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...last blocking group vacation, beach football was almost unanimously booed down in favor of sunbathing after about 15 minutes. We were a failed inception of the Great American Bro Blocking Group. The Brblocking Group, if you will. That is, we were, until “NFL Blitz” came along...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Average Couch Potato | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...NFL Blitz 2002” is a video game ostensibly about football for the GameCube.  Having such outdated graphics, each player looks as if he were finger-painted with a steroid-inflated fist, and the style of play is somewhere between a WWE match and a street brawl.  It is the ultimate icon of man, and ever since I bought it last term, we spend hours each week playing it, sitting together amidst the pastiche of filth and tactfully un-disposed beer cans that is our common room, more satisfied with our masculinity than a preening...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Average Couch Potato | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...have grown added chest hair since buying “NFL Blitz,” I think. But the effects of the game on my blocking group and me have been more profound. The whole thing started like this: One day, as I often did in the beginning of fall term, I was peering into the common room in Gollum-like fashion from my doorway (in New Quincy one single, mine, sits alone next to the common room, while the other four are downstairs). Though we use it heavily on weekends, our common room was always dark and empty during...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Average Couch Potato | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...summary, our blocking group needed an institution. This leads us back to “NFL Blitz.” In “NFL Blitz,” you tackle someone by punching them in the face. In “NFL Blitz,” if you are succeeding, you get lit on fire; and if you are lit on fire, and then you leave the couch because you have to go to section or answer an e-mail, “NFL Blitz” will punch you in the face. So yes, “NFL...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Average Couch Potato | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...sport organization that doesn’t pay its officials a salary. Officials are part-time employees with regular nine-to-five jobs during the week. However, with professional football being as popular as it is, it is time for the officials to become full-time employees of the NFL...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson | Title: An Official Change | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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