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Marino would have fit like a glove in Pittsburgh.

As would I, without question. Really, it needs to be done.

Oh yeah it can absolutely be done with a massive time commitment. Would take about an hour per issue operating at top efficiency. There's no way to avoid all the manual labor. Then when it's done and distributed for free, you'll have hundreds of "armchair experts" coming out of the woodwork to nitpick and complain about the finished product.

That would be a shit-ton of work! Figure on a scan taking 1 minute per page. I have about 400 Apter mags and had this grand idea of scanning each page and creating PDFs of each issue. Made one and decided it's not worth the time .

Is Darren Young a good wrestler, or, does he have top-level potential?

Where is the book offered and do you think it's worth buying (if you've read it)?

Yeah his QB was Unitas. Only Chuck Knox and probably (definitely) Schottenheimer would stick to a ground game. The Chiefs '83 QB busting is predicated on them getting destroyed by Macovic and Gansz. Those guys would probably have worked out if they were still in one piece mentally and physically by the time Marty got there. Raw pass attempts means dick without context. Steelers were running out the clock in the 4th quarter, and in the 3rd quite often, in 1978. Clayton and Duper weren't high picks. On and on it could go. The idea that Noll was incapable of adapting an offense around Marino is what I mainly disagree with. Marino would have fit like a fucking glove in Pittsburgh.

Shoot me a fucking list of topics that I am permitted to enjoy, then.

Shula wasn't exactly a pass-happy wide-open coach before Marino either, aside from a couple of Griese seasons late in Bob's career. Noll could've and would have adapted, like he did when the league opened up the passing game starting in 78. Steelers took advantage and passed more, becoming fairly "wide open" compared to previous years (as did most teams, hell by default all teams across the board were going to get more passing yards...not the best argument to make but they weren't pounding it up the middle with Franco while throwing 18 passes a game after '77). Whatever the case, if Shula could adapt to Marino, Noll could have as well, and Marino would have fit like a fucking glove in Pittsburgh. Aside from Elway, Marino, and Kelly, whichever QB the Chiefs took would have busted. Eason or O'Brien would have been the Blackledge of the group, and Blackledge would have been O'Brien or The Guy That Got Destroyed in Super Bowl XX.

This is my favorite thread of all time.

Awesome cover. Highspots seems to have stepped up their game with the "eye candy". Can't wait to watch this.

I chalked up my struggles with EWR/TEW to something I was doing wrong. Like, if I can't get a good match out of Bret and Austin, I have no business playing the game. I suspect that is still the case rather than any game design flaw. I love the game in theory, but just can't play it. FOF - Flawed NFL sim to be sure but the best of a shallow pool. I guess I've just gone blind to the AI oddness. Troubling that the most popular American sport has basically ONE quality sim. Surprised there isn't anything out there that is halfway comparable to OOTP, or EHM 2007 for that matter. My ultimate game would combine team building features of FOF with the Strat O Matic game tacked on for playing actual games. As far as wrestling games go, was I the only one that liked the WrestleMania Arcade game? Had it for PS1 and played it in the arcade as well. I always had success with Yokozuna. Doink swung a big oversized mallet and Undertaker had bats or something that shot out of his hands. Seems like when you'd hit Razor Ramon, razor blades would fly all over the place. Shit like that.

I never figured that out. FUCK, it was so frustrating!

I think Kelly vs Marino is a wash, all things considered. I personally like Kelly better, though the numbers disagree. The Chiefs passed on Marino, among others, in order to select Todd Blackledge. Marino went 27th due to perceived (or legit) "attitude problems" and scored something like a 4 on the Wonderlic. Damn, he would have fit like a glove in Pittsburgh who passed on him since they had the great Mark Malone ready to step in. Hindsight is a beautiful thing but it's pretty crazy that 20+ teams passed up Marino.

Here's a download link for TEW5 Freeware. http://www.greydogsoftware.com/downloads.php?id=48

Damn, what a great cover. Have seen this guy's/girl's work in other places. Anyone happen to know who the artist is?

Rams-Pats was also the first clearly obvious scripted Super Bowl, but that's a losing battle and I should just shut up and quit dropping that line here

I quit the game cold-fucking-turkey when, after a match between Bret Hart and Steve Austin it said something like "The match was poor due to the two wrestlers not having any chemistry".

Showed this game to my buddy at work (from UK, has been here since '99 and his wife won't let him buy the "Soccer TV Package" or whatever it is, and he really misses his EPL). He bought the game a week later and IMMEDIATELY took 3 weeks of vacation in order to play it. A year later, he's still totally hooked.

Don't mean to drag this away from wrestling games, but since OOTP was mentioned... Anyone here play Front Office Football? The game desperately needs an update, it looks terrible, but for my money is the best (only?) pro football sim. PFS isn't there yet IMO, but is one to keep an eye on. OOTP is so awesomely deep that I can't get past the start menu...

TEW/EWR LOVE this game in theory. In practice, it takes 3 hours for me to set up a game and the whole thing is just too complex for my tastes. I'll stick with the LOW card game to play out fantasy booking scenarios.