So I bit the bullet and decided to get Madden NFL 2004 instead of ESPN NFL Football this year. Haven’t revisited the Madden series in about 3 years now and figured it was time. Actually, the biggest reason I went with it was just because I was getting itchy to play and it came out today (where as ESPN comes out in September). My thoughts so far… The interface and play calling seem much more clunky and time consuming. Animation is much better than I remember but there are still a lot more variations in ESPN. Overall gameplay is very nice because of the sheer amount of things you can do on the fly. To tell ya the truth, I think I’m still liking ESPN a little better and I wouldn’t be surprised if I went with it instead. I guess I’ll wait out Madden another week and see how it goes.

Other than that, did you guys see SportsLine.com is already doing Power Rankings? How in the hell are they able to do that? Hmm. I wonder where da Bears are…