NCAA Football 09 cover reveal event
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Some of you may have noticed that my initial hands-on impressions of NCAA Football 09 are no longer up. Apparently there was some sort of miscommunication and we were not informed of an embargo which holds until May 2nd. I’ll have my full gameplay and feature impressions up then.
So I thought I’d throw up a short recap of the PS3 NCAA cover reveal event with some pictures. Jake Long, Matt Ryan, Darren McFadden, DeSean Jackson, Chris Long, and Owen Schmitt were in attendance along with the game on display. I was as able to speak with some producers including NCAA’s Ben Haumiller (the guy behind online dynasty) and Madden’s Phil Frazier along with getting to meet Peter Moore.
The highlight of the night was having the opportunity to play DeSean Jackson in a game of NCAA 09. I had overheard at the event that he was the cover athlete for the PS2 version of the game and he was excited about that. I asked him where he thought he might end up and he mentioned the Cowboys and Bucs. He came across as a really good guy and it made the game a lot of fun. It got quite competitive with a little trash talking involved as well. I took Washington and he went with 6th ranked LSU (by the way the top rated team is Georgia). After jumping out to a 7-0 lead he would go on to score three touchdowns and go up 21-7 late in the third quarter. However I came back and scored the game tying touchdown with about 2:30 left. Unfortunately this is when the game froze on us. It likely was an epic ending we missed out on as the Pastapadre-DeSean Jackson rivalry ends in a draw.
Continue on to view some more pictures.
April 25, 2008 at 8:30 am
UW hanging with 6th ranked LSU? Talk about unrealistic. Game-killer!
Sounds good Pasta, except for the freeze part. I am a little surprised about the choice of Jackson, as his senior year was mildly disappointing as his whole team went in the tank. I don’t know if many fans outside the Pac-10 know about him, but his highlight reel return vs. Tennessee probably helped.
April 25, 2008 at 8:33 am
[quote comment="18983"]UW hanging with 6th ranked LSU? Talk about unrealistic. Game-killer!
Sounds good Pasta, except for the freeze part. I am a little surprised about the choice of Jackson, as his senior year was mildly disappointing as his whole team went in the tank. I don’t know if many fans outside the Pac-10 know about him, but his highlight reel return vs. Tennessee probably helped.[/quote]
Jake Locker is the man. I had to apologize to DeSean for UDub beating them last year.
April 25, 2008 at 8:34 am
Pasta looks like Tully from Kids
April 25, 2008 at 8:41 am
hey pasta, thanks for the info.
Do you happen to know where the Florida gators were ranked in the game? Or what their ratings were. Thanks.
April 25, 2008 at 8:45 am
Haha. Way to go Pasta, make Udub proud.
Can you tell what Locker’s rating is this year, or is that part of the silence period?
April 25, 2008 at 8:46 am
it’s telly
and he looks nothing like him!
why is both long and schmitt there if there is only one more cover to go (psp)?
just wondering…
April 25, 2008 at 8:51 am
wait,
is pastapadre the guy playing with desean on the first pic, or the guy at the end posing with sparty?
i assume its the guy playing against desean…AND NO HE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE TELLY FROM “KIDS”.
April 25, 2008 at 8:58 am
Im very happy to see my UGA Dawgs are at the #1 spot.I’ve been waiting on that 4 years.. Now I’ll jus have to hear online that i play wit them cause there #1, and not cause im a fan.
April 25, 2008 at 8:59 am
im telling you… Thats Telly from Kids, or he is the obese fellow on the couch. Anyway it goes, tell Deshawn he should root for the 49ers!
April 25, 2008 at 9:01 am
Yeah I know the rankings and top player ratings. I can’t really speak to anything game related until the 2nd
April 25, 2008 at 9:02 am
They had video of this on inside xbox.
April 25, 2008 at 9:05 am
Btw the last pic is cdj from ncaa strategies
April 25, 2008 at 9:06 am
YEA my Bulldawgs are top rated. Take that USC bandwagoners hahahaha. Now time to see people jump to the Ga. bandwagon, but we dont want you. LOL
April 25, 2008 at 9:27 am
pasta…so are you still there in new york. did you get my annoying comment about the face masks? can you ask them to update the face masks?
April 25, 2008 at 9:31 am
Just beat ASU, Georgia. That’s all I care about.
April 25, 2008 at 9:40 am
I like how uncomfortable Jake Long looks with Sparty..haha.
GO GREEN!
