Choice Blog

My choice blog for this week I have chosen to write about a recent game of Madden between Brian Stoldt and I. Brian plays as the Miami Dolphins and I am the New York Jets, but the teams have been drafted through a fantasy draft. Some of Brian’s top players include Calvin Johnson, Ben Roethlisberger, Jimmy Graham, and Ahmad Bradshaw. As you may have noticed, Brian’s only top players are at the skill positions, and his offensive line is a joke, which partly contributes to me whooping him every time we play, including twice last season, and in the playoffs, and more recently last night in week two of the regular season. The New York Jets, on the other hand have built their team around a young youthful offensive line, which is really the motor that runs the team. They have balance throughout their entire, which is a direct tribute to their head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, special teams coach, and general manager, yours truly, Mike Steffan.  In order to be successful in Madden, you must be willing to take some chances and risks every now and then, even if that means going for it on 4^th and 2 from your 8 yard line. You can either get stuffed, and put your defense in a deep hole,  with their backs against the wall, or you can exploit Brian Stoldt’s lack of defensive coordinating skills, and break a 92 yard touchdown run, much like I did last night.  Team Stoldt had a few choice words for team Steffan after that particular run, and even threatened to quit the franchise. Regardless of what he may say of threaten to do, I’m 2 and 0, and he is 1 and 1, and still remains in the franchise. Team Stoldt talks a big game, but when it matters most, he doesn’t perform. Nuff said.  

Resolution

This past year, I thought long and hard about a new year’s resolution, and finally decided that I would give up one of my favorite and most beloved foods, ice cream. As we all know, I used to have a little bit of a weight problem, and giving up ice cream was a big step in the right direction to a healthy lifestyle. After ice cream came chicken wings, pizza, candy and all of that good stuff. Add that with all of the offseason football training I was doing at the time, and I found myself in the best shape of my life, and have yet to eat ice cream in over a year now.  Now, with this new year finally upon us, I have once again taken some time to think up a good resolution, and have come to a decision. For the year 2012, my goal is to get less angry when I lose on Xbox, and try to control my anger a little bit better.  Over the past 5 years of owning that popular gaming system, I have been through 5 controllers, 8 headsets, and two different rechargeable battery packs. Let’s just say, I have a bit of an anger management issue. This change, if successful, l will not only save me money, but it my entire family and neighborhood will no longer have to put up with the sudden shrieks, groans, and smashes, which is always a good thing. I plan on doing this by when I feel a spurt of anger coming on, by setting my controller down on my bed peacefully, and leaving my room ASAP before I can get ahold of any of my belongings to squeeze or smash. Then I will take a walk downstairs, grab a glass of water, and just get away from it all.

Winter Break

My holiday break for the most part was pretty laid back. I mostly stayed home at night, and played xbox late into the night. The latest I was up was 5 o clock am playing Madden. I then went on to sleep in the following day until 2pm, and I felt like a lazy slob the rest of the day. I hate that feeling, but that’s pretty much just how Christmas break goes.  Last Thursday however, I joined Brian Stoldt and some friends, and we spent a couple hours in the new indoor trampoline center, Skyzone. I was a bit apprehensive at first when I walked through the front doors to find 9 and 10 year old boys and girls as far as thee I could see, but that feeling quickly vanished as the activities began. There were trampolines on all of the floors and walls to bounce off, and a giant foam pit, which was one of my favorite parts. You would get a running start on the trampolines, stomp as hard as you can, and thrust yourself through the air, and do twists and flips as you crash the foam below. The jumping part was really fun, but you had to pay a price getting out, because there is nothing to grab on to, and if you had short legs, like Nick Foss did, it was even more difficult. But besides the foam pit there was my personal favorite aspect, and that was the dodge ball. Dodge ball is fun enough on a gym floor, but put it on trampolines, and then you get greatness. I was able to showcase my surprising elusiveness and agility, and was one of, if not the best at dodging. Scratch that, I was the best dodger. Brian Stoldt never got me out. Nuff said.