We’re going to deviate a bit from the usual sports talk today. Well, sort of. We’re going to deviate and then relate it right back to the Super Bowl!
Get pumped, people!
EA’s Madden 11 has made it’s prediction for Super Bowl XLV. For those of you not familiar with the Madden franchise, it’s a yearly videogame release. It’s a realistic football simulation that allows you to control your team from a top down perspective. It’s an impressive core game, but is one that is slightly underwhelming in it’s yearly release if you’re a gamer.
However, the game is programmed with an impressive set of real life statistics that allow for match simulations and predictions. In fact, previous iterations of Madden have successfully predicted 6 of the last 7 Super Bowls. Creepy, eh?
So, here’s the offical verdict. According to Madden 11, the winner of the Super Bowl will be the Pittsburgh Steelers. It’s simulations
have the Steelers narrowly beating the Packers in the last part of the game.
So, I’m gonna have to agree. Steelers for the win. And I for one would like to state for the record that I welcome our electronic overlords and I have no plans to resist anything ever.
Have you ever gone to your kids’ little league games or their middle/high school sports games and sat next to a big talker. Odds are their kid is on the team, and truth be told their kid isn’t that great. But their parent is great at saying everything that is going wrong with the other team, the referees, the coach, and the other kids on the court/field.
This person is the most annoying person alive.
Chances are that they have never played on an organized team and they think their child is some kind of prodigy even though they are really just mediocre. They are yelling at what “should” be happening when in reality, their solution is rarely plausible; and the “bad” call the ref just blew was actually legitimate.
My suggestion? Sit as far away from this person as possible. They yell for no reason, and they look naive in the stands blabbing on about a sport they only know about because they have signed up their kid since they were five years old.
Parents should sit back and watch the game, and allow the coaches and referees do their job. At the very least, parents should save their kids the embarrassment of having that parent who goes crazy in the bleachers. parent’s should let the kids play and have fun, and not discuss matters they have limited knowledge on.
The NFL MVP award is pretty prestigious. It should go to a player who has truly excelled, stood out not only in their position, but in the league as a whole.
Should this person be a quarterback? Not necessarily.
Yes they are the most publicized member of the team. They get the praise in a win and the chastisement in a loss. They are arguable the fulcrum on which the team depends on.
But let’s just be honest, the quarterbacks this season have not been too hot. Yes they put up the numbers and they make some incredible plays but compared to years past they have been performing pretty poorly.
Michael Vick and Tom Brady are supposedly the front-runners in the MVP race. They are also the starting quarterbacks on their respective teams for the Pro-Bowl game.
They are phenomenal athletes, especially Vick who is a double threat on the field. But Vick has not started in every game and some argue that to be the MVP you need to be out there playing every week for the rest of the season.
Maybe it is time to put a defensive player up there. After all, last year’s Heisman trophy went to a defensive player; and it was well deserved.
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