Madden Curse for Cowher? (1 Viewer)

[fridayfrenzy]

Steelers | Cowher on the cover for new EA game

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:41:13 -0800

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher will be on the cover for Electronic Arts' new video game, NFL Head Coach. The game will challenge the hands-on gamer to build and manage every aspect of a football team from the ground up. Cowher said, "With NFL Head Coach there is finally a game that gives true football fans the chance to strategize and become the head coach of their favorite team. Coaching is about leadership and everyone will now see how difficult, but also how rewarding coaching can be." The game is scheduled to arrive in stores June 20.

 

[Buckeyedawgs]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

 

[Godsbrother]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

 

[Facecow]

In the end, I stopped playing the arcade portion of Madden and ran it similar to my old Front Office Football game.

I'll be buying this one unless the reviews are absolutely wretched.

Additionally, the misspelling of "slobbering" gives the Browns homer's post authenticity and style. Well done.

 

[Englishteacher]

Sounds like a pretty cool game. Madden player here. One of the things I didn't like about the Madden game was the contract negotiation aspect. Wouldn't let you pay the same thing from year to year for a player. Basically to get the overall amount of the contract down you had to throw in a huge signing bonus and then have escalting salaries every year. What if you wanted to pay the same amount every year with a smaller bonus? Well I can anticipate someone's retort about how that's reflective of the NFL but the lack of options was a little frustrating. Wonder if the new game will have things like incentive bonuses...

Also, a comment on the precedence of the game. I think the research / development / marketing teams for EA are very tuned in. Obviously, they've been abreast of the meteoric rise in popularity of fantasy football. Essentially, everyone who is playing the game is make believing they are a coach, talent evaluator, GM, owner, etc. This has changed the game of football in that it's made fans more knowledgeable about the game. Many fans are adding heady critical thinking to the customary rooting and spectating. The number of guys who have dreamt of winning the lottery and buying a pro football franchise because of what he's been able to do in his local fantasy league, make decisons about and control aspects of the NFL, I'm pretty sure is at an absolute all time high. Heck, I've been offered a job driving the future owner of the Green Bay Packers around in a golf cart. Of course, my secondary duty is going to be keeping the beer cooler full for my future boss, a lady who worked in the bakery at the grocery store I was a buyer for. She really got into the weekly pool I was running and was a huge Packers fan along with her husband. Of course, the hubby she was probably going to drop for Brett Favre but I digress. Fantasy football creates dreams. I seriously doubt I'm going to be hobnobbing it in the golf cart with Blair and Brett Favre at the Packers' training camp anytime soon but what fantasy football creates is a little piece of ownership, a little stardust, a memento, of something we love. And that is football. That we get to feel it, hold it, and shape is an expansion of that game.

So while the creation of this game may sound a little funny it's really logically understandable when you start to think of the sequence of events. It might not be what you would have thought of or thought would ever be needed but here it is. It's just another invention, another creation. I applaud the business savvy of EA for being so aware of their customers, for their ingenuity. Now whether a man could possibly ever need such a game I don't know, but being a consumer (read sucker or unsuspecting fish) and gamer, if I have some extra dough laying around, I might take the bait. I do desire foootball after all.

 

[Portis 26]

In the end, I stopped playing the arcade portion of Madden and ran it similar to my old Front Office Football game.

Me too Check out my Madden threads (see sig)

 

[Portis 26]

NFL Head Coach - EA Sports homepage

 

[Buckeyedawgs]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic! 

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

I was born a Brown and raised in the Browns locker room with Jim, Leroy, Paul and many other greats. It only took one PUKESBURG game at 8 years old to learn to hate them! Got knocked over in a fight after the game by two adults fighting in Municaple Stadium! I will take PUKESBURG and that TEAM UP NORTH to my grave as most hated anything. Model was on my list too but I got over that. I will never get over the other two HATED teams! GUAREENTEED!

Thanks for the props! DAMN Proud to be a Brown and Buckeye!!!!

 

[Class Dismissed]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

I was born a Brown and raised in the Browns locker room with Jim, Leroy, Paul and many other greats. It only took one PUKESBURG game at 8 years old to learn to hate them! Got knocked over in a fight after the game by two adults fighting in Municaple Stadium! I will take PUKESBURG and that TEAM UP NORTH to my grave as most hated anything. Model was on my list too but I got over that. I will never get over the other two HATED teams! GUAREENTEED!

