OT: Madden Nation on ESPN 2 at 11pm Reminder

redneck · Post by **redneck** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:28 pm

Guys,

Just a reminder that Madden Nation is on tonight at 11pm on ESPN 2. Some of these guys are real jokers who take this game way too seriously.

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Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:50 pm

I hate to admit it but I like the show. It's really not all about the game, but more about each of the individual personalities that play it that I find appealing. Like you said, it sometimes looks foolish on how serious these guys take it. It's almost like they think they are actually in the real nfl themselves.

Badgun · Post by **Badgun** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:01 pm

I got to meet a few of those guys in Charlotte during the Madden Challenge back in November.

These guys all travel to every Madden Challenge site until they win one. One guy went to 13 cities last year trying to win one.

Anyway, Pretty Boy is like a legend to those guys. When he showed up everyone treated him like a rock star. The dude in the dreadlocks was there too, but he was much more laid back and cool.

matthewk · Post by **matthewk** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:41 pm

The thing I learned from watching this show (once) is that the spin move is king

bdunn13 · Post by **bdunn13** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:53 pm

There is more cheese in those things than there is in all of Wisconsin.

Inuyasha · Post by **Inuyasha** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:36 pm

Badgun wrote:I got to meet a few of those guys in Charlotte during the Madden Challenge back in November.

These guys all travel to every Madden Challenge site until they win one. One guy went to 13 cities last year trying to win one.

Anyway, Pretty Boy is like a legend to those guys. When he showed up everyone treated him like a rock star. The dude in the dreadlocks was there too, but he was much more laid back and cool.

I was in LV earlier this year when they had the big money tourney there. I didnt go to LV for the tourney, it was just happening while I was there. Anyway, Pretty Boy got beat in the finals but it was his first finals so I think he'll be the favorite to win it all next year.

AJColossal · Post by **AJColossal** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:11 pm

As a grown man, I struggle with subjecting myself to call another grown man "Pretty Boy".

Maybe it's just me.

Boom · Post by **Boom** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:45 pm

Haven't watched it. I'll have to set the old DVR and check this out.

EDiddy · Post by **EDiddy** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:55 am

Wacthed last night, horrible. Nothing exciting at all watching crazy young kids play madden. And the play is all cheese, all the time.

Boom · Post by **Boom** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:34 pm

Well, in their favor there's a lot more cheese online then I saw in the little game footage they showed during the show.

My biggest problem is with the way they behaved like a bunch of punks with all the trash talking and what-not.

I swear to you all right now, if I'd been on that show and anyone of them got up in my face the way they did I would have been DQ'd for excessive force.

It's one thing to talk s***. It's a completely different story (and down right disrespectful) to get up in somebody's face the way Sherm did and start yelling pop-pop-pop!!! etc.

I'll give him pop alright.

EDiddy · Post by **EDiddy** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:47 pm

Ha Funny Boom. Yeah thats annoying. As mentioned the spin is used a lot.
Did you see the clip where rudi johnson spun from the left hash and he stopped spinning at the right hash, in one SPIN!! Picture a real football field, that is 1000000% impossible, inless you are from Krpyton or a realtive of William Wallace where some evolution has taken place. CHEESE!!!!! I HATE CHEESE!!! I am the anti-Motery Jack from Chip and Dale rescue rangers. I HATATTATATATATA CHEEHEEHEEHEEESE

slyguy · Post by **slyguy** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:52 pm

Boom wrote:Well, in their favor there's a lot more cheese online then I saw in the little game footage they showed during the show.

My biggest problem is with the way they behaved like a bunch of punks with all the trash talking and what-not.

I swear to you all right now, if I'd been on that show and anyone of them got up in my face the way they did I would have been DQ'd for excessive force.

It's one thing to talk s***. It's a completely different story (and down right disrespectful) to get up in somebody's face the way Sherm did and start yelling pop-pop-pop!!! etc.

I'll give him pop alright.

Boom i felt the same way, just play the game u can talk $hit but theres no need to get up in anyones face.I was telling my kid if he did that to me it would have been game over for him

Badgun · Post by **Badgun** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:34 pm

Boom wrote:Well, in their favor there's a lot more cheese online then I saw in the little game footage they showed during the show.

My biggest problem is with the way they behaved like a bunch of punks with all the trash talking and what-not.

I swear to you all right now, if I'd been on that show and anyone of them got up in my face the way they did I would have been DQ'd for excessive force.

It's one thing to talk s***. It's a completely different story (and down right disrespectful) to get up in somebody's face the way Sherm did and start yelling pop-pop-pop!!! etc.

I'll give him pop alright.

Actually at the Madden Challenge you are allowed to talk trash and get up in someone's face. No one did it to me, but I saw it happen a few times while I was walking around. The one thing they won't allow is for someone that's not playing to talk to you or the other player. I was playing this one guy and his buddy was standing behind him and was telling him plays to call and the EA official sailed on him like a vulture. Told the guy if he said one more word, he would be removed from the building.

And surprisingly enough, there was very little cheese that I saw. I played 2 fourteen year olds and a 16 year old and they all played straight up for the most part.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:54 pm

I have never watched this show or taken paret in a Madden challenge. But I don't really care if people "cheese" to win in a tourney like that.

Although it is not how I like to play my game, nor many of us here and a big reason why I seldom play random games. If I am going online I want to play someone who is using football strategy, not a guy who is going for it on 4th and 8 from his 16 in the 1st quarter.

If i was in a tourney however and I found a play that someone could not stop, or a move they could not stop. I would use it until they did. because to me in that atmosphere, if it's not against the rules, then I am doing it. The object of a tournament is to win is it not?

EDiddy · Post by **EDiddy** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:20 pm

Cheese is Cheese. I dont play in tournaments so I really have no strategy when it comes to using clark kent spin moves. I guess if someone wants to get 100,000 for executing spin moves more power to em. Does not lessen the fact that the game has some serious flaws. And to exploit those flaws is stupid in my opinion.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:28 pm

EDiddy wrote:Cheese is Cheese. I dont play in tournaments so I really have no strategy when it comes to using clark kent spin moves. I guess if someone wants to get 100,000 for executing spin moves more power to em. Does not lessen the fact that the game has some serious flaws. And to exploit those flaws is stupid in my opinion.

Every game has flaws, and can be exploited even when money isn't involved, all you have to do is look at are old 2K5 league and the constant guys getting kicked for exploiting D Line flaws.

In a friendly league like that it has no place and those people were booted. If it was a money tourney, I have no problem with it because I'd better be prepared to play dirty if I want to win. Otherwise why bother.

But just so I am sure, you're saying if you could spin move your way to win 100,00 dollars you wouldn't do it?

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:46 pm

I think it is easier to counter cheese in Madden than it used to be. I played one of my cousins who does a whole lot of goofy crap, especially on defense (like moving Lavar Arrington out of position), and pasted his butt with the Chargers just running basic plays with Tomlinson and using the juke and truck stick. The biggest way to stick it to the spinmeisters is to let the CPU do the tackling if you miss, rather than switch to the nearest player.

I didn't think the play in the Madden Challenge was that bad. If you play with Vick, you should run with him, since he can't pass in real life so he shouldn't be able to in a videogame! The trash talking, though, was too much. It's one thing to get excited, it's another to act like you just won the goddamned Super Bowl when you're riding around in the Madden Dorkmobile.