Madden 12

[Cactus Drags]

I want Peyton Hillis on the cover.

Not comfortable with Vick having the chance to be on the cover. He's lucky enough to still even be playing the game, DeSean Jackson's surely worthy enough. Oh, and he's already been on once.

I'd rather Urlacher or Forte be the Bears rep over Peppers too, dude's only been a Bear for a year, and he's more well known as a Panther.

[Damian WayLNKe]

I can't wait until the finals, Tim Tebow vs. Seattle's 12th Man.

[Meacon Keaton]

One can hope!

[Trey]

Here's some hints about Madden 12 from IGN.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/115/1157075p1.html

[Cactus Drags]

I call massive shenanigans on ESPN revealing the current Charles/Tebow score. Why not just throw out every other vote for Charles and have done with it?

[Guest JukeboxHero]

I'm voting for the worst option in each round. I'd like to see the worst Madden cover ever.

[Meacon Keaton]

I wish they had a "Pass" option. Fuck if I want to see a Charger or Raider on the cover. 32 teams in the NFL and they match two teams I hate more than anything against one another, forcing me to pick one.

[Cactus Drags]

You could abstain.

[Slogger]

I wish they had a "Pass" option. Fuck if I want to see a Charger or Raider on the cover. 32 teams in the NFL and they match two teams I hate more than anything against one another, forcing me to pick one.

4 words.

Phillip.Rivers.Madden.Curse

[DJ Ice]

If Sanchez doesn't make it threw, I want motherfucking Tebow on the cover

[DJ Ice]

So Tebow and the 12th man didn't get through

IT'S A FIX

[Lint]

from ESPN

Concussions in football games are taken more seriously than ever before. And going forward, that will hold true in the next edition of the "Madden" football video game franchise when concussed players won't be allowed to return to the field in the game they are injured.

"Concussions are such a big thing, it has to be a big thing in the video game," Madden told The New York Times in a telephone interview. "It starts with young kids -- they start in video games. I think the osmosis is if you get a concussion, that's a serious thing and you shouldn't play. Or leading with the head that you want to eliminate. We want that message to be strong."

EA Sports president Peter Moore said last week at the World Congress of Sports in Miami that it was "wrong" when the company's "Madden" game would allow concussed players to return to the field in the following quarter. That is no longer the case, Moore said Wednesday at the two-day summit in Miami.

Vote: Madden NFL 12 Cover

ESPN.com users are getting the chance to pick the player on the cover of this year's game. Sixteen candidates remain and the winner will be revealed live on "SportsNation" on Monday, April 25 (ESPN2, 4 p.m. ET). Vote

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Moore says "we have an obligation in our industry" to recognize that brain injuries are one of the biggest on-field issues facing football at all levels right now.

The game's executive producer, Phil Frazier, told The Times that "Madden NFL 12", with its new concussion rules and the exclusion of helmet-to-helmet hits and headfirst tackling can be a "teaching tool" to players of the game, particularly kids.

Gus Johnson and Cris Collinsworth, the announcers featured in the game, also will explain the dangerous nature of concussions when they announce that a player can't return to the game.

"I wouldn't say this is a full public-service announcement, but it's a means to educate," he told the newspaper.

Madden agrees with the game's new emphasis on proper tackling techniques and the seriousness of concussions, telling The Times "if we show players playing through [concussions], then kids won't understand."

"There was a time when someone would get a concussion and you'd say he just got dinged, take some smelling salts and get back in the game. Those days are over," he told the newspaper.

Madden NFL 12 is scheduled to be released in August, even if the current lockout continues

[Cactus Drags]

Ok, I wasn't going to say anything because I never though it remotely plausible, but Aaron Rodgers is actually losing to Peyton Hillis. Thanks to ESPN trying to rig it, Rodgers is gaining ground again, but I want all of you fuckers to vote Hillis in. And then I want you to vote him in over Vick. I'm not a Browns fan or anything (although full disclosure, we Bears fans aren't exactly vocal supporters of that cheesehead quarterback), I just think it'd be pretty cool to see a relatively unheralded, blue-collar type get his 15 minutes of fame. Also, fucking with EA would be a nice bonus. Vick's been on before, Rodgers will get his shot next year or the year after or the year after and Adrian Peterson can't hold onto the ball long enough for the cover shot to be taken.

[TCO]

Yeah it pissed me off so hard when they released that Hillis was killing Rodgers after trying the same trick and failing with Tebow. If they wanted Rodgers, why not just give it to him? Nobody would've kicked up a fuss. I'd love for it to be Hillis and I've voted for him but I think even if he wins here, Vick is still it getting the cover.

[Lint]

My support for the "little guy" is solidly behind Danny Woodhed..

[Guest JukeboxHero]

As a Browns fan, I've been shilling every matchup that Hillis is in all over Facebook and Twitter. I'm shocked that he's made it this far. Hopefully if he wins, the Madden Curse and the Cleveland Curse will cancel each other out.

[Cactus Drags]

Yeah it pissed me off so hard when they released that Hillis was killing Rodgers after trying the same trick and failing with Tebow. If they wanted Rodgers, why not just give it to him? Nobody would've kicked up a fuss. I'd love for it to be Hillis and I've voted for him but I think even if he wins here, Vick is still it getting the cover.

You'd think that, but I thought Rodgers would be an absolute lock against anyone else in the bracket. If Hillis can knock him off, I see no reason he can't beat Vick too.

[Lint]

didn't realize Woodhed lost...My votes for Hillis (Y)

[Meacon Keaton]

I don't like the idea of Vick being on since he's already been on. That and I hate the Eagles with a fire of a thousand suns.

[DJ Ice]

Couldn't give a fuck about Rodgers or Vick, but I like Hillis and Peterson, so it would be great to see it come down to them two