Sony dropped the ball for you, Xbox got theirs on time, stop blaming EA for something that isn't their fault
FIFA - EA
NHL (not as elite as it was but 09 and 10 were both voted the best sports games in their respective years) - EA
Also EA's most recent baseball offering just won OS's best sports game title (sadly that was MVP 05, and good things were said about NCAA MVP Baseball, and NCAA MVP Baseball 07), they couldn't make any more after that because 2K grabbed the 3rd party rights to the MLB (Sony being a 1st party producer could make their own game which yielded the Show franchise)
EA put them in the Amazon preorders. The changes to the grey jersey have been noted in the Uniform Updates 5.0 thread.
It was the first update, not everything was going to be included in the
first update.