WWE '13

I'm sitting here enjoying WWE '13's attitude era mode. The mode is this year's "career mode" as opposed to the Road To Wrestlemania mode that has appeared in the past few games.
I gotta tell you, this game is ruling my life right now.
All the memories of the Austin/McMahon feud, the sudden but meteoric rise in popularity of the rock, the Monday night wars, the 3 stages of Foley, the brothers of destruction, ect, ect, ect.
It was, without a shadow of a doubt, a very entertaining time in wrestling. A time when it was cool to watch the WWF and WCW. A time when Tuesday morning in Canada meant you stayed up as late as you could watching both Nitro and Raw just so you could be in the conversation on Tuesday.
Reliving this era in professional wrestling at a time when I'm having a hard time enjoying the product both TNA and WWE put out really fires the passion back up and makes you feel like you want to be a wrestler again. These years, the attitude era, is where it all started for me. It's why I have a singlet, knee pads and, boots collecting dust in my closet. It's why I was driven to spend hundreds, no thousands of dollars chasing a dream.
Pop culture was just littered with wrestling between 1995 and 2000. WCW and WWE went for it and in the end, WWE won. Boundaries were pushed, hardcore wrestling was born, story-lines took the center stage and, if only for a while wrestling was loved by almost everyone.

I'm really enjoying reliving these moments from such an important part of my life. If you loved wrestling when WCW and WWF were battling it out then you really should pick this game up.

Back to the game.

The Bills in Toronto Series

I'm sure by now you've heard it a few times. Eric Wood, the center for the Buffalo Bills, expressed how much he dislikes the Bills in Toronto series. If you haven't heard it yet: check this out.

So, before I spill my opinion let me make this very clear: I'm a big Bills fans living in Toronto and I love this city.

I agree 100% Eric. I strongly dislike the Bills in Toronto series. I was very excited as the announcement of this series. I even attended the first 3 games.

Here's why I don't like the Bills in Toronto series:

1. The Price. Simply put, the price is insane. Tickets start at $48 (now that prices are reduced) for nose bleeds but quickly go up to $95 in the upper bowl! The most expensive ticket is $225.00. I spent about $200 going to a Bills game this year in Buffalo and that included my hotel, gas, ticket, beer and, sausages for tailgating. 
2. Toronto is not a Bills city. I wish that it was, don't get me wrong. When these games come around you see Steelers, Dolphins and, Patriots jerseys all over the place. I really have never felt that Toronto is a Buffalo Bills city. 
3. As a result of #2, the in-stadium atmosphere sucks. When the Bills score there is no "Buffalo Bills shout" with the crowd. There's very little noise at all. As a result of that, the poor Bills have absolutely no home field advantage. It's just a neutral site game. 
4. Game day experience. Out-of-stadium experience if you will. When you head to Orchard Park it's like entering a whole new world. The town is shut down, there are footballs everywhere. BBQs are cooking everywhere you turn with people washing them down with beer.Everyone is there for a good time and they are there to be your friend. It's a community. Nothing like that exists in Toronto.

Now don't get me wrong. I strongly believe that the NFL could thrive in Toronto, that is if we had our own team and an NFL stadium! As it stands today Rogers is doing nothing but hurting Toronto's chances of landing an NFL team by doing this. They pad the attendance with free tickets and they still can't fill the place. It's a joke. It's a NFL game in a baseball stadium, nothing else at this point. 

I'd love to hear some feedback though. Agree? Disagree? Let me know.

Danny Califf

TFC picked up defender Danny Califf in the re-entry draft today.
Yup, the same Danny Califf who TFC had all but acquired last season in a trade, which ended up being cancelled because Danny said he would not report to TFC. The reason he gave was that he was not interested in playing for a team outside of the USA.

The tattooed defender was brought back to MLS in 2010 as the captain of the upstart Philidelphia Union. He ended up at Chivas USA last season after the TFC trade fell through but he was no longer in the plans in LA.

Should be interesting to see if he'll report to Toronto this time around.