Earlier today, I experienced what might be the craziest, flukiest play that I've ever seen in a Madden video game! And not in the way that fluke plays in Madden are usually glitchy plays or plays in which the CPU cheats to affect an outcome. No, this was a fluke play in the genuine football sense of a fluke play.
Special teams is no longer to be ignored, and PATs are not forgone conclusions...
To put the situation in context, I was playing an exhibition game in Madden 17 as the Seahawks against the 49ers (on All Pro difficulty). It started out as an intense defensive struggle with the first score not coming until midway through the second quarter. Down 17-3 in the fourth, the 49ers started mounting a comeback. The 49ers got into the end zone in the waning minutes of the game to make the score 17-16. They lined up for the PAT that would have tied the game - a play that should be routine. But what happened next was anything but routine.
Therold Simon and Kam Chancellor rushed off the outside to block the PAT and ice the game. Simon beat Bruce Miller around the edge and successfully blocked the kick, but Miller was the one who managed to pick up the ball. He then proceeded to run around the edge and managed to make it into the end zone, turning the 49ers' blown extra point into a successful two-point conversion. Instead of tying the game, they now had a one-point lead.
Perhaps the flukiest play that I've ever seen in a Madden game.
I couldn't believe what I had seen.
And it was amazing!
Damnit Kam Chancellor! All you had to do was fall on the ball!
As exciting as this was, it ended up not being the deciding play of the game. I ended up returning the ensuing kickoff back for a touchdown. I failed to convert my own two-point conversion (to make the lead a full seven points instead of six), but I did manage to halt San Francisco's attempt at it's own follow-up TD. The Seahawks [i.e. me] ended up winning the game 23-18.
Anyway, feel free to watch the entire game on Youtube.
This is going into my permanent Madden highlight reel.
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Tags:Madden, Madden NFL, Madden NFL 17, EA, EA Sports, National Football League, NFL, football, sports, special teams, point after touchdown, two point conversion, fluke, Kam Chancellor