url URL date not supplied pro football players are addicted to football games as a means of wish fulfillment by managing the team they can be free of the rule of their coaches and bosses maybe this explains the amazing success of the sims which on the face of it should be dull as hell while away your free time away from the office by simulating an existence as a shlub with a day job and a drive to acquire consumer goods on credit you d think it d be the last thing you want to do but it s not when you re a sim you can tweak your existence a smidge discover what life would be like if you took path a instead of path b try the alternate universe on for size the idea of football players playing themselves in licensed video games is neat and recursive like the episode of the simpsons when mr burns runs into krusty buying krusty o s at the supermarket and asks where he can find the burns o s it s always a trip carr says the first time i saw myself in a video game was in college at fresno state when i walked into a best buy store and some kid was playing with me that kind of trips you out a little bit for every NUMBER year old kid who spends countless hours in front of a television playing video games there s a group of NUMBER pound offensive linemen challenging each other at everything from madden nfl NUMBER to the action packed halo combat evolved link NUMBER discuss NUMBER _thanks lawrence NUMBER _ NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 