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  • GoodImmigrant
    Rookie
    • Jun 2008
    • 172

    #1

    NFL or Madden?

    Does Madden make you watch the NFL or,
    Does watching the NFL make you play Madden?

    I got into watching football by playing Madden 03. Now I watch football but I'm starting to pull away from Madden.

    which came first for you, and do you think you'd be less into the NFL if madden didn't exist? or vice versa.
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    Playing Madden makes me want to watch the NFL
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    Watching the NFL makes me want to play Madden
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  • roadman
    *ll St*r
    • Aug 2003
    • 26339

    #2
    Re: NFL or Madden?

    None of the above.

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    • JaymeeAwesome
      Dynasty Guru
      • Jan 2005
      • 4152

      #3
      Re: NFL or Madden?

      I have always watched the Patriots and played madden. It wasn't until fantasy football that I became a real NFL fan. I usually finding myself during the 4pm games warning to play madden. Now with XBone I can do both. Winning all around.
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      • GoodImmigrant
        Rookie
        • Jun 2008
        • 172

        #4
        Re: NFL or Madden?

        I am seriously considering not buying Madden for the first time since Madden 03 and I'm wondering if not playing Madden will affect how much I watch the NFL. I'll for sure watch my team's games, but I don't know if other teams games will be as watchable for me. The thing about Madden is that it makes me more aware of what players to watch for in all the different teams.

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        • jpdavis82
          All Star
          • Sep 2005
          • 8794

          #5
          Re: NFL or Madden?

          Originally posted by GoodImmigrant
          I am seriously considering not buying Madden for the first time since Madden 03 and I'm wondering if not playing Madden will affect how much I watch the NFL. I'll for sure watch my team's games, but I don't know if other teams games will be as watchable for me. The thing about Madden is that it makes me more aware of what players to watch for in all the different teams.
          If you've bought any Madden since 10, I have no idea why you would skip now. 15 will be much improved over 10-25


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          • Unlucky 13
            MVP
            • Apr 2009
            • 1707

            #6
            Re: NFL or Madden?

            Madden augments my NFL experience, but it certainly isn't a reason for me to watch football. For me, the NFL is only behind my family and my health in importance in my life. Madden is a good way to enjoy the league and play video games at the same time. Its really interesting to think that there are people (I would assume much younger than myself, at 36) who became football fans because of Madden though.
            Anyone who claims to be a fan of two teams in the same pro sport is actually a fan of none.

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            • Beardown
              Rookie
              • Aug 2003
              • 445

              #7
              Re: NFL or Madden?

              My desire to play Madden is entirely from my love of the NFL. I guess this poll may hinge on age, I am 46 and was watching football a long time before Madden was around.

              I do play Madden year round and not just when it is football season but that too is because it is a way for me to still be involved with the NFL when the season is over.

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              • BezO
                MVP
                • Jul 2004
                • 4414

                #8
                Re: NFL or Madden?

                Need 3rd option: Watching the NFL makes me wish EA made a better football game that I'd actually play
                Shout out to The Watcher! Where you at bruh?

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                • Tengo Juego
                  MVP
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 2524

                  #9
                  Re: NFL or Madden?

                  Watching any level of football makes me want to play video game football. But the reality is that I just don't enjoy any of the modern options. Be it NCAA or Madden.

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                  • cthurt
                    MVP
                    • Oct 2009
                    • 2525

                    #10
                    Re: NFL or Madden?

                    If anything watching the NFl games, make my experience with madden less enjoyable, becuase I cant replicate what I see in the NFl games when I play Madden.

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                    • azdawgpound
                      All Star
                      • Nov 2009
                      • 5533

                      #11
                      Re: NFL or Madden?

                      We'll I watch nfl before there was even a madden been watching nfl since the early 70's im 43 now... so even if madden wasen't around which it wasen't for most time I watched nfl I'd still watch the nfl.

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                      • Gronk4M13
                        MVP
                        • Apr 2012
                        • 3495

                        #12
                        Re: NFL or Madden?

                        Playing Madden made me get into the NFL.
                        Ravens: In Ozzie We Trust

                        Yankees: #AllRise

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                        • OhMrHanky
                          MVP
                          • Aug 2012
                          • 1898

                          #13
                          Re: NFL or Madden?

                          This actually an interesting question. And, as others have said, I grew up watching football first before madden came out. Before madden came out, I loved football and played every football game that came out. Good ol tecmo bowl that wasn't very realistic, but it was football and it had the NFL players in it. Even 10 yd fight, that's a classic. So, for me, I was always looking/waiting for a football video game to come out so I could be the QB/RB/HC/owner of my own team. In quite the opposite fashion, I grew up not caring for soccer much (as most Americans do). I got bored with madden and really all other sports games about 5-6 years ago, so I decided to pick up FIFA. After playing that game and understanding the sport better through 'playing' it finally, I have grown to absolutely love the sport. So, I can see where someone who maybe never watched football could play madden and become interested in the sport itself. And, of course, if u played madden FIRST, and then started watching football, u were probably like, 'wtf??!! THIS is what football REALLY looks like?!! Geez, it's SO MUCH BETTER than madden!' Lol


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                          • kjcheezhead
                            MVP
                            • May 2009
                            • 3118

                            #14
                            Re: NFL or Madden?

                            I just watch NFL classics when I'm in need of a "fix". I haven't popped madden into the console since December.

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                            • Guru03
                              Rookie
                              • Feb 2012
                              • 432

                              #15
                              Re: NFL or Madden?

                              Madden made me love football and the NFL.

                              That is why how good a Madden edition is way more important to me than how my favorite teams are doing in real life.
                              - Arizona Cardinals (Eternal Punishment)

                              - Clemson

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