I tried to get to know each team as well as I could,” RevanFan says.

I looked up their stats to sort of figure out how they played. I tried to figure out what each player looked like. I looked through old media guides from the 1960s. “I did tons and tons of research for days and weeks and months, trying to figure out exactly who was on each team each season. His Cowboys project is so detailed and meticulously researched that it must rank as one of the most impressive modding feats ever achieved. “RevanFan didn’t simply re-create the rosters and call it a day. With that new site came a new name: Football Idiot.

He brought the community back with a new website. The torch had to be carried on by user torontogrudlies after Football Freaks eventually shut down. One by one the 'forefathers' disappeared from the community. The days of the original site are nicknamed by current members as “The Discovery Era.” These founding-users of Football Freaks were responsible for creating the first modding utilities for the game. Screenshot courtesy RevanFan.Founded in 2004 by former user Mardagg, Football Idiot began as the modding site Football Freaks. Then I figured out the series was discontinued, and that lead me to find the Football Freaks website,” Beich explains. “I had Madden 08 and I wanted to buy the next version.

Football Idiot is a blessing for gamers like Danny Beich, who was one of the many users shunned by EA’s decision to cancel the series’ computer releases. “Thanks to the dedicated (and slightly obsessed) Football Idiot modding community, there's been an updated mod of Madden 08 every year on computers during the 11-year hiatus.

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