![]() season, I tried three officially licensed N.F.L. For the last 20 years or so, the Madden NFL series from Electronic Arts has been the leviathan of sports video games, but even it has left me cold.īut this week, as football fans geared up for a new N.F.L. Tecmo Bowl came and went in the late ’80s, but I couldn’t be bothered. In grade school my friends passed around those green electronic Coleco games, but I thought they were dumb. It just so happens I’ve been playing video games fairly seriously for about the same amount of time.īut somehow I have never been able really to enjoy football video games. My team lost that day, but I’ve been hooked on the N.F.L. (I liked the wings on the Eagles helmets.) I distinctly remember walking onto the front lawn alone in dejection as the entire neighborhood erupted in cheers for the Raiders’ 27-10 victory. And I didn’t fit in with the sports culture either because I was the only person around with the temerity to root for the Eagles against a California team. I had just turned 8 and was living with family in Orange County, Calif., the heart of Reagan country.Īs an outspoken kid from Woodstock, N.Y., I didn’t exactly jibe with the local political culture. Super Bowl XV, pitting the Oakland Raiders against the Philadelphia Eagles, took place five days after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. I’ve been a fan of the National Football League since Jan.
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