| 29 December 2009
Put away your high powered gaming PCs, Wiis, 360s and PS3s! We talked sports games last night—tabletop, board-game style—with Keith Avallone, owner of a website called www.plaay.com. At Keith’s site, you’ll find simulations of everything from roller derby to indoor lacrosse to, soon, hockey. That was our guest segment on “The Knee Jerks,“ the weekly gabfest I co-host on Blog Talk Radio with Greg Eno, who's collected work can be found at the site for all things Eno, GregEno.com.
After talking “old school” sports gaming with Keith, Eno and I roasted the Lions (as usual), and wondered whether Drew Stanton has a future in the NFL—with the Lions or anyone else.
We also blistered the Free Press and its decision to run an “All Decade” team for the Lions, with such notables as Tony Semple, Joey Harrington, and Todd Lyght on it. The All Decade coach was Steve Mariucci! Amazing. (By the way, my written take on the Freep's misguided attempt at a Detroit Lions all-decade team, along with Facepalms, can be found at Mlive's "It's Just Sports".)
You also might want to hear Eno's last rant of 2009—a 15-minute rampage on the Indy Colts and their decision to bench Peyton Manning on Sunday. It’s among his best! In a role reversal, Eno has been cutting loose more and more on the show, forcing yours truly to become the "Voice of Reason!" Though I agreed completely with Eno's take on the Colts rolling over and playing dead against the Jets.
I called myself out, indirectly, in my pick of “Jerk of the Week.”
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Jan. 4: Big Ten basketball preview (OR January 11, we're trying to nail it down)
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