Bloggers note: If you wan't to skip my introduction jibba jabba scroll down to the bottom where I give you my top ten sports related video games of all time.

The over under is four. Four as in the number of days it will be before I stop using puns of my last name to title my blogs. Maybe I will catch some attention from the judges, but chances are I'd have a better chance of catching Anna Benson's attention. Yesterday when I began this blog I was sold on the idea of paralleling my writing to Bill Simmons. Ironically enough so is everyone else. I am sure over the next couple of weeks all of us [the contestants] will read numerous rants about sports movies, top ten lists, game diaries and so on - but it takes a true talented writer to create those interesting blogs with the witty humor while still remaining remotely coherent. So from this point on I would like to wish everyone luck as I try to use my humor and background knowledge in a unique way to win this contest.

Yes it's a longshot but the last time I checked the Bengals were playoff bound. Which reminds me. I never posted Chad Johnson's letter to Santa in my last blog. I could make the excuse that classes have gotten in the way but classes ended two days ago- sure I am at Michigan State but it isn't early April so there are no fires outside my apartment building. I guess a better reason would be that I played about six hours of college football 2006 with my roomates today. You know if I put half as much effort into creating unique blogs I think foxports would have hired me by now.

As I was saying... playing college football 2006 has become a unique past time of mine. I have owned every copy of EA sports college football since 1996 spanning three seperate game consoles. Call me crazy but for some reason I would much rather play college football than Madden. (Please hold your hate mail). So as a tribute to college football and its 10th anniversary of being in my video game system I give you all my top 10 sports video games of all time.

10. Excite Bike - For Nintendo : When the year is 1987 and you can build your own motocross track life is good. No need for fancy graphics, first person shooting, or online play- Excite Bike could keep me busy for hours. One thing that always intrigued me was the bikers striking resemblance to an awkward bird like creature. Nothing like a sub 16 bit system racing game to start this list.

9. Tecmo Basketball - Nintendo: Any game featuring the various colored floor the Orlando Magic played on in 1993 scores style points with me. Besides name one other game that Mark Blount had paint presence in.

8. Joe Montana Football 1996 - Sega Genesis : A pivotal point in my life was the day the instant replay feature in Mr. Montana's football game ruined what my brother and I like to call the Gunnells bowl. Each Christmas morning we would square off toting our newest football game. In it's 4th year of existance I was dealt a crushing defeat in the bowl leveling the series to 2-2. After a long third down conversion I attempted to gloat to my broha and play the instant replay over and over like a Black Eyed Peas song on a top 40 station - however the second time I replayed it Brett Perriman fumbled the ball. Yeah I know not only was it not an instant replay but I lost the ball and subsequently the game. Now I know how Jerome Bettis felt after the 1995 turkey day game against the hapless lions. Although the game gets major props because Emmit Smith could never be tackled. If you don't believe me go out and buy the game. Run back and forth up and down the field with No. 22 and you tell me who the greatest running back of all time. Chances are it isn't Napolean Kaufman.

7. Madden Football 1998: Playstation and Nintendo 64: Greatest of the Madden games because it was revolutionary for it's time. Franchise mode, dynasty mode, Jeff Fischer mustache growing mode. Just kidding about the last one. But seriously would that feature not make any game. Pick which mustache comb coach Fischer will use. Or what baggy sweatshirt Bellicheck will use. Or how many hot dogs Bill Parcells could eat. The possibilities are Kovayashi. I mean endless. The possibilities are endles.... moving on.

6. Jet Moto - Playstation: Some may argue that this game isn't a true sports game, but when I was 12 I could only afford one game with my playstation so Jet Moto gets the nod. Never did figure out what grapple meant though. Or how my Jet Skier could drive through houses - guess the drivers must have taken drivers training in the same class as Robert Traylor.

5. Mario Andretti Racing - Sega Genesis : Mario Andretti racing became a video game cult classic as my family played in endlessly in my grandma's basement. It was either that or boggle. Andretti could have made the top five slot but my thumb throbs to this day from having to hold onto the A button for 198 laps at Penbrooke Speedway.  Those five or so phrases never got old though. "GO EASY ON THE EQUIPMENT" .

4. Mario Kart : Nintendo 64- Sticking with the racing games Mario Kart remains one of my favorite games of all time. It falls to fourth because it involves no real characters besides Yoshi. I am determined that little tortoise slug exists, and I am fairly sure his name is Ashton Yobouty.

3. Blades of Steel - Nintendo: NHL 1993,  -

Sega Genesis: A three way tie has been implemented because I disliked hockey too much to devote 30 percent of this top ten list to sports played in Manitoba. Blades of Steel had terribly game play but the players entrance to the ice was unbeatable - it made we want to play hockey, or just skate around to some cool song like Eye of the Tiger. NHL 1996 and 1993 were both great games - 1993 makes the list over recent hockey games because recent hockey games didn't feature Bob Probert. Any man can play hockey, but it takes a real man to drive his motorcycle into a bank while drunk.

2. The College Football Series 1996-2006 spanning Sega, Playstation and Playstation 2: This series has controlled my life my last semester. It is the reason I skip classes, skip dinner, and will never get anywhere in life. Pro football fans will argue that Madden is the best and I am sure it is great however I cannot comment because I don't play it - I just feel college football has a unique comfort to it with some very interesting features. 117 teams couldn't be wrong. To this day I remember scoring 128 with Penn State in the 1996 Gunnells bowl, my life is defined by that moment along with the time I met George Karl at an Old Country Buffet.

1. Tecmo Super Bowl - Nintendo: This game cost me $65 dollars when I was in second grade but it was money well spent. I will never forget when Bo Jackson scored a touchdown a white guy would to a touchdown dance in the end zone. Or that when Ickey Woods got injured he would run out of the hospital with nurses waiving five weeks later. The unique graphics and clips of teams celebrating, and that goofy goofy music when there was a fumble will never be topped. Niether will that glitch in the game where you can zig zag down the field and never be caught, or play as Reggie White and sack the opposing quarterback every game. Great stuff. Especially considering it is the only way to get the Buffalo Bills a Super Bowl win.

Honorable Mention: Nintendo: Tecmo Bowl, Paperboy (does this count), Mike Tyson's Punchout, Bases Loaded 3. Nintendo 64: NFL Quarterback Club 1998. Sega Genesis: Madden 1989-1993 (when a player got injured an ambulance would drive onto the field running over the wounded), Triple Play 1999. Playstation: NBA Live 1998, NFL Blitz, Die Hard Trilogy (okay it was way too good to leave out - Yipeeekayay.). Playstation 2: Madden 2003, Fifa World Cup Soccer 2005, ESPN 2K5.