The day before yesterday, the new version of EA’s college football video game was finally made available. Before I made my way to bed, your North Carolina Tar Heels had just beaten the Miami Hurricanes—for the third time in the season—in the College Football Playoff Semifinal thanks in part to a 200-yard explosion by a freshman halfback named Bobby Sourdough (this is the default name given to the created character in the Road to Glory mode. I laughed for five minutes when it appeared on the screen. I would die for my fast adult son Robert Sourdough).
The soundtrack to the game is all drumlines and marching bands, and watching Bobby Bread running out of the tunnel in Kenan Stadium to the customary “TAR!