as if the NFL needed more bad stuff to happen

on the brink of a lockout season, a relatively no name player becomes the cover athlete for madden 2012! congrats to you peyton hillis!

exactly...who?

i mean the folks over at EA had a brilliant idea of letting fans pick who was on the cover of this year's madden game, right?

CORRECT!

but sadly to screw up this great idea, the NFL insisted there be a representative from each team so it doesn't look like they're playing favorites. good idea, right?

WRONG.

look at some of these players. brian orapko?!!? ndamukong suh?!?!double u tee eff?!!?!? but the biggest bit of ridiculousness is seattle's name in the hat for the cover athlete. the 12th man. the fan.

what the eff would have been the cover?!?!?!? a picture of the crowd? some random fat slob from seattle?! another fan vote of who would be on the cover?!?! come on now.

so EA is already in trouble with some of their votes on there and do you think they'd do? just fix the votes so either adrian peterson or aaron rodgers is on the cover, right?

WRONG.

EA then decides to post the results aaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way to the finals to show that michael vick and peyton hillis are the final two in the running. why not just fudge the numbers? why not just put fake percentages?!!? who's gonna know? you don't share the actual raw number of votes with the public, so why show this?!?!?

my hat is off to you EA for having the biggest blunder for the greatest sports video game franchise of all time.