Two G.O.A.T.s Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady share the ‘Madden NFL 22’ cover
Tom Brady didn’t quite pass the torch to Madden 22 coins Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl LV However, Tom Brady did battle an upcoming cover star. EA Sports announced Thursday that Brady Mahomes and Brady will both share the Madden NFL 22 cover. The announcement comes less than an entire year after their fight on the biggest stage of the sport.
EA Sports teased this pairing with a video posted on Monday which features Peyton Hillis, a former Browns running back and Madden NFL coverage athlete, and two goats. Hillis can be seen taking a knee beside the goats and talking via the phone to an unidentified person, who says “they were able to do it again”.
EA Sports created something unique that’s never before seen with two different console generations. It’s been a decade ago that Hillis was featured on the Madden NFL Series’ annual entry. And it’s been a while because there was a dual-athlete cover.
Madden hasn’t had two stars split the precious real estate that forms the front of the game, since Madden NFL 10 the year that Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Steelers safety Troy Polumalu appeared on the front, appearing as if they were poised to be thrown into each other. This was the perfect choice for the game that season, which was constructed on a new mechanism that let players fight for loose balls and to fight for extra yards — the inches we talk about that often decide the outcome of a game.
Two years later, Hillis was featured on the cover of Madden NFL 12 in the most dramatic of the fan vote surprise. EA has chosen him to be the perfect pitch man in its teaser trailer, which debuted on Monday, and the subtle message was clear by Thursday: Hillis’ goats were merely placeholders for cheap Madden nfl 22 coins the two G.O.A.T.s.