Sports Video Gaming 101

Before I delve into my blog post let me float you this link for you to watch, so you can kind of feel the tone that I am taking this post in.

http://youtu.be/SjaPlwR-kmY

Okay, now after viewing that you may be thinking WOW. But the crazy thing is, he is a minority. His obsession with wrestling is not even shocking. Why do I make such a claim? Because I have seen people play sports video games.

I play sports video games. I admit that, I am able to separate not real Paul Pierce missing a lay-up from the real Paul Pierce. Sadly, some people can not do that though. The line of virtual reality to actual reality is so blurred that they do not realize the reason why they got sacked in Madden was because they did not hit the button to throw the pass.

The avid sports video gamer often utters such phrases as, "Ohhhhhhhhh pick that off!" "How did he miss that!" "Throw the ball!" "Shoot it!"

And they never utter such phrases as, "Ohhhhh that virtual player that I am controlling did not do the corresponding action that I forget to make them do!" or "Man, I am just not good at this game."

It is never the fault of said person with the control. If they are playing Madden and "Tom Brady" "throws" an interception. Well, quite simply he will not be receiving a Christmas card, because he just cost that person the game. They truly feel that way.

It never has to do with their lack of skill or pushing of the wrong button.

Is it easy for a person to get carried away? Well, yeah of course.

But there is such thing as "too much."

This has been presented to me through my college suite mates.

When they play Madden/NBA 2k11. They really think that are in the game. They think they are the game.

I do not get how they can so disillusioned between not real and real. Like when I play Rock Band, I just play Rock Band. Afterwords I do not pencil in plans for a 32 city stadium tour. I accept it for what it is, a game.

With them, no.

If they loose, well then LeBron deserves to die, because he missed that free throw in the third quarter. And Dwayne Wade shot it instead of passing it, and Chris Bosh just stood there not being important... Okay that last one is too realistic.

And who is to blame for this?

I blame the parents. I am kidding. I do not blame the parents.

I blame the big red truck complex. You know the one where they say men with tiny baby makers compensate for the tally whacker by driving a big truck.

I really feel people can apply this to video games. The people who get obnoxiously into are people who are compensating for genuine lack of skill in that sport.

Holy crap. I just became a philosopher.

If you are an avid sports video gamer and you are reading this, you are probably stewing and waiting to ask me the question of, "Well, you said you played sports games, you mean to tell me you do not get out of hand?"

Not really, sometimes I do exclaim a few obscenities. Sometimes I go 1990's and exalt an "In yo face!" But in the grand scheme of things I play video games because:

1.) I am a useless sports knowledge nerd. I play old sports video games. The earliest sports video game I personally own in MLB 2k7.
2.) I know I am a better General Manager than half of the GM's currently in sports. I like to waste my Summer days negotiating not real contracts with a team I do not actually manage, because again I am a sports nerd.

The only time that I got truly out of hand in a sports game, was in 2006. It was at Bill Coole's annual Birthday sleep over. Where we would play NCAA/NHL video games all night and morn. Bill always picked Texas, because they had Vince Young. ALL BILL DID was run the option. AND I COULD NOT STOP HIM. But then one game, that night of his sleep over I finally beat him, I picked Michigan State and I had a field day on him. And I got into it. Really into it.

But I still knew that it was a game.

For other people though, that is still a different story.

Well because, It's still real to them dammit!