The Water Cooler

Check it out gang, a grass-roots effort to get Da' Coach to become the new governor of our beloved State and home State of Illinois. Check out www.dagovernor.com and help the campaign get going and put respect back into Illinois politics.

http://www.vsngaming.com/2008/12/simulatin...bcs-bowl-games/ Pretty cool, I wonder if this is going to spot on. I think all of them are pretty much right except the Virginia Tech one. I think that they are going to win convincingly. Thoughts?

So what is everyone's Xbox Live Gamertag? Got my wireless connection set up today (no more dragging my modem back and forth) and thought it might be fun to play some people from this board. my gamertag is "BF2K"

My son bought the newest "need for speed" game but we had trouble with the game constantly freezing or the message kept saying dirty disk or damaged. The disk was spotless and no scratches. So we returned it and received another with the same problem. WE called xbox and they said it was our hard drive. Which is fine since it is under warranty, but if we send our hard drive in we lose all data saved. Is there some way to retreive this data and place it in another storage unit, and then when the new drive arrives put this data back in the new hard dive ?

My friend is trying to get his project for his marketing class going. If you could help it'd be greatly appreciated. Here is the message: ---------------------------------------------- For my college marketing project, I have created www.5millionhits.com . The goal of the web site is to get 5 million unique visitors to visit the site. This project has been developed for my college marketing class. The point of this project is to show how much effect the internet has on advertising power. The goal is simple, to get 5 million unique web site hits over the span of the semester. By contacting various message boards, the goal is to see if we can build up a lot of w…

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/01/madden-co...dence-or-curse/ Do you believe in the Madden Curse? There is decent supporting evidence from each version. Favre & the Jets choke to miss out on the playoffs, Mangini gets fired, he leads the league in interceptions. Does it exist? If your favorite team's star player was going to be on the cover, would you care about it at all? Or is it just a silly notion.

Anyone watching his press conference right now? This guy is insanely delusional.

Started scanning all my Bears cards into a new photobucket, please check it out http://s434.photobucket.com/albums/qq66/fleasbears/

Life is good.

First off, congrats to Obama! Second, this article shows that GW put his country before himself with the war on Iraq. He took a lot of criticism and I think a lot of American's should at least consider what he did and give him some credit. Subject: Bush FINALLY vindicated on WMD in Iraq ... > > > > .... > > > > A national defense analyst says President Bush should be commended for > > keeping quiet about a discovery that could have blown his critics out > > of the water. > > > > Retired Major General Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran who > > served as an Army aviator, paratrooper,…

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century. Obama's executive order, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies, was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion rights foes. The ban has been a political football between Democratic and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. B…

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/01/exclusive...m-ian-cummings/ Straight from the Lead Producer of Madden 2010. Great to hear stuff will being told to the community more often. Any Madden news before the release is awesome.

the DaBears forum most of us came overfrom haschanged to a new server. Are we going back to it, or staying here. some of you old heads chime in...what say you

I've noticed many of you guys are from places like Ireland, Sweden, Chile, Arizona, Los Angeles, etc. I was just wondering you became Bears fans? Were you born here then moved due to money issues or a new job? Or was it a choice growing up to just pick a team and it happened to be the Bears?

http://www.vsngaming.com/2009/02/new-madde...ing-philosophy/ Definitely something to impact the way that almost every single one of us plays the game of Madden. I know this will change how many league, tournament, online players play.

Heading to Paris tomorrow morning(3am start) Going to bring the kids to eurodisney for the week, they don't know they are going there think we are going to England. CAn't wait to see they're faces. Really looking forward to it. Pretty sure I won't miss any BIG FA signings by the Bears

I'm so going to punch this guy Willis if I ever meet him. Jerk.

http://www.virtualsportsnetwork.com/2009/0...-10-screenshot/ What do you think? I love the realistic player models, in years past the QB's are the same size as LB's and their arms look like hocks of ham. The player sizes look more realistic. Also notice the refs, chain gang, stuff on sidelines, I am not sure of EVERY new feature there is but Peter Moore & EA said 6 can be seen in the screenshot.

oh well