During a recent television broadcast of 60 Minutes, Michael Vick told James Brown, “It’s the only way I made it through prison...believing in God.”
When I mentally committed to taking the keys to the Detroit Lions for a season upon purchasing Madden 2010, I was thinking, "If I was going to make it through this, I too, would need a great deal of help from the man upstairs."
After all, I’m investing 45 minutes of my time, for 16 games.* The main reason I play those 16 games is to earn a reward of possibly playing for the Lombardi Trophy. If I don’t make the playoffs, you could say I wasted my time with the respective team.
Then again, you could say I wasted my time playing a video game anyways. But that’s a conversation for another day.
I’m a guy who loves a challenge: I moved to New York, unemployed, with $2,000 in my pocket. I graduated from college with a degree in Print Journalism, during a time when newspapers contribute as much to society as the Early Bird Special.
But after playing three games with the Motor City Kitties, and going 2-1 with two quarterbacks, I’ve...
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