It’s easy to think that football players are just machines that wake up, go to practice, go home from practice, ice up and do it all over again the next day. According to his blog, Nick Mangold and his fellow teammates love them some HALO 3.

Halo 3 has graced us with its presence. I was never big into video games until my college roommate introduced me to Halo. For those who haven’t enjoyed the greatness that follows Halo around like Linus’ blanket, it is a sci-fi first-person-shooter video game. You can play by yourself or join others online to play as a group. Since my introduction to Halo I have wasted many hours of my life to the game. When I first arrived at the Jets, it was a pleasant surprise to learn that many of my teammates enjoy the game as much as I do. During training camp it gets pretty intense with different Halo competitions and rivalries. I think it gives us a simple escape from the rigors of practice and meetings.

Anywho, after receiving the game … and logging a good amount of hours to my family’s chagrin, I highly recommend going out and purchasing it.

Many of his teammates? We want names!!  

There are just too many permutations of questions in my mind … I want to know if Laveranues Coles enjoys a nicely timed grenade kill or if Jon Vilma likes a good sniper shot as much as we all do. Does Chad Pennington snicker after mowing down Victor Hobson in a Warthog Jeep? What’s everyone’s screenname? Is Mangold’s stonecoldmangold? I need answers!!

I had heard over the summer the PR department of the Jets handed out XBOXes to players who would sign autographs to fans … never validated, but it seems clear they were a bigger part of camp, than I thought.

After reading this, alls I am saying is if I was to play a nice game of “Rockets” with some of the guys on the Jets, I think I could die a happy man.

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