{"id":102,"date":"2006-01-07T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=102"},"modified":"2008-09-17T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T13:34:50","slug":"football-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Madden 2006: Football 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing Madden 2006, and I decide to check out &#8220;Football 101&#8221;.  I was hoping to learn some football and get a feel for the game.  I selected the option that has John Madden teaching you the basic Football formations and plays.  The computer runs the play, shows it to you, then lets you run it.  It&#8217;s a very low-key way to learn how to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>I try a simple play: HB slam.  The halfback is supposed to take the ball from the QB and run it up the middle. <\/p>\n<p>I start it, and the game runs the play on its own to demonstrate.  Except: it didn&#8217;t run the way it was supposed to.  The offensive line melted and halfback got pancaked the instant he touched the ball.  I sat there, dumbfounded, as the computer completely screwed itself. <\/p>\n<p>Then John Madden spoke up, &#8220;There. See how it&#8217;s done? Now you try it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nice one, thanks John.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing Madden 2006, and I decide to check out &#8220;Football 101&#8221;. I was hoping to learn some football and get a feel for the game. I selected the option that has John Madden teaching you the basic Football formations and plays. The computer runs the play, shows it to you, then lets you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}