Droppin

I decided my 11 year old is now old enough to participate in the Midnight Madden Madness tradition with me.  He was on his best behavior all day long (I wish Madden was released everyday to keep that going).  For the second straight year, I have been the first to purchase the game at our local Wal-mart.  There were only 10 of us there mind you but still first nonetheless.

When we got home, our first game was Raiders vs. Redskins in the Super Bowl.  Lots of story lines here: Raiders vs. Shanahan, Jason Campbell faces his old team, could Donovan win the big one for DC?, could the Redskins get payback for XVIII?  Final result Raiders 35 – Redskins 7.  The game is very nice.  I don’t think I love the new Gameflow feature but the presentation and gameplay of Madden11 is fantastic.  Hard to get use to the lack of a turbo button though.

I still love Madden but it is harder to find time to play and since Seven retired from Madden last year, the appeal has somewhat diminished.  However, playing with my new protege, my son, Madden is still just as fun as ever.  My son will log more time with this game than me today, so it feels like the torch has been passed on successfully to the next generation and I’m okay with that.   Happy Madden-oliday to all Maddenites old and young!

Think Lebron’s decision was a big deal?  Wait till you see Bill Simmon’s…

Or not.

Seriously, did we walk into the marketing department and say hey we want a new brand but we really liked what we had 20 years ago.  Any chance we could use that but change it from purple to navy blue so that all of our fans who haven’t bought merchandise in the last 20 years can’t just break out the old stuff and call it good?  I got news for you, that’s not retro, that’s lazy.  Its like they had someone design their new image from the Chris Creamer message board…not that there is anything wrong with that…

To make matters worse, if you can (thanks B-Rob), they are keeping the “Mountain” logo as a secondary logo and updating it with the new colors (which is now the 4th different color variation on the same logo, aka LAME!!!) and let me just say it looks horrible.  I couldn’t find a good picture of this, probably because nobody wants to look at it but here it is in all of its navy blue, green and yellow glory on a new T-Shirt…

WHO ARE THE MARKETING GENIUSES THAT CAME UP WITH THIS!?!?

Go Jazz!  Seriously go, get out of here!

but darn it if this game doesn’t make me long for yesterday, if only it had the NFL license to complete it.

First off, thanks goes out to Sneaker News for the info and Pics.

Start Saving up your pennies for June 2010, cause Jordan brand is about to drop the GOATS:

No Varsity Red here, its all Infared just like the originals.  I feel bad for everyone who bought the suede/varisty red VI’s that came out a little while back thinking that it was the closest they would get to the originals.  Of course if history tells us anything its that this pack will retail for at least $300+

LINK

Well thats up to you.

Apparently EA and Doritos have teamed up to allow the fans to decide who should be the cover athlete of Madden 11 this fall. Click on the link below and you can vote for Jared Allen, Drew Brees or Reggie Wayne. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of defensive players on my Madden cover and I’m not sure Reggie Wayne deserves it over Brees who has had a great year. Then again, I’m not sure I want the curse to be on Brees seeing as how I won’t Fantasy Football with him heading up my squad this season. Decisions, decisions…

http://www.doritoschangethegame.com/index.html

For the 4th time your MVP ladies and gentlemen…is Peyton Manning.

It was hard not to use the “MVPeyton” headline again but by now even the slowest among us has thought up that witty title (I think I used it when he won back in 2008).  All kidding aside the 4th MVP is something special.  Peyton has now won more MVP awards then anyone else in NFL history.  So where do you put him now along side the alltime great QB’s in the NFL?  If (ahem “when” the Seven good sportsfan year is still in effect until the Colts loose) he wins another SuperBowl this year and has a few more good years in him he has to be considered one of the top two or three QB’s ever right?

Grats Peyton, and I’m not just saying that cause I got a man crush on you or anything…

Oh in honor of our MVP I decided to post a few of my favorite pics of Peyton:

President Peyton

Leg-Guitar Playing Peyton

Insightfull Peyton

And last but not least (don’t hotlink it again or I’ll take it down)

Peyton Vs the Bears!

+1

Okay its a few days late, I’d like to say that its late because I have spent the last three days celebrating the New York Yankees 2009 World Championship (thats 27 for those of you scoring at home) but the reality is that the same night our fearless heroes brought championship home to the bronx I came down with a nasty case of the flu (no I don’t think its full blown swine flu but I may go as far as calling it Piglet) that I am still battling.

Anywho a day or three late and a dollar (or a few hundred million for the Yankees) short but I just wanted to congratulate them on a job well done and a relief to finally win again after our little dry spell.  27 championships, thats basically 25% of the championships since 1900.  1 in 4 people, does it just totally suck to be a fan of any other team?

And if you are keeping track, here is another reminder of how my 2009 sports fandom has gone:

NCAA Mens Basketball – UNC Tarheels National Champions

NBA – LA Lakers World Champions

MLB – NY Yankees World Champions

NFL – Indianapolis Colts 8-0….??? Lets just say if your a betting man put some money on the Colts baby!  (Seven and dropping can not be held responsible for any monetary losses or otherwise from following my advice)

(*you’ll notice no NCAA football team listed.  My two favorite teams aren’t exactly lighting the world on fire and originally I thought that my mojo wasn’t going to work for everything this year however I realized that my mojo doesn’t apply to fake sports that don’t crown a real champion with a playoff.)