Favre confirmed for Madden NFL 09 cover

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Apr 24, 2008 9:04 pm PT

EA Sports confirms the recently retired Green Bay Packers QB will be the cover athlete of its football franchise's 20th installment; first trailer inside.

During his 16 years with the Green Bay Packers, quarterback Brett Favre won numerous accolades and awards. His lengthy resume boasts one Super Bowl championship, two Super Bowl appearances, and nine Pro Bowls. He was named MVP by the Associated Press for three years, was a seven-time All-Pro selection, and was named the 2007 Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.

Brett Favre: So agile he even evaded the "Madden Curse."

Favre also holds a series of NFL records: most consecutive starts by an NFL quarterback (253), most career passing touchdowns (442), most career passing yards (61,655), most career pass attempts (8,758), and most career games with at least three touchdowns (63). As many citizens of his adopted home state of Wisconsin painfully know, he also has the dubious distinction of having thrown the most interceptions in NFL history--a whopping 288.

Although Favre retired last month, he will receive one more football-related honor. This evening, Electronic Arts confirmed rumors that Favre will indeed be the cover athlete for Madden NFL 09, the 20th installment in its best-selling football franchise. Unlike NCAA Football 09, which has differing cover athletes for different platforms, Favre's grizzled countenance will appear on the DS, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable versions of the game. (As previously reported, EA Sports elected to discontinue the Madden series on the PC.)

370 Comments

  • necronaux

    Posted Aug 2, 2008 10:02 am PT

    If he accepts the job in the head office in the Marketing department, will they have to change the cover (and uniform skins) to picture him in a suit?

  • itwiz90

    Posted Jun 17, 2008 7:41 pm PT

    I have Madden 2006 for the PC and I have no complaints accept for the draft and create a player modes.

  • Gladestone1

    Posted May 29, 2008 3:10 am PT

    Eli did not get owned..He turned down the offer ea did ask him..He said hell no cause of the curse...Im glad he did..If the curse does exist snickers..My qb will still be healthy to DEFEND THE CHAMPIONSHIP...Fealt good to say that in caps )...Bring it on New England will own you again this year..Loved Tom brady on his back side every play hahaha..

    Any how bret favre is a icon...He retired also he cant get injured..Safe way to break the curse rofl...First shot balot on the hall of fame, if i ever saw one...When a player like this is gone from the game, we will miss him...Bret had a ton of heart, thats what it takes to win games heart..

    Good luck bret enjoy retirement...Dont work for the rest of your life..Enjoy life to the fullest an rest, well deserved....

  • NBarnesRHD

    Posted May 19, 2008 7:58 pm PT

    Sniper Wolf-
    Uhhh.. It's cause those guys didn't want to be on the cover- You ever hear of the Madden Curse? Whoever is on the cover that season either gets injured or has a bad season. They don't just put whoever is the best player that year on the cover, the players have to agree to it, and if I was a player, I'd NEVER want to be on the cover of Madden, unless I was retired like Brett Favre.

  • Sniper_Wolf25

    Posted May 19, 2008 1:33 pm PT

    ...and anyone else notice that this is the first white guy on the cover of madden?
    i mean, between 2001 and now, peyton manning broke the TD record, won MVP, and won a superbowl
    and tom brady has won like 4 superbowls and broke the TD record, and won the mvp
    seriously, how did ray lewis or vince young deserve it and these guys didnt?

  • Sniper_Wolf25

    Posted May 19, 2008 1:29 pm PT

    lol right
    jay cutler will be just as capable
    hell, he probably had it all last year too, and it was untreated then

  • louzero

    Posted May 3, 2008 10:03 pm PT

    Jay Cutler has type 1 diabties. He wont be playing football for too much longer.

  • Smoky_Hill

    Posted May 1, 2008 2:52 pm PT

    JAY CUTLER should be on the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Next Farve watch and see

  • Rhen_Var

    Posted Apr 30, 2008 9:57 pm PT

    While it's nice he made it the cover what about gameplay? Something Revolutionary!
    We get sports games every year but their way to similar to each other and they get the Recycled Demerit because of that.

  • GodOfSyn

    Posted Apr 30, 2008 10:18 am PT

    Well being from Wisconsin, I love seeing our favorite QB on the cover, he is always such a good guy when seeing him on the local news. He has broken pretty much every record out there, including the dreaded interception record... but this is great to see him on the cover. Hope he comes back this year, he hasn't technically signed the retirement forms yet I hear, so there is a chance, plus he has to go out with a super bowl ring, we were close last year, but they didn't seem to feel like playing when at the home game in the ice bowl. (though I can't blame them, but still...) Cool to see other's who love Favre as much as Wisconsinites do.

  • VenomRitual

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 3:39 pm PT

    great choice for the cover. just wish the game would be as amazing.

  • bluej33

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 3:11 pm PT

    That's cool, I guess...good for Favre. But it'll be a boring game, like always -- maybe if there were some COMPETITION, we'd be getting better football games. But at this point, it's basically just buy a single Madden game and you've got all the football you really need on that console. Bah.

  • McGregor

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 1:56 pm PT

    I'll be a Cowboys fan til the day I die, but favre deserves this. And for the record, madden sucks. I hope the backbreaker (license or engine, not quite sure on that) can get some sort of NFL licensing. If not, I'm at the point where i don't care if i see any NFL players names anymore, just give me some new, decent, gameplay!!

  • Merl57

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 11:59 am PT

    Same game every year because there is one company that has the license

  • HBOMB29

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 9:43 am PT

    BOTTOMLINE HES A HALL OF FAMER why not have him on the cover he had a great year last year and even though i dont like the packers he embodies everything youd want in a football player and a qb so whats the problem with him on the cover, there shouldnt be one.

  • TallicaFan2005

    Posted Apr 28, 2008 9:16 am PT

    How come everyone who knocks Favre here spells his name wrong? I assume none of them know anything about him.

  • ThnkU4thePoison

    Posted Apr 27, 2008 3:31 pm PT

    Thats interesting EA trying to discontinue the game on PC, although I beleive its true ive never even heard of someone play Madden on the pc. And secondly, yeah Farve was a great player, and he was decent last year, but isnt it about which player did outstanding from year to the next? Personally I think Romo should be on the front cover, he or, as much as I hate to say it, Owens, both did astronomical this year, as well as Eli. But thats just me

  • irockout1

    Posted Apr 27, 2008 8:57 am PT

    Awesome,good to see a true legend on the cover.

  • Heromoua

    Posted Apr 27, 2008 5:33 am PT

    wow, huge differece between 04 and up.........

  • trw534

    Posted Apr 26, 2008 11:14 pm PT

    Thats awsome brett farve is great and i am going to buy this game because of him being on the cover... plus i like madden

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