Remeber When You Had A Choice In Football Games? A Tribute To NFL2K5: The Game That Wasn't Madden

Let us pause and pour one out for our dead homie, NFL2K5. Lando suggests Colt 45. Oh, NFL2K5, you were the last of the great football games, before an exclusive deal with the Madden-making behemoth ended our torrid affair. Well, please allow us to point out the most touching tribute not full of crying eagles, flexing Hulk Hogans, or Yakity Sax. Oh, NFL2K5, you were struck down in your prime by a monopoly marketing deal. Sega, you are truly the doomed hero of a Greek tragedy, bringing quality projects to the fore and always having something go wrong with them. Except Shadow the Hedgehog. That's ALL you.