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Just prior to the turn of the century, John Madden, the former Oakland Raiders coach and jolly, fat man analyst plastered his own rounded features on to the cover of his product. Perhaps marketers felt an NFL athlete’s star power sold more copies than Madden’s portrait ever could. Beside, if you look at Madden, he’s [...]

So, brett may be on the next cover. I’m not normally one to pick up Madden, but I think 2009 will now be picked up solely for this reason. Atta boy Brett, nice to have one of my teams make the cover of something. I doubt it, when was the last time a white guy [...]

GameDaily is reporting that the coveted cover shot of EA Tiburon’s Madden NFL 09 will be going to recently retired Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre. The report cites an announcement on the Madden NFL 09 Facebook page which states that the cover athlete is expected to be announced tomorrow, April 25. GameDaily suggests that, [...]

Now the rundown of the top eight candidates for the Madden 09 cover. Consider also the possibility of Madden being on the cover of the collectors edition box with an athlete on the cover of the actual game box. What happened to the cover athlete relates to our big feature for this years game thing? [...]