This week was the shortest and most straight forward edition of Dojo Wars yet, probably to make up for last time’s excessive run time. It worked out well, as there’s no insane long multi-person matches, just straight up action, without a lot of fluff. There were two title defenses though, and “Alphabet Guy” finally debuted with a steady name, which kind of bums me out, as we were just hitting the complicated letters. I wanted to know what “V” would have been! My Guess? Vivacious Victor. Followed by Wistful William, Xtreme Xavier, Youthful Yancy, and Zesty Zach. But alas, those were not to be.

The WWE series of games finally makes its way to the newer platforms, but we might have to wait until next year for it to be something truly worth playing.

If there’s one thing everyone has in common, it’s the experience of going to school. We all have had a whole slew of teachers in our lives. Most of them were perfectly serviceable and followed their lesson plans just fine. Some of them sucked terribly and should never be allowed near children. But there were a few who excelled at the position, who went above and beyond, and whose wisdom will always stick with you. This list is dedicated to those teachers who never get the recognition they deserve.

When you hear the word “Captain”, what do you picture in your head? A sailor? A pirate? Maybe an airline pilot? All perfectly valid choices. But there are many types of captains, not all of them involved with ships. Well, OK, most of them are, but not always.

This week was a mixed bag at the old Dojo Wars with a lot of strange goings on. The ref split his pants almost immediately in the first match, there was a 40 minute 10 person elimination match in which no eliminations happened for a half hour (during which my camera battery died), and oddest of all was a Scepter on a Pole match fought over a trenchcoat. You can’t make this stuff up.

So the Superbowl was last weekend. Being from Philly, the land of the epic choke, I’ve never been a big football fan because we pretty much always sucked. But I’d jump on the bandwagon in a minute when we were winning. I used to be pretty big into fantasy football, but I had to take a step back, because it’s a lot of work to have a successful team, and I realized I was watching games for teams I don’t care about just to keep tabs on my players, and that’s not really fun. Plus even with all the work researching who to play and who to pull, I still sucked at it and always was last in my league. My mom thought football was too violent and I’d get hurt, so I never got to play as a kid. So how do you enjoy football when you don’t watch the games or actually play?

Movies. That’s how. There are a ton of great movies that feature football. Here’s a list of some of my favorites.