Madden NFL 25 - Connected Franchise: Relocating Your Franchise

[Aggies67]

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I don't want the Rams to ever go back to LA. One of the reasons they left was lack of fan support. Boo Bird City. Fickle fans galore.

I'll never forget this true story (saw it with my own eyes): In 1980 or 81, the Rams hosted the Cowboys. Rams were ahead by 24 points, in the 3rd or 4th quarter. A Rams receiver dropped a pass and the fans booed. I kid you not.

That kind of stuff happened all the time.

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

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I swear, some people here are never even grateful, or realize how much work goes into these things.

They made a decision, not to restrict your decisions, but to try to make everything integrated. The new relocation is actually integrated into the system, unlike what it used to be. Hold your judgement until you actually experience it.

[jpdavis82]

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I swear, some people here are never even grateful, or realize how much work goes into these things.

They made a decision, not to restrict your decisions, but to try to make everything integrated. The new relocation is actually integrated into the system, unlike what it used to be. Hold your judgement until you actually experience it.

I'd say probably 90% of the OS Madden bashers wouldn't even work at EA if hired, because of the hours it requires.

[Kaiser Wilhelm]

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I'd say probably 90% of the OS Madden bashers wouldn't even work at EA if hired, because of the hours it requires.

Well, I bash Madden and EA as much as the next guy. I'm not a math and science guy though, I'm a politics, economics and history guy, hence the name.

There are legitimate points for bashing EA and what they do, like using the same basic engine for 9 years. This is just people being pissed because they didn't get the Moon. It's exaggeration. EA went fairly over-the-top with this relocation, getting Nike in on the action, getting the audio to feel organic and more.

[d11king]

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I don't want the Rams to ever go back to LA. One of the reasons they left was lack of fan support. Boo Bird City. Fickle fans galore.

I'll never forget this true story (saw it with my own eyes): In 1980 or 81, the Rams hosted the Cowboys. Rams were ahead by 24 points, in the 3rd or 4th quarter. A Rams receiver dropped a pass and the fans booed. I kid you not.

That kind of stuff happened all the time.

LMAO! That just sounds horrific hahahaha. LA fans, we are some of the worst, excluding myself of course. Outside of more than half of them being fair weather fans, a good percentage don't even watch or keep up with the sport. Dodger tickets are so cheap, that its the "kick it spot". When I had Instagram a couple of the people I'd follow would post a **** ton of "@Dodger Stadium" pictures... So I hit them up, "hey let's to the Angels/Dodgers game, but I wanna go to a good pitching matchup, who would you rather see?" Their response, "oh I don't know anyone on the team, I just go to the game to support...." -_______- I hate fans like that... And then have the audacity to call themselves Dodger fans... and my fellow Laker breathren are worse than that.

I kind of believe football wouldn't do well in Los Angeles, especially now since everyone is pretty much a fan of everyone. Go to a neighborhood with 60 houses, you might will definitely find a fan of each team, so why relocate say the Jags or Rams or whoever back to LA, when Joe Blow is a Patriots fan? But boy I would love to see the Cowboys or Rams in person...

[TDenverFan]

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? the NCAA teambuilder sound bank has over 3.500 team names in it and I believe they still add to it every year.

I'm not knocking EA for this mode as I said at least their trying, but when they're supposed "little brother" has a better create a team feature going on 5 years now it's just a little sad

For NCAA, you can use any of the names on this list and the announcers will say it:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/06/ncaa11_teambuilder_nicknames.txt

I get for the first few years you may not have this many, but having at least a few hundred names is feasible. Plus, EA sports used to have a long list of generic logos, what happened to those?

[debauchlord]

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For NCAA, you can use any of the names on this list and the announcers will say it:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/06/ncaa11_teambuilder_nicknames.txt

I get for the first few years you may not have this many, but having at least a few hundred names is feasible. Plus, EA sports used to have a long list of generic logos, what happened to those?

Madden 25 is a bit different, as they came up with nicknames, backstories, audio, and hired Nike to make uniform designs for these imaginary teams. A bit more work went into them than I would have expected. Hopefully future iterations will have more than 17(?) relocation possibilities.

