LOL. I think me and you have already had this discussion in another thread but maybe it was another poster. Anyway, I DO NOT have to "imagine" it, I have experienced it for 5 going on 6 years. Madden 07 had a feature called Live Opponent that allowed me and my friends to run a complete Franchise mode, online. The removed that the next year and that ish didn't ever come back.
I don't wish that on anybody but forgive me if I don't share peoples outrage about this other stuff in the first year.