One of the few broadcast features in Madden NFL 12 that I didn’t punch away with a quick button press was the official league bumper video at the end. You know, when the smooth narrator puffs up and says “This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL” and lays down the law of the league’s expressed written consent.
Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honours. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not.
