Before Madden there was Tecmo Super Bowl, and a superstar runnning back who could not be tackled.
There are moments in life that make you feel old. When a teenager addresses you as “sir”; when a favorite TV show appears on Nick at Nite; when your favorite team signs a superstar who’s a decade younger than you.
In my case, it’s when I try to play a game of Tecmo online.
David Murray, appropriately known on Twitter as @tecmobowlers, is telling me about how he used to belong to an online Tecmo Super Bowl league that included such things as a “franchise mode” with a draft, a salary cap and even retro rosters from the 1970s.