It's amazing to me how far the scoreboard has come and evolved in Madden. I mean the picture below was the scoreboard in Madden 2005.
Now the best thing about that scoreboard was that it was simple, and it had everything attached to the scoreboard in a drop down box. It told you 1st & 10, then sometimes it showed you your 3rd down conversion rate before a third down play, it showed you Time of Possession in the current drive, all within the scoreboard, no other banners needed. Plus it was small and in the corner of the screen and disappeared when you hiked the ball.