Jerry Glanville, former NFL Falcons turned PSU Vikings coach, has a video game. That’s right, back in the heyday of the Sega Genesis (when Glanville had a little more clout) Electronic Arts released Jerry Glanville’s Pigskin Footbrawl, which chronicles–and no, we’re not making this up–a couple of warring kingdoms in the seventh century that decide to battle it out with a game of (what else!) good ol’ fashioned American football.
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-Article comment by T.J. Snodgrass on last week’s Vanguard article “Back in the groove.”
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Jerry Glanville, former NFL Falcons turned PSU Vikings coach, has a video game. That’s right, back in the heyday of the Sega Genesis (when Glanville had a little more clout) Electronic Arts released Jerry Glanville’s Pigskin Footbrawl, which chronicles–and no, we’re not making this up–a couple of warring kingdoms in the seventh century that decide to battle it out with a game of (what else!) good ol’ fashioned American football.
Of course, since it’s set in the middle ages, the opposing team’s players can be slaughtered with fashionable weapons of the time–namely spears, spikes and swords. So it’s realistic, at least as far as medieval football games go. And you can even summon a troll! Nothing says American football like a troll, or drinking the blood of your enemies.
As Glanville says on the box, “It’s football with an attitude … a bad attitude.”
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On a cold, dark and rainy night on campus (so, basically every night), walking around the mess of heavy equipment, metal poles and gravel that is the construction at the Urban Center, might feel more like being on a harsh, dystopian set piece from Blade Runner, rather than your favorite hometown university.
Well, maybe not. But it doesn’t change the fact that the construction is messy and hard to walk around.
From the ashes of the former PCAT building will rise Portland State’s new Recreation Center, a gleaming monolith to all things physically-oriented on campus. For you athletes, the center will house, among other things, two new gyms (one for floor hockey or indoor soccer), a three-lane track, weight training and exercise facilities.
The center is also slated to be packed with meeting space and classrooms, retail and restaurant outlets, an auditorium, the Portland city archives–hell, even an office for the chancellor of the Oregon University System, Oregon’s public higher education organization. With a list like that, it’s no wonder the university wants this mini-metropolis to be the new center of everything on campus.
Want to find out more? Check out the Student Rec Center Open House today at Smith Memorial Student Union, room 296, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., or visit www.campusrec.pdx.edu.
