Madden NFL 12 Cover Athlete is Peyton Hillis

[OSUFan_88]

BTW, in case you're curious, Hillis won with 66% of the vote.

[Tengo Juego]

That wasn't the official cover they revealed on the show, was it? That thing looked terrible.

[dan_457]

Probably the only time a Cleveland Brown will ever be on a Madden Cover.

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by aTTckr

No the cover doesn't matter that much, but it is the marketing campaign surrounding each release of Madden. The campaign won't work if they don't have a popular guy to get the hype going for the "casual fan". For us here at OS it doesn't matter which guy is the Madden guy for this year but for the broader audience it sure matters. And this cinderella story works right now but come august nobody (at least all the guys outside of this forum) will remember this tournament and how hillis got on the cover. They'll just ask themselves who the hell the guy on the cover is when they see it.

Never met a Madden casual player who says, oh man, Brett's on the cover, gotta go get the the game. They want the game of football as much as the people on OS.

The cover athlete does not impact the sales of the game either way.

[NDAlum]

Dear EA,

I will now buy the game.

NDAlum

LOL @ many of the replies. Typical responses!

[PVarck31]

Quote: Originally Posted by gohogs141

we had about 15,000 people on hogville.net voting for him every day lol but i dont see why people are hating on hillis, he has a running style thats really fun to watch he was good with denver too, just didnt get enough carries

Ahh, I forgot to mention the Arkansas fans. Thank you!

[Aggies7]

Makes me happy at least it ain't Vick. Didn't want to see a repeat cover

[Bellsprout]

Quote: Originally Posted by roadman

Never met a Madden casual player who says, oh man, Brett's on the cover, gotta go get the the game. They want the game of football as much as the people on OS.

I actually know a couple people who were going to buy Madden 09 that year just to have it because Brett was on the cover. They didn't even own video game systems. Then Favre went into superdouche mode, so they didn't.

Obviously that's the exception to the rule and means nothing, I just thought it was a funny story.