My roomate and I at the time had identical SONY Trinitron TVs next to each other in the living room. Connecting our Xboxes forced us to host several annual HALO LAN parties.
We all know Bungie invented "dual wielding" but when introduced the sword in HALO 2 melees were off the charts.
By the time HALO 3 was released it was no mystery that Dan was a "screen looker". Horse blinders was the only reasonable solution.