Comments (0) Sorry about the shaky camera, those boxes are annoying to open. If anyone actually likes these I may try to do some more, depending on the response. I might actually polish them in the future.
If your looking for a simple Board Game of Football, this is it. The rules can be explained in a short amount of time, and all aspects of a regular football game are there. Simply the Defense picks one of three colored dice. Each colored dice relates to one of three plays that the offense may call, a run, short pass or long pass. After the offense announces their play, the defense rolls their dice to see how they effect the offense. The offense then rolls three black dice, the total which tells them how well their play went. Normally they then roll a certain number of white dice to see how many yards they gained. There’s markers for the score, timer, time outs and first down. The playing field has holes for the pegs from goal line to goal line on each yard.
The game is really easy to explain and catch onto. If you don’t like rolling dice, then this one might not be fore you. But really, if you enjoy football and even if you only have a passing interest in football this is a fun game. You can play a full game just like a pro game,or you can start off in sudden death for a quick 15 minute game. The aid cards that come with the game help to teach the game in a short amount of time.
Expansions and releases from the website allow you to add real teams to the mix. Just as an example, where the generic cards might lead to a result of 3 yards in a short pass, the Colts card might be a 6 or an 8 yard gain because of Manning.
In the end Pizza Box Football is relatively cheap and seems well worth its low price. Anyone with a passing interest in football and board games should give this a try.
So I’ve been a fan of the Islanders since the 93 season (When I was all of 12 years old). To this point it’s still the highlight of my following the Islanders. When I moved in with my current roomie, it was during the Flyers run behind Biron to the Conference Finals. It was amazing, as the Flyers basically turned around one of the worst teams in the league the season before to one of the final four. It’s amazing that teams like the Devils and the Red Wings have been good for so long. The Blackhawks took one shot at rebuilding (once their penny pinching owner died) and managed to make a cup contender. Yet since 93 there have been quite a few rebuilding efforts by the Islanders.
GM: Don Maloney
Began: When Maloney traded for Kirk Muller, trading popular center Pierre Turregon. He proclaimed that the league was heading towards a period of Defense first, and that defensive forward Muller was an improvement over recently hurt Pierre.
Ended: When Maloney was fired because Muller refused to play for the Islanders.
Pros: We did get Eric Fichaud
Cons: Everything else about Maloney. Also this opened the door for mental midget Mike Milbury
GM: Mike Milbury
Began: When Milbury was promoted to replace Maloney. He promised a five year plan which would have us in Cup Contention by 00/01.
Ended: When Milbury ran out of patience and traded Bertuzzi and McCabe for Trevor Linden to “Win Now”. He also fired Rick Bowness and put himself behind the bench. The team proceeded to collapse and miss the playoffs.
Pros: Nothing wrong term. Anyone from this rebuilding/period was traded or dumped.
Cons: The win now mentality also included the trade of Berard for Potvin and other short term deals.
GM: Mike Milbury
Began: The trading of Linden for a 1st round pick in 99, the first of 3 such picks added to the Islanders pick that year.
Ended: Take your pick, either the deal of Conolly and Pyatt for Micheal Peca or Chara and a first rounder for Yashin.
Pros: We did get 4 first rounders in 99, considered one of the all time weakest drafts.
Cons: Once again Milbury lost patience and dealt a bunch of youth for Vets who were just good enough to win a handful of playoff games. Worst of all the Isles are still paying for Yashin.
GM: Garth Snow
Began: When Nolan was replaced with Scott Gordon, DiPietro couldn’t recover and Ryan Smyth decided to go elsewhere.
Ended: Not yet
Pros: Garth has shown patience so far and the ability to find surprising FAs. Home growns Kyle Okposo, Josh Bailey and John Tavares, along with surprise pickups Matt Moulson, Mark Streit and Rob Schremp have show potential.
Cons: None yet
So in 17 years of watching the Islanders, they’ve announced rebuilding 4 separate times. That means on average every 4 years there’s a fresh group of players who are finally supposed to lead us to the promised land. This might almost be more re buildings then every team in NY during the same time line combined. Although the Mets with their “Generation K” might come close. Here’s to next year!
I have a lot of friends who went to college and are just buried in debt. They can’t find jobs to even make ends meet, let alone paying off college loans. I’m talking about friends who can’t even find a job in their field, have taken min wage or crap jobs and are paying almost everything they make towards their loans. So when I saw this article listed as one of yahoo’s top new stories, I took a read. Although her circumstances were different then my friends, you could see how easy it is to be over your head in debt when you graduate.
