DDR Fun or Banjo Bowl Victory!

The past couple of nights have been filled with an unusual amount of video game playing. Not just any game either, but Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix for Xbox. Never having gotten into the DDR craze before, the whole thing was largely new to me. Taking a chance on fun I picked up the game and two mats on ebay. Starting out slow and shitty, I have progressed to moderately ok at it. It took a while to really figure out the best way to play it; bouncing all the time, or stepping and leaving the foot on the spot. I do the stepping and leaving thing. The game has found some fast fans with my friends; Ryan and Tina especially. I think it's been fairly obvious that Tina doesn't like being forced to play what Ryan wants to all the time, so to play something more attuned to her interests seems like a breath of fresh air.
At the official TV christening last night, Ryan, Tina, Stobes, Lee, and Andrew's brother and sister all came over and did some dancing. Andrew's sister was a semi-pro at the thing and put us all to shame. I was impressed to see everyone give it a shot. Some had more success then others, but at least they tried. You can really get into it and start to sweat like a pig as most of us were doing. Calming down a bit, we then moved to NFL 2K5, Chu Chu Rocket and NHL 2K5, wrapping things up at about 3 am.
Today was the inaugural Banjo Bowl between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Seeing as how the Bombers have sucked ass this year I went in with low expectations, but they managed to surprise me and play really well. The final score was 27-24 Bombers. There were a few really nice runs by Roberts and the new quarterback Glenn totally made Khari look useless. He actually threw the ball to his own team! The only downer was the continuing suckage of the kicker Troy Westwood who managed to blow an easy field goal that could've provided some breathing room. All in all it was a fun little time.