Lets be honest, Young wasn’t exactly lighting it up from the pocket, but he won games. And while trying to pick up a first down against Tampa, Young ran out of bounds, into a speaker and pulled a hamstring.
He would hampered by the injury throughout the season and clearly wasn’t the player he was the year before. He would finish with just nine touchdowns and 17 interceptions.
The next season, Young was booed at home, contemplated retirement and had the entire Titans organization looking for him after they thought he’d become suicidal. As it turned out, Young was enjoying chicken wings while watching MNF and had no idea he was feeling so down. T
his was followed up by a statement, from his mother, through the media and his eventual benching in favor of Kerry Collins.
Tomlinson claims he and EA couldn’t come to an agreement on a contract dollar figure for the for the 2008 cover. I’d like to think that that was his way of saying, “Thanks but no thanks, I’m enjoying all of my success and all of my tendons working properly.”
Madden 2009: Brett Farve. Almost, but not quite as cooky as Young's ordeal, as crazy as that sounds. It started in March that same year when Farve announced his retirement.
EA decided to put Favre on the cover anyway making him only the second retired player since Barry Sanders to be on the cover of the game. Favre would have a change of heart and we’d go through that entire fiasco with Favre and the Packers before he was eventually traded to the Jets.
So, now we have Madden '09, with Brett Favre on the cover, wearing a Green Bay Packers uniform, only he plays for the New York Jets.
After setting an NFL record for most consecutive games started at quarterback, Favre would go on to sustain the first major injury of his career, tearing his biceps late in the season.
Madden 2010: Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald. This will be the first time in the game’s 20-plus-year history that two players will be on the game’s cover. Both players have enjoyed stellar careers thus far with Polamalu helping the Pittsburgh to two Super Bowl titles in four seasons while Fitzgerald has blossomed into arguably the league’s best receiver.
Their teams meeting in last year’s championship game, two players on opposite sides of the ball hoping to not only get back to the promised land this season but bring a championship to their respective cities. But in order to bring those Lombardi trophies home, both players will have to find a way to stay the field.
It’s an unofficial league-wide honor that in the words of Jay-Z can be a “Gift and a Curse.” Only time will tell.
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