June 29, 2003

For the Love of the Game

My good friend Chris introduced me to Hattrick.org a few weeks ago. It's a system that allows you to act as a virtual Football (the European version, not the American Gridiron version) Club owner, trading players, hiring/firing coaches, building up your arena, managing supporters and more.

There are over 150,000 people playing from around the world, and the detail in the game is pretty impressive. It's free to play and it usually takes about a week to get your team set up for you after you sign up.

After first regarding it with some degree of skepticism, I decided to give it a try.

I'm hooked. So hooked, in fact, that I spent most of my free time today creating logos, pictures and a web site for this fictional team: the Cawdor Kings.

Okay... back to work.