Published October 11, 2010
En-Thuuzed
Never Miss a Skins Comeback Again

You’ve got a full plate this month.
Raising extra cash for your suddenly endangered senator. Larding up budget bills with pork. Perfecting your
tan for your John Boehner Halloween costume.
So we almost understand if you missed yesterday’s Skins comeback. Almost...
Meet
Thuuz, a clever new online service that lets you know if that game in your DVR queue is really
worth your time.
In a world of overanalysis and stat-geekery, this site gives you only one stat: whether last night’s game
was worth watching. Thuuz’s number crunchers give each game an “excitement score” of 1 to 100, based
on X-factors like comebacks, upsets and innovative new touchdown dances, which may or may not include a
Sharpie and a cell phone.
So next time you get called to an emergency Sunday session at the White House (the Situation Room,
frustratingly, still lacks cable), you can return home and find the day’s best games, sans scores. For
example, you’ll see that the Skins’ matchup with the Packers yesterday warranted a score of 86. It will
even tell you the best spot to cue it up—12:23 remaining in the fourth quarter. (Spoiler alert: they
win.)
If you can’t wait that long, you can sign up for emails or text alerts when a game goes into nail-biting
territory.
There’s got to be a TV in the Capitol somewhere...