{"id":1646,"date":"2009-08-21T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T21:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/21\/know-your-madden\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:59:22","slug":"know-your-madden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/21\/know-your-madden\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your Madden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ajc posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/atlanta-falcons\/vicks-return-poses-issues-for-madden-video-game-121085.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/atlanta-falcons\/vicks-return-poses-issues-for-madden-video-game-121085.html', 'article');\" target=\"new\">article<\/a> about Vick and Favre being added to Madden 10 via roster updates, but for me the more interesting part of the article was this gem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A survey performed for EA by the University of Oregon\u2019s Sports Marketing Center found that \u201cMadden NFL\u201d players were considerably more knowledgeable about the sport than other fans. For example, 67 percent of \u201cMadden\u201d players could correctly identify specific passing routes, compared with 48 percent of non-gamers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting.  I wonder how many Madden players expect jukes and other special moves?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ajc posted an article about Vick and Favre being added to Madden 10 via roster updates, but for me the more interesting part of the article was this gem. A survey performed for EA by the University of Oregon\u2019s Sports Marketing Center found that \u201cMadden NFL\u201d players were considerably more knowledgeable about the sport &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/21\/know-your-madden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Know your Madden.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,29],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}