[jpdavis82]

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Madden 25 is a bit different, as they came up with nicknames, backstories, audio, and hired Nike to make uniform designs for these imaginary teams. A bit more work went into them than I would have expected. Hopefully future iterations will have more than 17(?) relocation possibilities.

I like the fact that they restricted it to only 17 relocation possibilities. This is realistic, as is the fact that they give you a few names choices for teams based on the fans voting.

[slick589]

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I like the fact that they restricted it to only 17 relocation possibilities. This is realistic, as is the fact that they give you a few names choices for teams based on the fans voting.

Agreed but not letting us pick our own color schemes or design uniforms sucks. They could just give us all the Nike components for uniforms and let us make our own. How is that any different the giving us 3 uniform combos?

[d11king]

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I like the fact that they restricted it to only 17 relocation possibilities. This is realistic, as is the fact that they give you a few names choices for teams based on the fans voting.

I do think however though, some of the locations are a bit strange. Mexico City? Dublin? Sacramento??? Sacramento doesn't even know where to find the funds to build their NBA team a new stadium correct? I know Las Vegas has its issues on why they can't have a professional team, but I'd rather them then Mexico City. But realistically, as I stated in an earlier post, there's only about 3-4 teams in the NFL who would realistically relocate, and that's Jags, Bills, Rams off the top of my head. Anyone else, like Oakland, San Diego, Minnesota, they just need new stadiums.

[Td1984]

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My moves:

-Rams (or Raiders or Chargers) back to LA

-Jags to London (even if London being in the AFC "South" would be kind of weird- suppose I could move Miami there instead since they're having issues getting a new stadium or getting the new one renovated)

-Bills to Toronto

-Jets to Brooklyn

-Vikings get new stadium

Not sure I'd make all the moves in one CFM.

[The Craigler]

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I do think however though, some of the locations are a bit strange. Mexico City? Dublin? Sacramento??? Sacramento doesn't even know where to find the funds to build their NBA team a new stadium correct? I know Las Vegas has its issues on why they can't have a professional team, but I'd rather them then Mexico City. But realistically, as I stated in an earlier post, there's only about 3-4 teams in the NFL who would realistically relocate, and that's Jags, Bills, Rams off the top of my head. Anyone else, like Oakland, San Diego, Minnesota, they just need new stadiums.

Minnesota is building a stadium that will be ready in 2016, so they're for sure not moving.

[ACardAttack]

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except that London is quite a feasible place for a franchise to be relocated to in the next 10 years..

Not Dublin, that's probably just in there following the success of the emerald isle classic coupled with the fact that half of america regards itself as "irish"

London is probably further than 10 years away if I had to guess, I could be wrong, but hope not

[Noble Evildoer]

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Anybody have any guesses for the available names for each city? Growing up in Little Rock and now living in Jonesboro, AR I've always said I'd root for any pro teams in Memphis, so if I buy Madden I might try to move the Jags there (AFC South works, plus in-state rivalry with Titans, and immediately able to move).

As far as Memphis names I'm thinking they'll probably go with Showboats (USFL team), Blues (music style very popular in the city), and either Southmen or Grizzlies (Southmen being the name of the WFL team and Grizzlies being the name the team used when it tried to get into the NFL). I could also see Hound Dogs (attempted 90s expansion team that lost to Jacksonville and Carolina) being an option.

[d11king]

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Anybody have any guesses for the available names for each city? Growing up in Little Rock and now living in Jonesboro, AR I've always said I'd root for any pro teams in Memphis, so if I buy Madden I might try to move the Jags there (AFC South works, plus in-state rivalry with Titans, and immediately able to move).

As far as Memphis names I'm thinking they'll probably go with Showboats (USFL team), Blues (music style very popular in the city), and either Southmen or Grizzlies (Southmen being the name of the WLAF team and Grizzlies being the name the team used when it tried to get into the NFL). I could also see Hound Dogs (attempted 90s expansion team that lost to Jacksonville and Carolina) being an option.

Hmm, for Los Angeles, my guesses are

LA Comets (from the LA powerhouse basketball school Westchester)
Red and black

LA Waves (would hope not) would rather have LA Sharks... but for the beaches
Navy blue, light blue and silver

LA Suns (for the weather)
Can't think of a colorway

LA Stars (self explanatory)

Can almost bet, one of the nicknames in the game will have to do with astrology. If not; that would be a big fail on EA.