I am a selfish NFL fan and to me, personally, the college football playoff is the apocalypse. While the NFL season just begins to take shape in September and October, college teams are busy playing do or die games: lose one, and it's all over.

See, but this is boxing. This is a sport where the closer the contestants beat each other to death, the "better" the fight, in the eyes of most.

But that seems to have subsided.

I'm a statistician by trade. Don't quit your day job at your store.

I played perhaps 5 total hours of Nintendo games before Melee, and as of now, my time spent playing Melee likely doubles or triples my total time on any other game.

Fox's in-game graphics have gone back to sucking. In the middle of the 2011 season, Fox finally started providing SCORE ALERTS on the bottom crawl any time someone scored in another game, which is important if you're like me and are far more interested in the scoring crawl than the game you're actually watching.

What was the later part of the game like? Did rival factions snowball into superpowers for you to compete with, or was it just a matter of stomping out numerous small empires?

Just wait until he appears in the CFL. ESPN couldn't buy those rights fast enough.

This entire X360/PS3 generation has been a disaster for Madden, in my opinion.

It's generous to suggest that Koscielny's second yellow card was even a foul. And I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said (except being a Sox fan!).

Is this still a thing? Given their careers since the zenith of this fight's hype, hard to believe that Pac could win even a round against Mayweather. People that know boxing tell me that Alvarez is legit, too.

As a huge fan of the original games, I can't understand why they chose not to go with the original voice actor, Stephen Russell. He WAS Garrett.

It will be the peripheral high priced players they will always have on their squads along with younger guys like Guidetti. In present day, they'd have done this with the likes of Adebayor, Maicon, and/or Tevez rather than sell them for 30 cents on the dollar. When the club actually launches, the guys you mention could…

Right, everyone I mentioned moved on since. But this is the point: If you were Man City would you rather sell these guys for 30 cents on the dollar, which they did, or use them to grow the new club when it's up and running?

Well it's convenient for Man City in a way, as they always have high priced guys in their squad that don't contribute because they were replaced by new big money signings. If NYCFC kicked off today, they'd probably be featuring Adebayor, Maicon, even Tevez, who surely wouldn't pass up a chance to get playing time on…

The teams are investments in their eyes, but again the return shows up outside of the balance sheets of the clubs themselves, and instead in tourism, state owned businesses, and the like. Also it helps that, in the case of Man City/NYCFC, they get a huge boost to public opinion, despite the recent human rights…

It's not about winning anything. Manchester City wasn't bought by the Abu Dhabi royal family for love of sport or competition (the owner has attended exactly one game to date). It's about gaining favorable public opinion towards their country, tourism, and the associated businesses (i.e. Etihad). Paris Saint-German…

That's the point I was making with my original post, though. If NYCFC loan in, say, Sergio Aguero, Man City can put all but $30,000 of his salary on their books, so he technically wouldn't need to be a designated player. What's to stop them from building an entire squad in this manner? And if MLS prioritizes growth…

I agree with you completely, I dislike that other leagues see the success of the NFL and decide that a salary cap must be good for their sport too.

Good to know that MLS cares more about the league's popularity than its competitive balance.