dont hold on breathe on this .... we can all dream of getting 2kfootball back , since the espn2k5 was a better game than the current madden. But i highly doubt they will not want to renew that conract. The NFL sought EA out to give them the contract to start with.Also EA knows , as long as they have that contract, while it may cost them intitially upfront cost, they will not have any competition and can do alot of copy n paste maddens for a while .They also know ,without any competition, anyone who wants to play an nfl video game, MUST go thru them . That will well make up for the cost of the contract for many years worth of maddens.Its really sad that the NFL wont listen to the gamers and stop renewing with EA. You can bet, new ceo will have it renewed, and next madden will be a copy n paste of this one , with a few minor irrelevant (real refs , what a joke) add ons that wont deal with the crappy servers, or the gameplay . We must face facts, until we stop buying Madden, this is what we will keep getting.