I'm a Titans fan so I was willing to overlook the man boobs, the Hershey's Kisses on the sideline, and even the plodding 3.467 yards per carry. But then, LenDale had to go and insult Tecmo Bowl.

I didn’t play in the ’50s, the Tecmo Bowl days,’’ White said with a smile.

A blight unto his house.

Seriously, Tecmo Bowl is being equated with the 1950's? I feel like I felt the first time a Playboy Centerfold was younger than me. Like the world I've known for so long is suddenly a very strange and sad place.

And that's not just because Tecmo Super Bowl taught me everything I need to know in life. Or at least 46 life lessons. Well, partly it is, but...still, I'm going to be mature about this. I hope LenDale White gets paper cuts for the next three years when he unwraps his Nestle Crunches. That or herpes.

Byner making a difference with Titans [Nashville Tennessean]

As you can see, it's pretty much the same game. It doesn't have official player or team names, but those are apparently pretty easy to switch. We don't have a Nintendo DS, but we assume the controls are similar to the original ones. Unfortunately, though: No Bo Jackson.

So, by this scientific simulation, expect a big day from Kevin Faulk.

Tecmo-Izing The Super Bowl [Armchair GM]

Above is the second half of the Giants-Buccaneers tilt; it's amazing how compelling watching the final seconds turns out to be. We are almost certain that will be more entertaining than the actual game.

Tecmo-izing The Playoffs: Wild Card Weekend [ArmchairGM]

I'd assume that a Tecmo Bowl Byron Leftwich would keep cycling through his receivers with the B button until someone sacks him.

(Apropos of nothing, know what other classic Tecmo game never gets enough attention? Solomon's Key. Further proof that Jews are great at solving puzzles.)

Tecmo Super Brett [Josh Q. Public]

The game is scheduled for release in 2008, and there aren't any details yet. At The Fanhouse, The Mighty MJD concerned that Tecmo Bowl will damage its legacy, Jordan with the Wizards style, and we think that's probably fair. His reasoning:

Picture a night of Tecmo Bowl with your friends right now. You'd put the game in, and for about 30 seconds, you'd be a giddy young buck. Within a couple of minutes, though, you'll say to yourself, "Really, this is it? I run in zig-zags and have just two different buttons to press?" Then one guy will leave because he has to go clean out his gutters or his wife will leave him, and another guy will pass out behind the couch because this is the one night of the month he's allowed to drink and he overdid it. From there, another friend will ask if he can turn the game off and watch Grey's Anatomy, and the one guy who does want to play, the unemployed stoner who has played Tecmo Bowl for three hours every day since 1988, will call you a sissy because you're saying this whole thing was a bad idea.

It's sad, but so true. By the way, if you're not reading MJD's new daily Debriefing column over there, you're missing out on one of the most beautiful parts of the American Dream.

Let's Just Let Tecmo Bowl Rest [The Fanhouse]

And then he coaches as one team against the other. (We do a variation on this with Madden 2007, except we let the computer play itself, which means we spend part of our day watching fake video game football players play against other fake video game football players.) The results are always entertaining, particularly because we now know what a Tecmo Bowl version of Fred Smoot looks like. Scary.

Right now, the Tecmo theme song is going through your head. Nothing to be ashamed of.

The Ex-Burgher's Tecmo Bowl Week 3 Preview [The Ex-Burgher]
Tecmo Super Bowl Repository [Knobbe.org]

From our old friends at Kissing Suzy Kolber comes this rather classic video of showing just how great Bo Jackson was on Tecmo Bowl. It's a quarter-long touchdown run. This almost certainly happened to us repeatedly as a child.

No Words ... They Should Have Sent A Poet [Kissing Suzy Kolber]