{"id":87614178,"date":"2007-06-10T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614178"},"modified":"2007-06-10T08:11:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:11:30","slug":"tennis-player-vs-soccer-player-thats-my-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614178","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Player vs. Soccer Player?  That&#8217;s *my* idea!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_xB1FZ8fLK8\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_xB1FZ8fLK8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Nifty video from Nike Momentum (drum circles cause adrenaline, who knew?) via the often interesting and always well-written <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecriminal.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/nike-momentum.html\">How Advertising Spoiled Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, stars (it&#8217;s Nike, they can afford it &#8211; I&#8217;m surprised they don&#8217;t have them breakdancing), are squaring off, sorta, and you end up with tennis players slamming a ball at a soccer player, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And I called it about a two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;cause I wanna see a game that places the sports against each other.&nbsp; The game&#8217;ll need some serious play-balancing, and would be a pain in the butt to do physics for, but after watching this little video, I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s time to check my idea in, since it&#8217;s got at least the first wave of questions and &#8220;yeah, but&#8221;s answered.<\/p>\n<p>So watch out, Nike Commercial People, you&#8217;re on notice.<br \/>{Speaking of being &#8220;On Notice,&#8221; the Stephen Colbert &#8220;On Notice&#8221; Generator is gone, sad.}<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nifty video from Nike Momentum (drum circles cause adrenaline, who knew?) via the often interesting and always well-written How Advertising Spoiled Me. In the video, stars (it&#8217;s Nike, they can afford it &#8211; I&#8217;m surprised they don&#8217;t have them breakdancing), are squaring off, sorta, and you end up with tennis players slamming a ball at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}