星期五 [ 2010-1-15 10:48:47 | watches1013 ]   This football atmosphere is electric PORTSMOUTH - Don Smith is a little nervous about this. Granted, he asked for attention. Smith is putting on a national electric football tournament - the Seawall Brawl - this weekend at the Olde Towne Waterfront Holiday Inn to benefit a fallen police officer s fund. He wants people to come play, watch and donate. But a while back, a hot-shot sports magazine writer attended the national electric football championship at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And the guy basically framed electric footballers as Trekkie- like misfits who can't get dates. Smith, a 42-year-old telecommunications worker married to a Portsmouth police officer, didn't appreciate the portrait. Especially because Smith was and remains one of the country's best electric football "coaches." Not "players." You or I could be mere "players" by sitting down to a modern version of the 60-year-old tabletop game, in which tiny plastic football men careen around a vibrating metal "field." We could line them up, flick a switch, watch them go and have some laughs before - speaking for myself - we'd be bored out of our skulls. But being a "coach" is entirely different. A top coach "knows" his players, says Smith's friend through buzzball, Bill Porche, in from Los Angeles for the tournament. That is, he knows how he has legally "tweaked" the base of each player to "run" a certain way when the current comes on. He knows game strategies. He scouts tournament rivals for tendencies, trends, and to identify their best players - yes, their best actual pieces of plastic. A great coach adjusts on the fly. And, Smith says, he puts his play makers in position to make plays. Smith's little guys make a ton of them. Square off against Smith without your "A" game and you're toast, Porche says. Gucci Fake It's that intense out there. "Once you get into this, it's so addicting," says Porche, a 38- year-old Realtor who makes and sells collectible, fold-up electric football game boards. "You and I can be best friends, but when we're on the board, it's showtime. We're not friends anymore." That's the true portrait of the electric football hobbyist, Porche and Smith say: a bonded brother who loves football, electric or otherwise, and delights in meeting and matching wits with others like him - no computer required. Some people collect stamps. Some preserve and polish memories. What's so strange? Smith and his son D.C., a recent Wilson High graduate bound for Notre Dame, hand-paint their players as vintage Dallas Cowboys teams. Porche coaches up his favorite team - the '79 Houston Oilers - when he competes. To him, Porche says, electric football is a land of imagination where "the big stars never die." OK, Smith knows what you're thinking. He knows you, like himself, might have played a rudimentary game as a child with vibrating action that truly was random. And that it's not necessarily easy to grasp the concept of designed plays executed by little plastic men. All Smith can tell you is drop by the Holiday Inn to see for yourself. "Remember what cell phones were like when they came out?" Smith says. "That's electric football. Fake Ulysse Nardin Watches The bottom line is, what we had as kids is not what we have now." The boards are comparatively high-tech, but the poi Other articles: http://www.qlxxg.cn/Blog/View/?376 http://blog.0760.com/?uid-47275-action-viewspace-itemid-19189 浏览(300) | 回复(1)
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