It’s official: Steelers will beat Colts
Christ, and I thought I had too much time on my hands.
They don’t play games on paper, but they do play them on video games. I know I know, I’m totally sick of big sporting events being simulated by video games as well, but this Steelers-Colts preview over on Ex-‘Burgher is worth a look because a.) it was done with Tecmo Super Bowl (the greatest video game EVER) and b.) this guy spent way too much time on this for it not to be noticed.
Since our boy did this simulation with an old-school game with outdated rosters, he either is some total computer freak that rebuilt an updated version of the game or he went to the trouble of retouching the screen shots. So instead of Jeff George, we get Peyton Manning.
That’s not all.
He also provides a quarter-by-quarter breakdown with Pittsburgh commentators calling the action. Unfortunately, the guest announcer is (ugh) Chris Berman. However, he does come up with some offensively clever new nicknames for Berman:
Touchdown! Manning hooks up with Marvin “I have less personality than Terry Schiavo” Harrison!
Winners: Steelers (49-16)
Losers: Us
January 12th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Defense on Tecmo is awesome. Yo dont’ choose coverage, you just guess the play they are gonna run. If you choose correctly, you KILL them. It’s fun.
January 12th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I want to marry this guy. He is a crazy Steelers fan and he knows how to use a completely offensive, yet well-placed, Schiavo joke. Dreamy.
January 12th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
:cough: Steelers are gonna lose :cough:
January 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
It looks like Bubby Brister is going to have a whale of a game.