10-04-2021, 10:45 AM
(10-04-2021, 12:34 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: 3? Who inflicted such misery on you at such a young age?
I liked Tigers (all cats, actually) a lot at the time (still do, lol, but fish have been my animal of choice since I turned about 11/12) and even though the only team I really knew were the Cowboys (due to my dad's fandom), when I went to play as Dallas on the original John Madden Football, on the Genesis (the very first console version of the game), due to Dallas being the worst team in the league in '88/'89, they weren't on the game at all! So my uncle (who owned the Genesis) suggested that I play as Cincinnati, since I liked Tigers. And thus, a fandom was born! lol
I learned to tie my shoes when I was 6 (1995) and watching sports highlights started when I was 4ish. For some reason, I always remembered those two players (and Boomer; Boomer was the first Bengal I was aware of and was my favourite player ever, until Whitworth), thus when I got my next Madden game (Madden '98, in 1997), to play as those two guys was AWESOME in my young eyes lol.
It's why McGee's my favourite TE ever (and probably our 2nd best TE ever, after Trumpy, IMO) and Copeland is my favourite DE ever, after Dunlap and Michael McCrary (though until he retires or somehow, magically comes back to us, I'm indifferent on Dunlap. McCrary's just a boss, period).