Well, here we are in final game of week two of the XFL season, and I write this at my kitchen table here in Japan on a Monday morning tomorrow as I watch the game on my laptop and write this missive on my laptop. It is amazing how much technology has allowed all of us football fans to connect and interact (for ill or will depending on how you read my ongoing Twitter battles with the right wing XFL media and spin doctors). Even more amazing are the content creators, and for this article I am focusing all of my love and attention on
Rick 8-Bit, the creator of the world’s first XFL video game, which is available for free at
TecmoBowl.org.
It is because of guys like Rick that football Twitter does not suck, for he, like me, is clearly a 12-year-old at heart, and in this world, we need so much more of that. The real-world sucks, but when we can escape back to our childhood fandom, even for a few hours, we can reset ourselves by revisiting the joys of youth. Such is the magic of Tecmo Bowl, for it allows us all, for free through PC emulation, to be a kid, or in my case, a 21-year-old college student, all over again.
