Great Geek Moments: 1998 ESPN2 Magic: The Gathering Championship
Oy gevalt...
Chris and I have been laughing about this one for years. 1998, the year I graduated from high school, and three years until we even met each other, yet within a week of knowing each other in college, Chris and I were doing impressions of this long-forgotten oddity on a nearly daily basis.
"KABOOM! BALL LIGHTNING!"
I had assumed footage of this lameness had been lost to the sands of the fogs of the mists of the winding scrolls of the sands of time, but thanks to YouTube, we now have proof that we were just really drunk at the time.
Sad to say, the kid who lost that tournament made more money than anyone on the Weekly Geek staff has ever seen.
"IF HE DRAWS A MOUNTAIN IT'S ALL OVER!"
