- Dan gets quote of the day from me…

“wow, I didn’t know Bill Belichick played Madden online.”

Going for it on 4th and 2 from your own 28?  Ballsy…. It didn’t work and they end up losing a 13 point lead in the last 3 minutes of the game.   Crazy stuff.

- Lost my Madden league game to loyal blog reader Joel tonight, but it was a fun game.  He tolerated my needing to pause the game due to the fact that my youngest ran up to me saying she had to pee.  Fun game, even with the pee break.

- Nice to see the Packers decided to show up for their game against the Cowboys.  I wouldn’t have thought that they could pull out a defensive effort like that after the last game against Tampa Bay, but there you have it.

- Add that with the Badgers moving up to #16 in the BCS standings after their thumping of Michigan.  I don’t think they have a chance at a BCS bowl (both Iowa and Penn State would have to lose,) but they have put together a nice season and have a good chance at a double digit win season.  Those things don’t happen very often at Wisconsin, so it would be sensational to see.

- I keep going back to Torchlight and Dragon Age.  One annoyance that I’m dealing with in Torchlight is the fact that I’ve done so many of the ‘side missions’ that I’m just waltzing through the ‘normal’ levels.  Boss battles don’t even really generate much damage on me and I haven’t died yet… and I’m on level 29 of the game.   A bit disappointing, but perhaps that’s just what you get on the normal difficulty.

Dragon Age is still a lot of fun as well.  I’m about 8 hours into the game and just left the first city.  There is a ton of content to work with.  I did like how the DLC is worked into the game though.  A person comes up to you and talks about a place where he’d like to you to go, and then it prompts you (as one of your conversation choices) to see if you’d like to download it.  I’m not going to be doing it, but it’s nice to see it integrated into the story in that way.

- Just scanning through the Black Friday Ads for Best Buy and Walmart and there are quite a few quality video games and Blu-Rays to choose from.  Being able to pick up Gladiator and Braveheart for $10 seems like a great deal to me.