Best of the Bears: Caleb Williams lands on cover of Madden 27
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Caleb was chosen to be on the cover of Madden. Two questions. First, did you see the cover? Did you have any thoughts? I saw it this morning, yeah. No reaction? Just no reaction, yeah.
Okay, then. That's perfect. I always do think it's weird the times when Ben is all business, like how he chooses to be all business and not be all business. Because he took shots at Caleb for the NBA three-point contest thing.
He really did.
I would have felt like this kind of fits in the same box. I don't know. That was weird.
Once John Madden football came out in 1988, you know who was on the cover of the first one? John Madden. That is exactly correct. And he was on it for a lot of years. And they started involving other players along the way. But beginning in the year 2000... is when it was a player alone. Eddie George, Dante Culpepper, Marshall Falk, Michael Vick, Ray Lewis, Donovan McNabb, Sean Alexander, Vince Young, Brett Favre, Troy Polamalu, Larry Fitzgerald, Drew Brees, Peyton Hillis. is kind of an outlier. The white rhino, baby. Calvin Johnson, Barry Sanders, Richard Sherman, Odell Beckham, Rob Gronkowski, Tom Brady, Antonio Brown, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady again, Josh Allen, Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley, and Caleb Williams.
I remember seeing the videos for Saquon Barkley because they had him redo the jump backwards over the defender thing, which is amazing. They put him on wires and everything to have it happen, and it was so cool. And then seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff for Caleb I thought was really cool too. I'll just tell a quick Madden story, and then we can move on and keep talking about Caleb.
Why is Caleb Williams featured on the cover of Madden NFL 27?
It made me laugh. When I covered the Bears, those guys – Down at Olivet Nazarene, couldn't wait for the year after Devin Hester's rookie season. Oh, man. Because the rumor was that he was going to be the first player to have 100 speed.
Oh, yeah, I do remember that.
And so it was like a whole thing. And I don't think he was 100. I think he was a 99 red, which meant he was a 100 speed. But I remember when the guys got the game, we would always go talk to the players at lunch. Usually you would talk to guys at lunch. And Olin and the offensive linemen, they come and they walk in formation, which I always thought was fascinating. Yeah. They were there, and then everyone else was gone. Because everyone was playing Madden and wanted to see Devin Hester be the fastest man in Madden history.
That's really cool. That's awesome. It means a lot to players, and especially players of the current NFL, when you consider... I mean, starting with Eddie George, Caleb was alive for all of these.
I really thought it was interesting the first person that he had mentioned on the cover of it.
I think we hear it in this clip from the New Heights podcast. Caleb Williams talking about getting the opportunity to be on the cover of Madden football. We got a bit of new news that we want to hit the people with, man. You're officially the cover of EA Sports Madden NFL 27.
Let's freaking go, man. Speaking of the Jordan thing. Like, obviously, everybody knows the Air Jordan, like the sunrise of him, you know, doing his Air Jordan with the skyline behind. I was like, I want to recreate it. Football, you know, kind of bring it back 30 years later. How many ever years later? So we did that one. And this one, obviously, had to go in it. This one had to go in there. This was a really cool photo shoot.
What are the historical significance and reactions to Madden cover athletes?
So appreciate everybody, honestly, to Madden and EA and all of that. It was a really cool shoot. Everybody there was great. They were all easy. They were all pros in their realm and respective realm. And so obviously a childhood dream.
I was going to say, do you grow up as a gamer or what?
Oh, man, my game is – My game is right here.
Right here.
Ready to go. Ready to go. I love games. It's something I do, like, just to go home and sit down and relax and not worry about anything and still get to compete and all of those different things.
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