Madden 09 predicts Pittsburgh Steelers victory in Super Bowl XLIII

by Andrew Yoon on Jan 23rd 2009 3:22PM

The Super Bowl is only a few days away, and as expected, EA has run a Super Bowl simulation using this year's Madden. This year, the publisher expects the Pittsburgh Steelers to achieve a narrow victory over the Arizona Cardinals, with a final score of 28-24.

The annual Madden prediction has been fairly successful, with the exception of last year's surprise victory from the New York Giants:

2004 - Madden: Patriots ; Reality: Patriots
2005 - Madden: Patriots ; Reality: Patriots
2006 - Madden: Steelers ; Reality: Steelers
2007 - Madden: Colts ; Reality: Colts
2008 - Madden: Patriots ; Reality: Giants

Super Bowl XLIII kicks off February 1st, when the NY Giants will somehow manage to pull off an even more startling victory this year. Go NY!

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Tags: cardinals, madden, madden-09, nfl, steelers, super-bowl, super-bowl-xliii

Reader Comments (60)

I just watch it for the funny ads.

Fitzgerald will destroy them. nuff said.

ONE FOR THE OTHER HAND!

Screw Madden....what's Tecmo Bowl predicting?

Well Madden may be predicting a win for the Steelers but what about the Kurt Warner Factor? He is a serious force of nature don't you think?

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Fatimah

It has a 50-50 chance of being correct.

Looking at how this season has gone...despite the Steelers being the better team, this season has shown a huge amount of upsets, so my vote goes for the Lions.

Oh my, that was creepily accurate (27-23 Pittsburgh Steelers).

BTW, if you ignore the fact the whole game dynamic would have to be different to achieve scores 1 different for both, this was a remarkably accurate prediction.