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It's Wednesday, June 7, 2023.

Welcome to the NFL fantasy football podcast where we're down to be on the Madden cover. It's me and your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Floria. We're in studios. We got specialists. Josh, Susie, give yourselves a hand. We appreciate you hanging out with us. Yeah, man. So the Madden cover came out today. Your boy, Josh Allen, is on the cover. How are you feeling? I'm excited. I tweeted it. I said there was, like when I was in high school and college

is when I really got into football and there were years where the schedule would release and it'd be like,

okay, the bills do not have a single primetime game this year. So to have someone from their team

on the cover of Madden, the first player ever from the Bills on it,

the first time fans are ever on the cover.

It's a big day for me as a Bill's and Allen fan, but it's a huge day for, I would just say

like the whole city and fan base of Buffalo.

Yeah, I'm like, I'm trying to go back and look.

So the first year that the Madden game was released, 1994. Actually, I guess this was

1889, but I think it really kind of took off starting in 1994. By then, the Bill's dynasty was kind of over. Like the four falls

of Buffalo had already happened. And so, yeah, I mean, it just hasn't really been any real

candidates from Buffalo. The first like six or something years, like maybe even more than that,

the cover was always John Madden. It was just him in a different pose. Like that's what I remember the first couple of Maddens that I played being. But yeah,

since they changed to players, I mean, before Josh Allen, the best case, Stevie Johnson maybe

for a Bill's player? Yeah, that was really going to happen. It was bad. Yeah, it was kind of

rough. So congratulations to Josh Allen.

I know he tweeted that it's a childhood dream, which honestly, that sort of made me laugh

because I was like, really?

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