January 01, 2009

Gaming News: Maurice Jones-Drew Featured in TV Ad For "Madden NFL 09"

Just a quickie here the day before the launch of Madden NFL 09. As noted in a post last week, Brett Farvre, poster boy for this latest release in the series, is now officially a New York Jet regardless of what the box indicates. And tomorrow being release day there's pretty much no way EA can get different cover art going, but that doesn't mean that they can't put a new face on their summer cash cow.

Last night while flipping the channels around I happened to see the commercial below for Madden 09 featuring Jaguars Mighty Might Maurice Jones-Drew. Although he does verbally toss Farvre aside and the Madden logo is altered to read "Madden NFL 09: The game adapts to you," it's hard to say if Maurice was the runner up for the original spot and this footage existed or whether this spot was thrown together in the last few weeks. Either way, it was interesting to see the ad right before the game's release.


--Hobson's Choice



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