TIL that the Civilizations games (and others) include creator Sid Meier's name in the title because Robin Williams joked that it would help sell more copies of 1987's Sid Meier's Pirates.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier#MicroProse

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Madden 96, Madden 97, Madden 98, Madden 99, Madden 2000.. you get the idea. And yes, Madden 27 does exist.

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JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN

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aeiou

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brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr

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Football!

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aeiou

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holla holla get dolla

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big amerikan tts

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Here comes a Chinese earthquake

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HOO HOO HOO BOY HOOOOO FUHBAWL

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Snake! SNAKE! SNOCK-EE!

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MARK!

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9999999999999999999

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It's not gay if it's on the moon

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KEKKONEN KEKKONEN KEKKONEN ad infinitum

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Also there's two Madden 25s. One for the 25th anniversary of Madden and one for 2025.

The anniversary one is stylized as Madden NFL 1989 25 2014.

The 2025 one is just Madden NFL 25

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Fun fact, a few weeks ago I actually learned that Madden is a name and not a word/slang that’s just uncommon/unknown in my country. I always assumed it’s just a slang/term that’s makes 100% sense for US people and that’s it

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At this point it basically is

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Maddening.

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Did it madden you when you found out?

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It's one of my family surnames and confused my grandmother a good deal when she started seeing it in shops.

(I now wonder where John Madden's family are from.)

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Random words on a company is usually just a white guys name

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Madden 20 happened twice

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TIL Madden is named after a person

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You need to delete this before it makes a bunch of people feel really old.

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Too late. I remember playing the first Madden game. On an Amiga.

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Next you're telling me Amiga is another person's name

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Wait, you're serious

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Yes I am

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I don't think it has anything to do with age, people outside the states know literally nothing about american football or their personalities.

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Yeah, i get it... but if you are American, it's something that'd be hard to miss. He had an iconic voice, said iconic stupid things, and if you're old, was one of the best (American) football coaches in history. Every Thanksgiving, he was the announcer. Every Super Bowl. He died about 5 years ago, so nearly everybody experienced him growing up.

Kinda like Dick Clark on New Year's. He was the host from 1972 to 2011

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What does that have to do with this discussion?

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They're still getting soled outside of the US

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In my case it's both

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And John Madden was on the cover of everyone of those games between 1988-2000.

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I felt old before I read it.

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did you think it was the verb

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I just thought it's some american foodball terms.

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Well, it sort of is? John Madden was a football coach (famously for the Oakland Raiders in the 70s).

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And people literally call them Madden. To one day hear he was in the cover was crazy.

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I didn't think about it at all. Just wondering about the weird name

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All that CTE Maddens a man, ya know?

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I genuinely have to know what you thought A Madden was before today.

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Just a made up word. Like Skyrim

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What else would it mean?

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The other sports games are named after leagues, i also thought Madden was some American sports league. Had no idea it was a name

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Ah, that makes sense.

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I don't know. Could be a word I don't know.

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Legit thought that was some American nickname for egghand sport

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Don't forget Joe Montana's Sports Talk Football! I absolutely loved playing that on my Sega

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John Madden wasn't the auteur behind the games, that's just celebrity branding.

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Most people never knew this was named after a person, and just assumed it was some obscure football term they were too young to know.

Tony Hawk on the other hand...