Though its release date is still almost five months away, it's never too early to begin obsessing over the next installment of Madden NFL Football. Word out of EA is that this year's game will have a completely redesigned franchise mode (only about two years late by my estimation), custom playbooks and lots of other tweaks for the geeks. Check out the teaser video below, and let me what clues about the game you can glean from these tantalizing 30 seconds.
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2011.