Game Over

Thus ends the football season for about 6 months. No, the Pro Bowl doesn’t count.

The Super Bowl was a SLOPPY affair. Billy Joel wasn’t terribly good singing the Anthem. 6 first-half turnovers? (By the way, the record for most turnovers in a game is 11, from Super Bowl V.) Indy missing a PAT AND a short field goal? Bleh. Chicago’s 2nd-half stupidity was disheartening. Despite the marginally close score, I was terribly disappointed with the game.

Prince’s awesomeness is immesurable, though. All Along the Watchtower, Hendrix-style? Only Prince. Proud Mary? Prince. And Tina Turner, of course. There was only one verse of Purple Rain, but it was tremendous.

I traded away NBA 2K7 (came with the 360) for this. I’ve started 2 modes – Franchise and Superstar. For Franchise mode, I’m trying to lead my Titans (8-8 in real life this year) to the Super Bowl that could have been. For superstar mode, I have created my quarterback and the Redskins drafted him. We’ll see how that goes…

Over the Christmas holiday, as a family we somehow acquired a metric buttload (a VERY scientific term) of Target gift cards. We had a couple of quick discussions as to what to do with the money, and were deciding between the XBox360 and the Nintendo Wii. More logical heads (ie, Angela) prevailed and we got the 360. It took about 3 hours to get the configuration right with all the wiring. It also took finally ditching the VCR and getting a real “switch” – partially pictured on the far left. How many gift cards did we get? Enough to pay for the “premium” console and a second wireless controller, and a year’s subscription to XBox Live Gold. The only thing we paid for out of pocket were the two games we bought.

Not pictured: A Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Entertainment System, and a Colecovision.