Ken Stabler's Immortal Presence In All-Pro Football 2K8
 

To the generation of sports fans currently in their teens, 20s, and 30s, Ken Stabler was never a Super Bowl champion, an NFL MVP, or a quarterback who once took orders from coaching legends like John Madden and Bear Bryant. To football fans under the age of 40, Stabler was just another gray-haired gentleman sitting among Alabama's alumni, whom CBS' cameras loved to show between downs on SEC Saturdays. But for the few thousand young people who played All-Pro Football 2K8 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the quarterback called “Snake” might be remembered a bit differently.

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Ken Stabler was never a Super Bowl champion. Unless your counting Super Bowl XI then he was totally a Super Bowl champion.

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I never understood people sleeping on The Snake in APF. The dude was exceptional - he could scramble, he had decent arm strength and most importantly, he'd rarely get rattled even after taking a lot of hits. Really loved his Pump Fake ability which would freeze defenders and help me buy some time for crucial passes. The dude still holds a permanent roster spot as the captain to my APF Las Vegas Rattlers.

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I think the author was referring to the way Stabler is viewed by the younger generation who aren't familiar with his accomplishments.

"Snake" was the first sports biography I ever read. And although it's fairly commonplace in this era of heavy media coverage, getting that kind of behind-the-scenes insight was amazing at the time. It was a different era, back when the worst offense a football player usually committed was sleeping off hangovers during team meetings.

Well, it HAS been discovered what effect ALL skills had on ratings, long ago. It's quite simple really. Clutch boosted his ratings in the 4th. Leadership boosted his generics ratings. Carry on.

What a great write up! I hope 2K allows this to be backwards compatible on xb1, its the only 360 game i've held on to.

I always used him on my teams. My friend and i nicknamed him "Steady" Stabler, for his consistent game play and reliable clutch moments. I wish APF continued beyond 2k8, could have been something really special.

Stabler was so overpowered and it seemed that he showed up on every roster in the PS3 community, I don't know about Xbox and the Randall Cunningham experiment, but he was everywhere in the PS3. He was so good and smooth I swore off using him and made a team (The bison: Deacon Jones and Reggie White off the edge) that was devised with his defeat in mind. May he rest in peace and I'm glad I got to play All pro so I got to know his career a bit more intimately.

This was the last football game I bought and I loved it.