I have a lot of good Madden memories from over the years and I wanted to share a couple here. I hope you do the same.
I remember teaching one of my friend's how to play football. We grew up and played touch football in the street with a group of like 6 people, but this guy was more a soccer fan. When he starte playing he would do the classic, throw all four downs and throw deep, blitz all the time. Then procede to lose by 40 or more. He generally is a good sport and was willing to learn. I would tell him to do simple things like stop calling deep passes every play and run the ball. Next, don't go for it on 4th. Punting and going for FGs doesn't make you less of a man. After we worked on how to call a more blanced game, I taught him how to run his plays better. We would work regularly with replays and break down what happened and what we were thinking while it was happening and what we should be thinking and looking for next time to do better.
All of that was Happening while playing Madden 02 on my NGC while we played NFL 2k on his dreamcast. In Madden 03 we started our first franchise together instead of just playing exhibition games all year. By madden 04 he actually got better than me and I started to have to really step my game up. We don't play as often together as we used to as we have grown up and graduated highschool, got jobs, etc. However, recently with the news about M10, we may start to set time aside to hang out and "get our John on." The thing we do now is start a franchise, set our teams up and sim one week at a time the regular season checking injuries and making any coaching changes we feel we may need to from week to week. We save and then play the post season and do the off season and start the next year all over again.
In short, it was a lot of fun teaching my friend who never even cared about football before to where he is at a point where he loves the game and all the depth of it. I still can't get into Futball though...
The other story I wanted to share was this. Madden 03, All-Madden, 8min quarters. I play at the Texans and he is the Falcons [the two worst teams in Madden 03 we want to build into super teams.] We play every game and we play as the other guy's opponant [for example: If it is Colts v Texans, he is the Colts.] First year I sign Randel Cunningham as a backup for David Carr. Carr goes down with an 11 week injury in the same fashion Tom Brady went down last year. Cunningham comes in and loses week one but ends up taking the Texans to the wildcard where we lose. Falcons miss the playoffs. 2ed year I make the Wild card again, this time I make it to the AFC Championship game and get killed by Pitt [I think I was shut out 41-0.] His Falcons win the division, but lose in he wildcard game. 3rd season I make it all the way back to the AFC championship game. His Falcons make it to the divisonal game and lose to Philly I think.
Texans at Jets. good close game. I take a 4 point lead and try to end the game in the final 5min. I run off a lot of clock and force him to use his time outs, however, I am forced to punt. I get a coffin corner and he is pinned inside the 5 with less than 30 to play. He throws and incompletion and on second down he throws a post pattern to Santana Moss under my cover 4 where he procedes to use his speed and agility and stick skill against my Texans still terrible secondary for a game winning score. The room was silent during the entire play and for a few seconds afterward. The shock was a big reason why. All these hours, all these months playing these three seasons and off seasons. I had the lead by 4. A FG wouldn't do it. Zero time outs. Just keep them out of the endzone and we go to the Superbowl. Then they let that Happen... just wow. We looked at each other. My hands droped low and like my jaw and my controler fell the last foot to the ground making a clunk. Then he eruppted with cheers while I gave the classic "WTF?!?" It was bad against me, but was possibly the best moment in Madden I have ever had.
I have plenty more stories, but please share yours.
I remember teaching one of my friend's how to play football. We grew up and played touch football in the street with a group of like 6 people, but this guy was more a soccer fan. When he starte playing he would do the classic, throw all four downs and throw deep, blitz all the time. Then procede to lose by 40 or more. He generally is a good sport and was willing to learn. I would tell him to do simple things like stop calling deep passes every play and run the ball. Next, don't go for it on 4th. Punting and going for FGs doesn't make you less of a man. After we worked on how to call a more blanced game, I taught him how to run his plays better. We would work regularly with replays and break down what happened and what we were thinking while it was happening and what we should be thinking and looking for next time to do better.
All of that was Happening while playing Madden 02 on my NGC while we played NFL 2k on his dreamcast. In Madden 03 we started our first franchise together instead of just playing exhibition games all year. By madden 04 he actually got better than me and I started to have to really step my game up. We don't play as often together as we used to as we have grown up and graduated highschool, got jobs, etc. However, recently with the news about M10, we may start to set time aside to hang out and "get our John on." The thing we do now is start a franchise, set our teams up and sim one week at a time the regular season checking injuries and making any coaching changes we feel we may need to from week to week. We save and then play the post season and do the off season and start the next year all over again.
In short, it was a lot of fun teaching my friend who never even cared about football before to where he is at a point where he loves the game and all the depth of it. I still can't get into Futball though...
The other story I wanted to share was this. Madden 03, All-Madden, 8min quarters. I play at the Texans and he is the Falcons [the two worst teams in Madden 03 we want to build into super teams.] We play every game and we play as the other guy's opponant [for example: If it is Colts v Texans, he is the Colts.] First year I sign Randel Cunningham as a backup for David Carr. Carr goes down with an 11 week injury in the same fashion Tom Brady went down last year. Cunningham comes in and loses week one but ends up taking the Texans to the wildcard where we lose. Falcons miss the playoffs. 2ed year I make the Wild card again, this time I make it to the AFC Championship game and get killed by Pitt [I think I was shut out 41-0.] His Falcons win the division, but lose in he wildcard game. 3rd season I make it all the way back to the AFC championship game. His Falcons make it to the divisonal game and lose to Philly I think.
Texans at Jets. good close game. I take a 4 point lead and try to end the game in the final 5min. I run off a lot of clock and force him to use his time outs, however, I am forced to punt. I get a coffin corner and he is pinned inside the 5 with less than 30 to play. He throws and incompletion and on second down he throws a post pattern to Santana Moss under my cover 4 where he procedes to use his speed and agility and stick skill against my Texans still terrible secondary for a game winning score. The room was silent during the entire play and for a few seconds afterward. The shock was a big reason why. All these hours, all these months playing these three seasons and off seasons. I had the lead by 4. A FG wouldn't do it. Zero time outs. Just keep them out of the endzone and we go to the Superbowl. Then they let that Happen... just wow. We looked at each other. My hands droped low and like my jaw and my controler fell the last foot to the ground making a clunk. Then he eruppted with cheers while I gave the classic "WTF?!?" It was bad against me, but was possibly the best moment in Madden I have ever had.
I have plenty more stories, but please share yours.
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