FirstCuts: We Forgot Something About EA, NFL

By Spencer Hall
Sports don’t start and end with a referee’s whistle. FirstCuts, a blog dedicated to sports culture, will cover everything outside the lines, from games to gear.
If we’re talking Madden video game football on this blog, we must correct something lacking from yesterday’s First Cuts post: the necessary bizarro glitches from the game itself, like this Donovan McNabb retropass from a jacked-up European version of Madden ‘07.

Yes, the NFL has renewed its contract with EA Sports through 2012, meaning that one marquee player will be horribly injured when he appears on the cover of the game, and that players may look forward to the endless fiddling of EA programmers and their “innovations” in the games. Remember “QB Vision?” The feature that blinded you and ensured you’d get sacked 17 times a game, turning even the best video game quarterback into Scott Mitchell with vertigo? That was awesome, EA.↵