Favre to remain a Packer ... on Madden cover (EA has a plan!) [update]

by James Ransom-Wiley { Aug 7th 2008 at 11:27AM }

With Brett Favre booked for a one-way ticket out of retirement and into New York (as a Jet!), Madden NFL 09 will look decidedly vintage when it releases next week with Favre on the cover ... as a Packer. Some may attribute the gaffe to evidence of the "Madden Curse" at work (c'mon, it can do better than that!), but EA Sports boss Peter Moore assures, "There's a plan."

While IGN has already confirmed there will be no second printing -- Favre will remain a Packer on the surface of Madden 09, at least -- a Crispy Gamer interview with Moore and marketing director David Tinson published last week addressed the possibility of Favre switching teams; to which Moore offered his vague assurance. "It will ship with what you've seen. Yes. And then we'll have a plan if he's not [a Packer]," Tinson added. Day-one roster update confirmed!

Update: EA will indeed release a day-one update placing Favre on the Jets (and reflecting any other relevant roster changes), reports MTV Multiplayer. But that's not all: "We do not plan to re-issue packaging, but WILL offer a free downloadable cover in the coming days on easports.com featuring Brett Favre in a Jets uniform. Fans can print this new cover out and insert it into the case of Madden NFL 09," a company spokesperson revealed to MTV. See, EA did have a plan! ... But if you're not feelin' it, why not make your own cover?

[Image credit: FirstCuts]

Tags: brett-favre, ea, ea-sports, madden, madden-09, madden-curse, peter-moore

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fanboy @ Aug 7th 2008 11:33AM

Too bad he isn't playing tonight..I'm going to see them against the Browns..HERE WE GO BROWNIES HERE WE GO....

John @ Aug 8th 2008 3:12AM

In case you forgot Cleveland Sucks.

Da Stillers are gonna run over them again this year. ;P

The_Punisher @ Aug 7th 2008 12:01PM

MADDEN CURSE = WIN

Fenix @ Aug 7th 2008 11:37AM

He needs to stay his ass retired. I got sick of going to ESPN.com and seeing his grill all over the front page when there is far way better sports news to cover.

FOXHOUND @ Aug 7th 2008 2:43PM

As a Green Bay fan, I wholeheartedly agree. He's just setting himself up for an even more tarnished legacy by continuing to play, let alone a team with little hopes of making the playoffs. And you know he's going to throw more interceptions, thus increasing that horrible record he obtained last year.

Brett, ya eff'd up, mang.
I blame Cameron Diaz and the Madden Curse. LoL

The Beta Max @ Aug 7th 2008 11:49AM

Born and raised in Wisconsin and I say he should have never come back. Why didn't he just stay retired and take the Packers' bribe to do so? 20+ million to not work? SOLD!

tmacairjordan87 @ Aug 7th 2008 11:48AM

I can't even escape Favre on a game blog >.<

I really hope someone gives him a career ending injury on game 1, specially now that he's on my dad's favorite team >:)

AwesomeTown @ Aug 7th 2008 11:49AM

How bout they do roster updates all the time like they used to do on the PC so people wouldn't have to buy the same game every year... oh wait, nevermind.

Klepto @ Aug 7th 2008 4:05PM

But then they wouldn't be able to bend over and rape the console retards.

Bright Motive @ Aug 7th 2008 11:50AM

At least he's out of my thick Wisconsinite hair. Good riddance.

NATO_Duke @ Aug 7th 2008 11:58AM

They should have his uniform white and include markers. Today you could draw in the Jets uniform, then the next day you could draw in something else.

Donald @ Aug 7th 2008 3:58PM

Like a penis!

SoxFan13 @ Aug 7th 2008 11:59AM

Wouldn't Favre have been retired in the game anyhow? Why was he going to be on the Packers in Madden roster if this whole "coming out of retirement" business didn't start until about a month ago?

vidGuy @ Aug 7th 2008 12:04PM

Favre was going to be on the Madden Legends roster, but they anticipated that they would have to move him if this whole un-retirement thing continued.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/890/890104p1.html

vidGuy @ Aug 7th 2008 12:02PM

Packer fan since birth and I gotta agree with Beta Max, he should have stayed retired and had his storybook ending. As it is, he embarrassed himself and the franchise, disrupted several teams' training camps, and pissed off a lot of Green Bay fans. Have to say, Driver was right - he does look ugly in another jersey.

As for Madden, EA announced weeks ago that Favre would be on the Legends roster unless he was traded to another team, in which case there would be an update to move him. Old news?

LordChimp @ Aug 7th 2008 12:10PM

I like how the football looks like it's at least an inch off his hands. Almost like it is hovering.

Badger_badger_badger @ Aug 7th 2008 12:58PM

Welcome to sports games.

Imaginationland Warrior @ Aug 7th 2008 12:10PM

I'm just really glad that he didn't go back to Green
Bay. Now noone in the NFC can stop my Dallas Cowboys. NOONE, MWA HA HA HA HA HA.

vidGuy @ Aug 7th 2008 12:14PM

Except Tony "Butterfingers" Romo, you mean.

