12-07-2009, 06:23 PM
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#460
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Rookie
OVR: 1
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Cleveland Ohio
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Re: How's everyone's offline franchise going?
Me and my nephew are 4-1 in our third year with the Vikings. I controlled the QB while he was Adrian Peterson.
First year we did well, went 12-4 and got a Wild Card bye. Brett Favre had like 21 TDs and 18 INTs and Peterson had like 1300 yards rushing and 18 TDs all while missing 4 games due to injury. We played on Skill Level 14 with custom sliders so it wasn't a cake-walk to go 12-4. It also showed in the playoffs when in the NFC Divisional game we played against the Saints in Minnesota, late 4th Q, the score is 27-24 New Orleans, were driving down the field and we get set to kick like a 40 yard field goal with 3 seconds left.
I'm telling my nephew "This is it, Overtime or season over" I line up the kick, he gets ready to kick it.....AND THE KICK GETS BLOCKED!! I was in shock and my nephew fell to the ground pissed as hell. It was still a hell of an experience and it fueled us for year 2, and boy did year 2 deliver so much fun. I never realized how much funner a franchise can get when your playing with 1, 2 or even 3 other people on the 360. BTW, the Patriots won the Super Bowl the first year.
So year 2, Favre retires and we draft a rookie QB from Minnesota college with our first round pick. We also signed Michael Vick and let them battle it out in the preseason. After 4 games, we evaluated it and saw that the rookie played well and we gave him the start.
BAD move, after 5 games we got 1-4 and our QB has 4 TDs and 7 INTs. I'm playing with him and my nephew is always like "What kind of pass is that" everytime I mess up and i'm like "It's hard to play with a 59 OVR QB. We then look to trade, we saw Phillys backup, Kevin Kolb had a 25 TD - 15 INT season last year when McNabb was hurt for the year, so we make a trade, I forgot what it was but it was a fair one, we added a 2nd round n 3rd round pick for him and at the end of the season Kolb goes for 20 TDs and 15 INTs while Peterson plays the whole season and goes for like 1700 yards n 15 TDs.
We go 10-6 and once again we win our Division. Now we face the Cowboys in Minnesota in the NFC Divisional Game. This game was back and forth, back and forth, late in the 4th were winning 34-31 with like 30 seconds left and Dallas had their BACK UP QB AND BACK UP RB for the 2nd half, their starting RB was out for the game before the game started and romo got hurt for the game in the 2nd quarter... but somehow they drow a 30 yard strike and one of their WR out runs our safeties and goes for like a 70 yard TD score. We were in shock and with like 19 sec left and down by 4 we seriously thought the game was over, cuz we had to get a TD, we couldnt try to set up for a field goal.
They squib kick it, we get it and get to our 40 with like 15 seconds left. 60 Yards in 15 seconds with 2 time outs left. Shotgun Verticals, I get a quick 15 yard strike to our TE and were at their 45 with like 9 seconds left. My nephew is like "Lets do a screen pass" I'm thinking "Hell no, we need to look for another quick 10-15 yard pass, call timeout, and one heave to the end zone. But I give in and we try the screen pass. Peterson gets it, and theirs only 2 people in front of him, one person gets blocked by his blocker and he jukes the other one as he runs for 45 yards with no time left and we win the game.
GREATEST MOMENT EVER I HAD IN MADDEN 10. We're happy and excited and what-not. So in the NFC Championship game, we have a rematch with the Saints from last year, we beat them easily 27-17 to go to the Super Bowl. Steelers beat the Super Bowl Champs Patriots in the AFC to go to the Super Bowl.
I'll keep this one short. We beat them 24-23 after a missed field goal by the Steelers with a few minutes left, and also at the last drive of the game, the steelers were at our 40 and had to go like 5-10 yards to set up the field goal with like 30 sec left, they kept passing it but eventually we interecepted it when they tried to get ready to get into field goal range and we win the game....
We won the damn super bowl by 1 point, in year 2. In year 3 were 4-1 right now but we havn't played since Thanksgiving break but I told him lets wait till patch #2 comes out and when some updated sliders come out so that we can finish out year 3 and have an even greater gameplay experience in the playoffs as we try to defend our Super Bowl. All I know is that Saints are our Rivals in the NFC as well as the Steelers for beating them by one point.
This franchise is so much fun I've lost interest in my Cleveland Browns one, and I'm in year 6 in that one.
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