It was revealed that Brett Favre will be the cover boy for Madden 2009 today. I don’t have a problem with that.

However, I DO have a problem with Cris Collinsworth and some guy named Tom Hammond being the new in-game announcers. I’ve never liked Collinsworth, and I hate the fact that I have to watch him on two separate channels when I want to see football every Sunday. In fact, not seeing Cris Collinsworth was the only perk of “Inside The NFL” getting canned by HBO.

Now I have to deal with him infiltrating the last link to my childhood. NO!..I won’t have it.

I don’t care how old and senile John Madden is getting. I want him in the game! I don’t care if the Xbox version of Madden features John rambling about “Turducken” when I’m running for a touch down. I don’t care if they have to include a 3d render of John dozing off in the announce booth. Put him in the game!

I would even settle for Frank Caliendo doing an impression of John Madden calling the game.