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Okay, so having heard from the masses that I’m truly missing something by not playing Madden I go back and start a franchise. 2nd Play of my season has Tom Brady throwing and getting hit at the same time, the game calls it a ‘fumble’ and I recover. I go to replay to check it out, his arm is definitely going forward so I go to challenge the play. However, EA, being, uh, stupid, decides to prohibit me from asking for a challenge because I have replayed the video. What freaking rule is this? I mean, coaches up in the booths are allowed to view replays — that’s why they make the call to get a review. I know this isn’t new for Madden, but it’s annoying as hell.
That being said, ESPN isn’t perfect either. We do get the replays but following up on my post from a few nights ago, a review of the rule book says that an INT in the opponent’s end zone where I have posession and didn’t move out of the end zone results in a touchback — not a safety.
So bascially I’m mad at both games right now. Gah.
I have now totally downloaded Half Life 2 (legally) from Steam. Feel free to make it available for purchase already!!
UPDATE 8PM: As mentioned in the comments, ESPN has the same issue. ESPN does auto replays of pretty much every play on the default setting so I didn’t realize that if you select a replay you can’t challenge. In my opinion, the auto-replay defeats the purpose of not allowing someone else to see a challengeable play, which is stupid as well, so therefore all football games suck. 
August 28th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
Actually Dan, ESPN is the same way
if you go to the menu and watch the replay from there (you might see one of the automatic replays though, thats okay) and then try to challenge it wont let you.
I think the reasoning is because unlike coaches you can always get the best most perfect angle in a video game replay, and take as long as you need to figure out if you want to do it, since the game is paused.
I rather like the feature.
Scott
August 28th, 2004 at 7:01 pm
Thanks for your post. I will amend according. ESPN seems to do a replay automatically of every play which, if you’re going to disallow replays, seems to defeat the purpose.
August 28th, 2004 at 8:13 pm
Heh, no argument there, but on the other hand, its a one time replay from a fixed angle, so much closer to what real life coaches would have to go off of, rather than magic supercameras that can see from any angle with unlimited review time
*shrug*
Just thought it was a “feature” of ESPN that bared mentioning
Scott