not quite Nuts and gum, but when I heard NFL Films was doing a 30 minute show on Tecmo Super Bowl, I was excited.  It first aired a couple days ago, and I got the chance to see it today via this link

If I was the one allocating the coverage, I would have spent 20 minutes combined on the game's nuances and current and past NFL players talking about the game and what it meant to them...and 5 minutes on the "Madison Tecmo" tournament and its (fellow) nerd participants, instead of vice versa.

That said, things I loved: 

*Roosevelt Colvin's mention of the "immediate nose tackle dive for sack" trick - and the specific showing of the Tecmo player Bob Nelson as the one pulling it off.

*A few minutes of Christian Okoye playing and commenting on the game.  How awesome is this man?  I just want to hug him.  (And hopefully not bounce off him in the process.)

*Tournament player Chet, with the Brad Muster neck roll.



*Tournament player Mort licking the under side of his NES Tecmo Super Bowl cartridge.  After blowing on them so many times in my youth (which probably never did anything), is it possible that licking them was the real way to get them to work best?  Or, is that a non-functioning cartidge, and he's just licking it for luck?

*Mort saying "Sonofabitch," with the last portion of it bleeped out using a Tecmo sound effect

*Gameplay: A Chiefs FG attempt is blocked, and kicker Nick Lowery picks up the ball and blazes down the field to score a TD. 

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A little clumsy, but whatevs

Probably no one else notices this kind of stuff or cares, but...


It appears Yahoo's official abbreviation for "Brooklyn" regarding the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, will be "Bkn."  As long as it's using three letters contained in the word there's no wrong answer, but "Bkn" just seems like a weird, clunky choice.  It's like abbreviating Chicago "Ccg," instead of "Chi."

I think I'd have gone with "Bro," or at worst, "Brk."