Making goofy Sim versions of your rivals to enact a little digital revenge upon them is such a universal experience that now even an American football team has done it. This week a bunch of NFL teams released videos to announce their schedule for the 2024 season and, as I've just learned is tradition, they've had a bit of fun with it. The Kansas City Chiefs did their take on those hydraulic press videos—crushing the competition, get it?—the Jacksonville Jaguars did a classic superhero cartoon-style animation of defeating all their challengers, and the Los Angeles Chargers made an entire video using The Sims 2.
And it's long, like an entire three and a half minute roast. The jerseys are all a nod to other teams but, presumably due to trademark reasons, are blurred out and don't actually have any logos but you get the gist. There's a dig at a Raiders player donning clown makeup, a reference to the Kelce brothers' podcast and Taylor Swift showing up to call Travis Kelce away. A Broncos fan gets the choice to wish for better uniforms or a quarterback. It's clearly a lot of inside jokes for football fans that are lost on me, but there's a bit of classic Sims torture too.