April 25, 2008 at 11:59 am
[quote comment="18997"]Btw the last pic is cdj from ncaa strategies[/quote]
So you are Telly!!! big ups man on the transition from acting to gaming, you also where good in The Wire as Jonny Weeks… You are the man!
April 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm
[quote comment="18999"]YEA my Bulldawgs are top rated. Take that USC bandwagoners hahahaha. Now time to see people jump to the Ga. bandwagon, but we dont want you. LOL[/quote]
Yeah thats right we don’t need nobody jumping on..we already got this on lock,UGA #1
April 25, 2008 at 12:05 pm
georgia #1? lol.. just like my man stated above im sure everybody all of a sudden will become dawg fans. lol imma tuff it out with my canes, and yes im from miami and not on the bulldawg express
April 25, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Dawg fans just beat Carolina, maybe then you would deserve the #1 spot
April 25, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Nice to see you dressed for the occasion, Pasta…
I KEED, I KEEEEEEEEED…
April 25, 2008 at 12:48 pm
[quote comment="19019"]georgia #1? lol.. just like my man stated above
im sure everybody all of a sudden will become dawg fans. lol imma tuff it out with my canes, and yes im from miami and not on the bulldawg express[/quote]
Well my brother and my cousins husband are there with you to the end.
April 25, 2008 at 1:17 pm
No offense Pasta, but all this stuff about alternate uniforms is irrelevant to me if the overall game isn’t better. I loved NCAA 08 but I thought it sorely lacked in presentation. I know you can’t talk about that yet but can you at least tell us if they’ve made huge improvements in this area?
April 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Pasta,
Since you spoke about jersey alternates, can you answer a question for me. Does Clemson have Orange jerseys as well? You mentioned all purple and purple/white, but no orange. I understand if you cant speak on this matter.
Thanks!
April 25, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Wassup Pasta… I wanted to know was you able to do interviews with the Athletes or even take any photos with the for your personal use and website…….
April 25, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Did anyone happen to copy and keep the initial post by PP? If so, can you please email it to me at JHeb1973@cox.net???
Thanks in Advance…
Joel
April 25, 2008 at 3:27 pm
[quote comment="19054"]Wassup Pasta… I wanted to know was you able to do interviews with the Athletes or even take any photos with the for your personal use and website…….[/quote]
No, for the most part the athletes were up in an interview area with real media hording around them. I lucked into getting to play DeSean Jackson as he basically just walked into the game room and grabbed the controller.
April 25, 2008 at 4:31 pm
[quote comment="19022"]Dawg fans just beat Carolina, maybe then you would deserve the #1 spot
[/quote]
Dont worry we will they just got lucky last year
April 25, 2008 at 5:49 pm
yea, did anyone get a copy of that hands-on post??
April 25, 2008 at 6:15 pm
soooooooooooooooooooo… im highly doubting that there are FCS teams in 09 im pre odering it tomorrow and i just wanted to kno if there were FCS teams…
April 25, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Awesome news about my bulldogs being #1
April 25, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Is DT Linder in NY. He said he was playing with you in NY Pasta? I think he is lying…
April 25, 2008 at 11:58 pm
[quote comment="19090"]Is DT Linder in NY. He said he was playing with you in NY Pasta? I think he is lying…[/quote]
Well I don’t know if he was there or not, but I do know that if he was I didn’t play him. DeSean Jackson is the only person I played at that event.
April 26, 2008 at 3:33 am
One thing I want to know is are there any hair styles back in the game??? what in the world happened to them? Plenty of players still wear long hair or dreads in college football, seems to me taking them out of the game is very unrealistic. Are they back?
April 26, 2008 at 11:13 am
hey pasta, what is ohio state’s rank?
April 28, 2008 at 8:34 am
Who was Desean scoring with off the LSU team?
April 29, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Why hasn’t ea posted any alternative uniforms this week since they promised them every week day.
April 30, 2008 at 1:27 pm
[quote comment="18983"]UW hanging with 6th ranked LSU? Talk about unrealistic. Game-killer!
Sounds good Pasta, except for the freeze part. I am a little surprised about the choice of Jackson, as his senior year was mildly disappointing as his whole team went in the tank. I don’t know if many fans outside the Pac-10 know about him, but his highlight reel return vs. Tennessee probably helped.[/quote]
He was a junior.
May 6, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I think the online dynasty is going to be the coolest thing to try out but imagine 1 player for each school and maybe its just a all sim league where your more of just building your team and you sim like 3 times a week a few days to recruit.
May 9, 2008 at 1:17 am
I’m glad he put forth his best outfit for the outing. I guess he was saving his jean shorts for a trip to the white house or a movie premier.