What if major sports had Survivor Series?

As a kid watching professional wrestling, there were only a handful of PPV events that defined the landscape in the WWF – now WWE.

You had, of course, Wrestlemania, Summer Slam, Royal Rumble, and my favorite, Survivor Series.

While all the other events were loaded with single and tag-team matches (and a 30-man battle royal at the Royal Rumble), Survivor Series was a unique card made up of team matches, pitting the best babyfaces (good guys) versus the best heels (bad guys).

The WWE has kept this format rolling and will uncork another Survivor Series this Sunday. I don’t follow wrestling that closely anymore, and don’t know who half the guys are, but I still enjoy the team vs. team format.

But what if other sports (real sports) started their own Survivor Series showdown, pitting the best good guys against the best bad guys? Here’s how it would shake down for each league:

NFL

Aaron Rodgers, Larry Fitzgerald, Adrian Peterson, Jason Witten, Jared Allen

VS.

Philip Rivers, DeSean Jackson, Chris Johnson, Vernon Davis, Ndamukong Suh

Team Rivers would take an early lead, knocking out Witten, Allen and Peterson, thanks to some underhanded tactics from Suh. But, Rodgers needs just a single receiver, and he and Fitzgerald clean house, before Rivers grabs a handful of trunks and gets Fitz for the 1-2-3.

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What's worse: No poker or no PS3?

It might as well be the dark ages for fans of online gaming.

Major online poker sites are handcuffed by the Feds while online gamers are minus a pastime (purpose in life?) ever since hackers grabbed Sony’s Playstation Network by the short and curlies over a month ago.

The abrupt stop to these two popular hobbies has forced plenty of pale-skin, socially-awkward people to make eye contact with others as they flood into society, searching for entertainment.

Las Vegas has seen a boost in casino poker room traffic since the government clamped down on big sites like Pokerstars, according to Covers.com Sin City insider Case Keefer.

That trend leaves me a bit worried about the numbers of Call of Duty addicts with itchy trigger fingers since the PS Network crashed. Perhaps it wasn’t an elite team of Navy SEALS who took down Osama bin Laden, maybe it was just some action-starved SOCOM heads desperately looking for their poker room.

Either way, plenty of people are pissed about both situations. No poker and no PS3 makes Jack a dull boy, right?

Which online game are you missing the most: Poker or PS3?

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