In the pantheon of dominant Madden athletes, no one has ever matched Michael Vick in Madden 2004. Here's the inside story of how one highlight-reel game against Minnesota helped him become a video game legend.
Madden ratings czar Donny Moore evaluated NFL players in a distinctly lo-fi way: parked in front of a bank of large-screen TVs at a gastropub near his Florida home jotting down notes on a pad of paper. In 2002, a lot of those scribblings had to do with Moore trying to decipher Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.
"He had NFL defenders going, like, 'holy s---' to themselves, because even they had never seen anything this fast, even they couldn't realize how fast he was even as he was flying right by them," Moore said."He was unstoppable. At that moment, I knew it was crazy but I knew what Vick had to be to reflect real life, to represent that new level of running threat he brought as a guy with wide receiver speed playing quarterback.
That day, Vick sat in silence as we drove around the Virginia Tech campus one last time before he stepped into the NFL spotlight. When he was 6, he had promised his beloved grandma that he'd be an NFL star one day. But when it happened so quickly -- the draft, winning a playoff game at Lambeau Field, Nike commercials, events with Tiger Woods, the ESPYs and the Madden cover -- he found the whole experience surreal and overwhelming, he said. And, looking back, maybe a bit premature.
Moore refused. Thank goodness. That notion of stopping at nothing to create a game as close to reality as possible has been a driving principle behind Madden's success and growth over the past 20 years.
To make matters worse for Moore, the Atlanta Falcons in Madden '04 featured another offensive anomaly in the form of 6-foot-5 wide receiver Brian Finneran, who had an astronomical jump rating of 88. This meant you could scramble for days with Vick, make a sandwich, return a few calls and then just throw the ball up to Finneran 60 yards down the field and complete the pass almost every single time.
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