The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

Monday morning notes

- It's a funny thing to watch a Packer game where they shut out the other team 26-0, and still think that they played a pretty poor game.  13 penalties for 130 yards, 5 sacks allowed.   Just ugly.  The defense looked great, but the offense... ugh.   Still, a win is a win.  On to Cleveland.

- The Vikings pulled out another game late yesterday when the Ravens missed a Field goal as time ran out that would have given them the win.  I was really surprised to see how badly the Vikings D played in the 4th quarter.  They've been dominant all year and just shut down in the 4th letting the Ravens move almost at will.  It was crazy.

The one game that I would love to see this year, can't happen until the playoffs and that's the Saints and the Vikings.  Both teams look like they're just toying with the other teams in the league at this moment... and they don't get to play each other until the playoffs.  That's a bummer.

- I got beat by Jonah's fantasy team when he didn't start two players... and still scored 112.   Bummer.

- FIFA 10 shipped from Gamefly today... unless it's stolen from a mail facility... I should have it by the end of the week.  I liked the demo, but you can never tell from those.  Plus, it's not like I'm the futbol fan here...

- On Saturday night I was sitting and watching the Yankees/Angels game and I had a revelation.  I really didn't care who won.  I know that I'm supposed to hate the Yankees because they spend more money on their team than anyone else... but I realized that it just didn't matter.  Would I have liked the Angels to win?  Sure.  A split in the first two games is always better than 1 team taking both games.

What I came to realize that is that so much of my sports fan persona is based on "hating" other teams, when it just doesn't matter.  What got me about this was when my daughters said to me the other day that they 'hated the Vikings' when I realized that there really isn't a good reason for them to teach them any sort of hate... I'm going to try and just enjoy the games for what they are, and that game Saturday night was a good game.  I just wish that it hadn't ended on an error.

Now I just have to try and undo the stuff with the kids.