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The day will surely come, my friend, when football will exist only in The Matrix. Why should humans risk serious injury and National Anthems by the Oak Ridge Boys when we can play the whole damn game on an Xbox? We're a step closer to that already, as LSU has revealed that its quarterbacks — Matt Flynn and Ryan Perrilloux — prepare for games by playing a customized Xbox game called the PlayAction Simulator.
The game looks and plays just like the popular Madden NFL and NCAA football games, though all the goofy stuff such as player celebrations, cheering crowds, mascots and bands have been removed. LSU and Tennessee were the first schools to use it this season and it went well enough that XOS expects to make it available to all its clients this year. The company provides technology to most Division I schools. "The video game is an excellent resource we have," Perrilloux said. "Whenever we hit a play, that play would automatically match up with the defense that we would see or blitz we would see. If you make the wrong decision it's an automatic interception or it's an automatic incompletion."
How did Bowling Green prepare for the GMAC Bowl, we wonder? Pong? Asteroids? This?
(Kudos to Every Day Should Be Saturday for the enhancement of our original Normandy Ned graphic).
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Comments
Are they sure it's not Perrilloux's counterfeit version of NCAA 08?
The Oak Ridge Boys are an institution!
I believe Bowling Green used Ball in a Cup.
someone put a body on Ned!
Thanks to JoePa, Penn State QBs are still playing tiddlywinks.
/get off of my damn lawn
@TheLou-Do: That explains the black eye.
Finally something that accurately depicts a terd falling into the toilet bowl.
Somehow, Chris Collinsworth is the announcer for PlayAction Simulator.
The hot new game of the season? Lou Carvallo's Putting Challenge.
No one's going for the obvious? Fine, I'll jump on the grenade...
Miami uses Grand Theft Auto: Vice City...
Notre Dame used faith this year. Next year: back to video games.
BG played with themselves...and lost badly, too.
I here the Minnesota Vikings are HUGE Leisure Suit Larry fans.
War as a video game -- what better way to raise the ultimate soldier?
/Kellen Winslow II
Hm. If they announce that Cool Ranch Doritos and fat sacks of sticky icky also make one a good QB I'm ready to listen to all offers.
though all the goofy stuff such as player celebrations, cheering crowds, mascots and bands have been removed.
Someone get a copy of this to the higher-ups at FOX, stat.
Upon hearing this, Bobby Bowden just dusted the dust off a box of Pong cartridges...
@Greek McPapadopoulos: I much prefer Bloodstorm.
@Phony Gwynn: But then how will I know when the fans of each team are cheering?
@TheLou-Do: Are you sure that didn't involve 2 girls with that cup, cus that's what that game reminded me of when I saw it.
NED! I still can't believe Ned couldn't even get into the SHOTY. Look at the courage!
@Phony Gwynn: So, no music by Bonerama?
Rats.
So if playing X-Box makes you a good football player, what does playing on my Virtual Boy get me?
So Todd Reesing prepared with A Boy and His Blob?
Any truth to the rumor that Chris Peterson dusted off his trusty Coleco Vision and copy of Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle?
@What Would Kornheiser Do?: Old.
"How did Bowling Green prepare for the GMAC Bowl, we wonder? Pong? Asteroids? This?"
Sir, I take contention to your blatant... ooh, I made a staircase!
@What Would Kornheiser Do?: Migraines?
Why is Martin Lawrence getting ready to charge the beach at Normandy on crutches while wearing a Florida International jersey?
@Stay Away From Oprah: Bonestorm. Sadly, Bloodstorm is a real game.
A real bad one, [www.mameworld.net]
@Camp Tiger Claw: So is a sanitarium.
It appears that my alma mater has been playing electronic tabletop football for the past, oh, decade. And all the fins on the bottom are set all the way to the right, so all the players go left together directly into the wall.
Oh, and the spring on the quarterback's arm is broken.
Why is Martin Lawrence on crutches wearing a Ned jersey?
/Done to death
@Decided Schematic Advantage: dammit.
The Minnesota Vikings prepare for their games with Leisure Suit Larry.
/sex boat jokes are still funny to me
So my Vols used this thing too? And you say it "went well"? Will next year's version also include such opponents as Cal, Florida, and Bama?
Grady Jackson prepares for games with Burgertime.
That's why I watch so much pornography. To practice. Yeah, that's it. Practice.
How do we know that life isn't really some simulation game played by alien race?
/blowin' your mind!!!!
I was wondering why two guys named Kurt and Jon were always kicking my ass at Bible Advenutres Online....
@Decided Schematic Advantage:
+3
@Farneyismycopilot: It's Custer's Revenge they play on their party boats.
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