Thanks for the props! DAMN Proud to be a Brown and Buckeye!!!!

Wow...really......The Expansion Browns rank somewhere between the Houston Texans and the Arizona Cardinals on the Steelers Rival scale.

 

[Class Dismissed]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

I was born a Brown and raised in the Browns locker room with Jim, Leroy, Paul and many other greats. It only took one PUKESBURG game at 8 years old to learn to hate them! Got knocked over in a fight after the game by two adults fighting in Municaple Stadium! I will take PUKESBURG and that TEAM UP NORTH to my grave as most hated anything. Model was on my list too but I got over that. I will never get over the other two HATED teams! GUAREENTEED!

Thanks for the props! DAMN Proud to be a Brown and Buckeye!!!!

Wow...really......The Expansion Browns rank somewhere between the Houston Texans and the Arizona Cardinals on the Steelers Rival scale.

 

[Wreckincrew]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic! 

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

I was born a Brown and raised in the Browns locker room with Jim, Leroy, Paul and many other greats. It only took one PUKESBURG game at 8 years old to learn to hate them! Got knocked over in a fight after the game by two adults fighting in Municaple Stadium! I will take PUKESBURG and that TEAM UP NORTH to my grave as most hated anything. Model was on my list too but I got over that. I will never get over the other two HATED teams! GUAREENTEED!

Thanks for the props! DAMN Proud to be a Brown and Buckeye!!!!

Well, at least you spelled "Browns" right. I'm by no means a Steeler fan but this is for you.

 

[DoctorDetroit]

In the end, I stopped playing the arcade portion of Madden and ran it similar to my old Front Office Football game.

Me too Check out my Madden threads (see sig)

 

[bro1ncos]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

Tell us what you think of John Elway and Jeremiah Castille.

 

[DoctorDetroit]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic! 

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

Tell us what you think of John Elway and Jeremiah Castille.

I try to hate the Steelers; then I think of Browns fans and hate them a little less.

 

[kupcho1]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic! 

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

I was born a Brown and raised in the Browns locker room with Jim, Leroy, Paul and many other greats. It only took one PUKESBURG game at 8 years old to learn to hate them! Got knocked over in a fight after the game by two adults fighting in Municaple Stadium! I will take PUKESBURG and that TEAM UP NORTH to my grave as most hated anything. Model was on my list too but I got over that. I will never get over the other two HATED teams! GUAREENTEED!

Thanks for the props! DAMN Proud to be a Brown and Buckeye!!!!

I'm really starting to warm to this guy.

 

[B-Deep]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

Tell us what you think of John Elway and Jeremiah Castille.

I try to hate the Steelers; then I think of Browns fans and hate them a little less.

There are no fans worse than Browns fans.None.

 

[eddiezz74]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic! 

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

Tell us what you think of John Elway and Jeremiah Castille.

I try to hate the Steelers; then I think of Browns fans and hate them a little less.

There are no fans worse than Browns fans.None.

As an Eagles fan may I say, thank you.

 

[B-Deep]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic!

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

Tell us what you think of John Elway and Jeremiah Castille.

I try to hate the Steelers; then I think of Browns fans and hate them a little less.

There are no fans worse than Browns fans.None.

As an Eagles fan may I say, thank you.

Funny thing is I am a cowboys fan and I'd take a room full of Eagles fans over a room full of browns fans ANY DAY

 

[Portis 26]

Gentlemen, I may be wrong, but I believe this is a thread about a video game, rather than particular fans.

 

[Sheriff66]

I hope he is SLOBERING in Pic! 

Just another reason PUKESBURG will be last in division this year!

I think we have found the successor to BGP as FBG's most obnoxious Brown's fan. Congrats!

I was born a Brown and raised in the Browns locker room with Jim, Leroy, Paul and many other greats. It only took one PUKESBURG game at 8 years old to learn to hate them! Got knocked over in a fight after the game by two adults fighting in Municaple Stadium! I will take PUKESBURG and that TEAM UP NORTH to my grave as most hated anything. Model was on my list too but I got over that. I will never get over the other two HATED teams! GUAREENTEED!

Thanks for the props! DAMN Proud to be a Brown and Buckeye!!!!

You sure seem like a Buckeye....