If you have an xbox or playstation buy Madden and try learning to play the game it a bit. The formations, plays, and strategy are pretty much all real. You'll learn about different formations, routes, zone defense, etc.
Agreed. I really didn't understand football much at all until I started playing Madden with a group of friends. They helped me out in the beginning by answering questions like "why are there two different colored lines for the QB routes?" (it's an option play). By learning the game of Madden, I learned the game of football and now have an appreciation for the sport.
Interesting that this didn't occur to me. An artifact of being just a little too old, I think. (In the Atari 2600 days one did not play sports games for the knowledge...)
What's sad is that I read a whole
article about how much hard work it is for sports-game programmers to get all this stuff perfect and I still didn't get it until now!
