In 2004, my friends and I made a rule: when we played Madden, no one was allowed to be the Atlanta Falcons. With them, you were unstoppable, because quarterback Michael Vick was unstoppable. Deion Sanders was similarly unstoppable in Madden ‘95: I once won a game without my offense ever taking the field because Sanders ran back every kick or punt for a touchdown. Like Vick, Sanders was a player the likes of which the NFL had never seen, and it took both the league and the game a while to figure out how to contain him.