In Other News, The Tennessee Titans Love Themselves Some ‘Smash Bros.’

  Sometimes, this whole ‘sports’ thing can get a little too heavy. You can get all caught up in multimillionaire wussy-ass (in the case of soccer players) athletes, ardent support of a team only for them to crush your dreams, and everything else that comes with being a sports fan. It’s a hard life.  

For the players themselves, too, time away from this life-consuming business is important. But how to spend that time? Sure, a lot of them like to spend it playing genitalia-tennis with women who aren’t their wives/partners, but infidelity isn’t for everyone. Let’s take an ogle at the Tennessee Titans, then, who like to get their Super Smash Bros. on during their down time.

As the Ringer reports, the team’s practise facility was being renovated over the Summer. This left them without fancy-ass new TVs and consoles and such. The solution? Go old school, and bust out the original Smash.

It was left tackle Taylor Lewan who made the magic happen:

‘“I brought my own Nintendo 64, my own controllers, everything,” Lewan said. Long snapper Beau Brinkley freaked out at the sight: “This was what I got for my birthday when I was 10.”’

With that, the game became an addiction to most all of the Titans. Lewan is generally agreed to be the team’s Smash champ, though, apparently, having mastered the ways of the pain-in-the-ass Ness. Not that there’s much competition there; he himself claims that some of his teammates are ‘dogshit awful’ at the brawler.

But then, hell, everyone has that one asshole friend who does nothing but spam thunder as Pikachu. As a retro head myself, this one tickles my nostalgia-bone real good. Hit the link for more on this story.