Extra Points: Off-Week Gaming
Posted Oct 15, 2009
It was, of course, quite the oddity and novelty for these Echo Boomers, these football players from Generation Y who primp for a game with iPod buds in their ears and wield lifelike football players in 3-D on their Madden NFL games. But there it was on a rainy day in the players' lounge of the Kenan Football Center: a circa 1968 Tudor Electric Football game.
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