First off, let me express my deepest sympathies to the family of Dwight Clark, one of the San Francisco 49ers foremost legends in their long, storied history.
Being an Australian, I wasn’t introduced to the sport the way most people reading this were. There was no family team, I don’t have any sort of geographical factor either that would help me choose the team.
I didn’t get introduced to the game until my father bought me a Sega Genesis version of Madden NFL ’96. I played it right away, as young children do with new video games, and I was hooked.