Madden Calls the Super Bowl
Wanna know what a bunch of ones and zeroes have to say about the outcome of Sunday's big game? Read on to find out.
Published: February 1, 2007
You know what's fun? Watching all those stats and calculations poured into the yearly sports outings being turned into a little digital soothsaying. It's not just that we like to laugh and point at a game trying to guess the outcome of things purely by stats -- after all, Super Bowl match-ups have so much emotion and stress going for them that they can swing things plenty far from what the points would have you think -- it's also that we're genuinely interested in seeing how good they are.
See, for years (literally seven years in a row), Sony's on 989 Sports-developed GameDay games held a Game Before the Game event that routinely picked the winner of the bowl based on how players from the teams squaring off played. With GameDay now dusted, it falls to Madden NFL 07 to make that call. And the results are in.
The Colts are gonna take it, 38-27. We've got a handful of screens and, in a nice touch, a tasty movie, that help outline some of the individual accomplishments, but if you want a text breakdown, we can do that for ya too:
[Players of the Game]
Bears: Thomas Jones- 24 Carries, 101 yds, 1 TD
Colts: Peyton Manning- 28/36, 383 yds, 3 TDs, 1 INT
[Chicago Bears]
-Passing-
Grossman- 22/38, 231 yds, 2 TDs, 1 INT
-Rushing-
Jones- 24 Carries, 101 yds, 1 TD
Benson- 12 Carries, 39 yds
Grossman- 2 Carries, 4 yds
-Receiving-
Muhammad- 4 Rec, 72 yds, 1 TD
Berrian- 5 Rec, 37 yds, 1 TD
Davis- 4 Rec, 41 yds
Clark- 2 Rec, 28 yds
Jones- 5 Rec, 49 yds
Benson- 2 Rec, 4 yds
-Kicking-
Gould- 2/2 FG (33, 36), 3/3 XP
[Indianapolis Colts]
-Passing-
Manning- 28/36, 383 yds, 3 TDs, 1 INTs
-Rushing-
Rhodes- 8 Carries, 32 yds
Addai- 16 Carries, 59 yds, 2 TDs
Manning- 1 Carry, 2 yds
-Receiving-
Clark- 7 Rec, 84 yds, 1 TD
Harrison, 9 rec, 102 yds, 1 TD
Wayne- 4 Rec, 73 yds, 1 TD
Wilkins- 2 Rec, 33 yds
Standeford- 2 Rec, 21 yds
Moorehead- 2 Rec, 17 yds
Addai- 2 Rec, 21 yds
-Kicking-
Vinatieri- 1/1 FG (42), 5/5 XP
[Scoring Summary]
-1st Quarter-
Colts- Harrison 17 yd TD Rec from Manning (Vinatieri XP), 11:03
Colts- Vinatieri 42 yd FG, 4:37
-2nd Quarter-
Bears- Jones 12 yd TD run (Gould XP), 14:39
Colts- Addai 4 yd TD run (Vinatieri XP), 10:48
Bears- Gould 33 yd FG, 6:02
Bears- Gould 36 yd FG, 0:03
-3rd Quarter-
Bears- Muhammad 23 yd TD Rec from Grossman (Gould XP), 13:32
Colts- Clark 36 yd TD Rec from Manning (Vinatieri XP), 10:22
Colts- Wayne 32 yd TD Rec from Manning (Vinatieri XP), 5:14
-4th Quarter-
Bears- Berrian 6 yd TD Rec from Grossman (Gould XP), 12:07
Colts- Addai 8 yd TD run (Vinatieri XP), 4:44
And there you have it. Make sure you check out the screens and movies to see how it all turned out, and tune in Sunday to see how close the digital players got to matching the real-life ones.
See, for years (literally seven years in a row), Sony's on 989 Sports-developed GameDay games held a Game Before the Game event that routinely picked the winner of the bowl based on how players from the teams squaring off played. With GameDay now dusted, it falls to Madden NFL 07 to make that call. And the results are in.
The Colts are gonna take it, 38-27. We've got a handful of screens and, in a nice touch, a tasty movie, that help outline some of the individual accomplishments, but if you want a text breakdown, we can do that for ya too:
[Players of the Game]
Bears: Thomas Jones- 24 Carries, 101 yds, 1 TD
Colts: Peyton Manning- 28/36, 383 yds, 3 TDs, 1 INT
[Chicago Bears]
-Passing-
Grossman- 22/38, 231 yds, 2 TDs, 1 INT
-Rushing-
Jones- 24 Carries, 101 yds, 1 TD
Benson- 12 Carries, 39 yds
Grossman- 2 Carries, 4 yds
-Receiving-
Muhammad- 4 Rec, 72 yds, 1 TD
Berrian- 5 Rec, 37 yds, 1 TD
Davis- 4 Rec, 41 yds
Clark- 2 Rec, 28 yds
Jones- 5 Rec, 49 yds
Benson- 2 Rec, 4 yds
-Kicking-
Gould- 2/2 FG (33, 36), 3/3 XP
[Indianapolis Colts]
-Passing-
Manning- 28/36, 383 yds, 3 TDs, 1 INTs
-Rushing-
Rhodes- 8 Carries, 32 yds
Addai- 16 Carries, 59 yds, 2 TDs
Manning- 1 Carry, 2 yds
-Receiving-
Clark- 7 Rec, 84 yds, 1 TD
Harrison, 9 rec, 102 yds, 1 TD
Wayne- 4 Rec, 73 yds, 1 TD
Wilkins- 2 Rec, 33 yds
Standeford- 2 Rec, 21 yds
Moorehead- 2 Rec, 17 yds
Addai- 2 Rec, 21 yds
-Kicking-
Vinatieri- 1/1 FG (42), 5/5 XP
[Scoring Summary]
-1st Quarter-
Colts- Harrison 17 yd TD Rec from Manning (Vinatieri XP), 11:03
Colts- Vinatieri 42 yd FG, 4:37
-2nd Quarter-
Bears- Jones 12 yd TD run (Gould XP), 14:39
Colts- Addai 4 yd TD run (Vinatieri XP), 10:48
Bears- Gould 33 yd FG, 6:02
Bears- Gould 36 yd FG, 0:03
-3rd Quarter-
Bears- Muhammad 23 yd TD Rec from Grossman (Gould XP), 13:32
Colts- Clark 36 yd TD Rec from Manning (Vinatieri XP), 10:22
Colts- Wayne 32 yd TD Rec from Manning (Vinatieri XP), 5:14
-4th Quarter-
Bears- Berrian 6 yd TD Rec from Grossman (Gould XP), 12:07
Colts- Addai 8 yd TD run (Vinatieri XP), 4:44
And there you have it. Make sure you check out the screens and movies to see how it all turned out, and tune in Sunday to see how close the digital players got to matching the real-life ones.