Reading that article, you can’t help but feel bad for the girl. It was an odd combination of things along with mistakes that have put her 100K in debt. Until you get to the last paragraph or so. Suddenly you find out she’s currently making 2,300 after taxes a month. Her rent is 700, her loan payment is 750 a month. So that means she still has nearly 900 bucks to play around with after everything is paid. Not only that, but she is deferring payments by going to night school.
This has got to be one of those situations in which you take an important subject (college loans) and put the worst possible face forward on it. There are lots of people in worse situations out there when it comes to college loans. People who wish they were making 900 dollars a month after taxes. People who wished that after paying their loan payment that month they had 1600 dollars to spare. This girl is absolutely ridiculous. She doesn’t need help from anywhere, she just needs to learn how to budget.
Personally, I consider the Tea Party movement people to be a joke. Although I didn’t mind Ron Paul, who was intelligent and had only the best thoughts for the Country. But out from his revolution has grown a branch of direction less people lacking his leadership and instead following Fox News. Their banners at protests are nearly identical to Fox News talking points. People interviewed at the rallies tend to quote Fox News or question Obama’s birth certificate. The most amazing thing to me is that while the Tea Party Protests have barely managed more then a small outing, the Peace Protests before the start of the Iraq war managed 10 Million people worldwide and were ignored by the same Fox News.
What really amazes me though is the relationship between Micheal Moore and Fox. In the weeks and months leading up to Farenheit 9/11 Fox News and the NY Post took the front line ranting that Moore was a current day Joseph Goebbels. Apparently he was a fascist propagandist who wanted to destroy America. I’m still amazed to this day that Moore never sued the Post for slander. We now know today that Bush lied when he told us Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Moore was right to be against the war. Thousands of Americans and countless Iraqis died so Bush could finish his dad’s job. Let’s also not forget that Haliburton (VP Dick Cheney’s former company) was given the contract to rebuild all of Iraq before the war was over. Most of what was pointed out in Fahrenheit 9/11 have shown over time to be true.
I’ve read Stupid White Men and Threats From An Unarmed American,and it’s amazing to see how much the Tea Partiers and Moore agree. In both his books and in his short lived TV Shows Moore pointed out that Corporate Welfare was really costing America too much. He had pictures of the most wanted CEOs who took the most Government handouts. These corporations held local communities who depended on them hostage, threatening a move to Mexico or elsewhere if they didn’t get their way. The worst of this could be seen in Rudy’s “revitalization” of Times Square in which he gave ten and twenty year long tax breaks to incoming businesses. This of course led to the Budget problems post 99 especially once tourism dropped off.
The Tea Partiers are also for voting out all incumbents. The belief is the atmosphere in Washington has lead to them all being corrupt and non-representative. To make matters worse, both parties are simply opposite sides of the same coin. Once again they would find agreement with Micheal Moore. In protest of the amount of unchallenged congressional incumbents he ran trees in thirty six districts in which the incumbent was cross endorsed. He also spent a chapter of Stupid White Men arguing that the Democrats and Republicans should combine to form one party for the Rich. Then hand over the keys so a real opposition party could take over that would represent the rest of us.
Finally, in Threats from an Unarmed American, Micheal Moore takes a shot at lobbyists. He lists representatives who are so totally indebted to Lobbyists that they vote 100% of the time for the Lobby. He rallied against the Lobbyists who are exerting undo influence of what should be a representative government. The Tea Partiers too have come out against Lobbyists who run Washington. Sometimes it’s scary how little money it takes to buy a congressman or a senator. Ted Stevens destroyed his legacy because he wanted a porch and a BBQ Grill. I remember Vito Fossella, the congressman for the area I grew up in. He would have anywhere in the range of ten to fifteen million dollars in his campaign coffers as his opponent struggled to break five hundred thousand. Most of those funds were from corporations who he would commonly vote for in support of their requests.. He would simply lie to people when he met them face to face while voting in favor of every corporation. One of his most underhanded things was when he voted against school funding. When said funding meant that a local football team wouldn’t have new equipment, he went out and spent his own money buying the team new equipment. Of course he ignored all the classes that had been cut.
So time and time again, Micheal Moore and the Tea Partiers find themselves on the same side. Which is incredible considering that Moore is a Fascist propagandist trying to destroy America. I think it simply points out that the “outrage” of the Tea Party movement is nothing new. People have been pointing out the inequality of the system and the unfairness for the last twenty years. I think some groups out there would be better off considering that then believing that the Tea Partiers are some spontaneous group of voter outrage at Obama.
