Welcome to On the bench. We've got a special little episode here today. Big guest though,

Bud Elliot from 24-7 sports, CBS Sports, the dude when talking college football.

He got to have an awesome experience here recently,

kind of getting the inside scoop

on one of the most anticipated video games

that I can remember, especially in the sports realm.

You know, we've been waiting 10 years for this, I guess 11,

if you're really counting, but you got to go to the EA Sports headquarters down in Orlando.

I know that's the hometown for you,

but getting over there, I guess how did that opportunity come about and what was that experience like?

Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me on. It was pretty cool, so I live here in Orlando,

EA is based in Orlando and I had gone over there a couple times before, you know, at times when there had been rumors that the game was, you know, was coming back or that they were starting to look into it and just you know some

different stuff I did back in like the Espination days even you know we just sort of

learning how how they make games and whatnot and I'm not really a huge gamer. I like to play, you know, the college football game and that's pretty much it. I used to play it. It'll be the show and then you know had kids so kind of gave that up. But they're like, hey, like, you know, you talked about it a lot on on

Cover 3. You know, I had done, you know, some like consulting discussion with them about the game and they're going to

come over check it out let's do it so it's myself Chris Benini from the athletic

Andy Staples shoot who else Matt Mershell from Orlando Sentinel and Matt Brown who runs

extra points, not the athletic Mac Brown and Robbie Callen who's with Upprocks and then a whole bunch of like

video game journalists which I I didn't even know existed but that's just

probably me being done like there's a ton of video game journalism out there so it it was cool man. Like it was everybody kind of had a unique kind of slant and what they wanted to find out and they gave us a two hour presentation and then we played the game for about two hours there after lunch and just kind of got to take it all in took a bunch of pages of notes and you know it was it was pretty dope.

I mean, shoot, like, so you talked to, or you, um, you got to like really play the game and you said, uh, it was, as far as what you got to like really the game and you said it was as far as what you got to play it was just the play now stuff right? Yeah yeah and they didn't let us do the dynasty

mope it showed us a lot of dynasty and road to glory, but they didn't really, they didn't let us actually play that that version of it.

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