Imaginationland Warrior @ Aug 7th 2008 12:24PM

awwww

Scott @ Aug 7th 2008 12:38PM

Giants did fine when it mattered last year...

SUPER BOWL XLII CHAMPIONS!!!

playwhutyalike @ Aug 7th 2008 12:13PM

The only thing he was great in was Something About Mary.

"Brett Favre, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to play the Dolphins, dumbass."

Ricksta @ Aug 7th 2008 12:50PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDC6P16hSg

playwhutyalike @ Aug 7th 2008 12:53PM

Missed the lines by a couple of words, but I also forgot how awesome Chris Elliott was in that movie.

Michael @ Aug 9th 2008 1:57AM

That qoute is amazingly relevent since he is coming down here to Miami.
What an amazing upset that would be.

Nate @ Aug 7th 2008 12:18PM

My stars, how gauche!

Seriously, who the hell cares?

MC Double Def DP @ Aug 7th 2008 12:30PM

with the Madden curse working against this old geezer, he's going to be crushed on the field. Mark my words!!!

Jfk Aok @ Aug 7th 2008 12:36PM

Can someone please tell the guy that either somebody in his heritage can't spell or someone in his heritage can't pronounce.

Favre != Farve

His Great-Great-Great Granddad that came to America had dyslexia perhaps?

Immigration worker: Name please.
Elder Farve: Farve
Immigration worker: Spell it.
Elder Farve: F-A-V-R-E
Immigration worker: ..................
Elder Farve: .............
Immigartion worker: ..............ok then. Next!

PSN & GAMERTAG: jorojoserojas - Wii FC: 0749-8609-3752-6926 @ Aug 7th 2008 12:43PM

"Immi-GAR-tion" worker?

;)

Jfk Aok @ Aug 7th 2008 12:45PM

DOH! I mean,uhh, it's intentional irony! yeah, that's it.

Fenix @ Aug 7th 2008 12:47PM

lol, nice catch jjrojas!

Richie @ Aug 7th 2008 2:50PM

The correct French pronunciation is actually a little difficult for English-only speakers - it's "fah-vruh", but the "uh" is sort of a hard H sound.

So, yes, you're an idiot. His last name is correct, but pronounced incorrectly by the vast majority of America who are too lazy to learn a different language. He shares it with many famous Frenchman including Jules Favre who, with Victor Hugo (the author of Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris which you may know as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), attempted to lead an armed revolt against Napoleon III.

Jfk Aok @ Aug 8th 2008 9:34AM

I was joking. The irony that you're talking about french history in your post and acting stuck-up is also a joke, right?
No? That's a shame.

Jfk Aok @ Aug 7th 2008 12:47PM

That quarterback is holding that football with his psychic energy. That, or he has two-sided sticky tape on his palm.

juju187 @ Aug 7th 2008 12:48PM

39 years old never injured on the jets in the AFC hmmm...
i got my odds on the madden curse continuing

jaybcorreia @ Aug 7th 2008 10:43PM

haha the jets lol, Patriots vs jets will be alot more interesting and will definently mean alot more.
GO PATS!!! can't wait

Young_Nastyman @ Aug 8th 2008 3:03AM

18-1

sorry couldn't resist :P

epsilon343 @ Aug 7th 2008 3:59PM

Surprising move for EA. I would've assumed they'd label the Packers version as a "Collector's Edition" and then reprint the game and force you to buy it again to have Favre as a Jet...

Jared @ Aug 7th 2008 4:07PM

I think that box art that someone made is way cooler. Moss is awesome. If I was a Madden fan, I would seriously consider printing out that box art.

Broseph @ Aug 7th 2008 4:13PM

I'd say the madden curse cursed us all, it got him reinstated in the NFL lol

YoMamma @ Aug 7th 2008 4:17PM

http://www.freewebs.com/customsportscovers/apps/photos/album.jsp?albumID=1066761

http://www.freewebs.com/customsportscovers/apps/photos/album.jsp?albumID=551264

willeekinz @ Aug 7th 2008 5:01PM

The new Madden 09 Replacement covers are now available and can be found here:

PS3 Version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/willeekinz/2742510646/sizes/o/

XBOX 360 Version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/willeekinz/2741674217/sizes/o/

Thanks for everything Brett we will miss you!

Deozaan @ Aug 7th 2008 6:59PM

Speaking of new game covers, whatever happened to that Okami case cover I ordered 5 months ago?

John @ Aug 8th 2008 3:16AM

Saying no one in the NFC can stop your team is like saying the hospital nursery is unable to KO tyson.

vidGuy @ Aug 8th 2008 11:06AM

And what conference won the Super Bowl last year, beating a team that no one in the AFC could beat? Oh yeah, the NFC.

John @ Aug 9th 2008 8:47AM

Even a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while...

And fuck the PATs, the steelers are in a much tougher division and manage to have as good a record most years, and without cheating.

let's see the giants continue to produce more than once, and then you can talk

stefan.vonimhof @ Aug 8th 2008 4:03PM

Not sure if this is true but apparently packers fans will boo when you play as favre (as a jet) in packers stadium.. if so nice touch!

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Jets_Favre_to_Wear_New_Uniform_on_New_Madden_09_Cover