What the Hell is Mutant League Football Doing in NFL Blitz_

Finish off the “Blitz Gauntlet” mode in the recently released NFL Blitz for PS3 and Xbox 360 and you’ll unlock a team full of zombies. And the logo on their jersey isn’t that of the National Football League, but of another league, one from a future of decaying flesh and dismembered bodies.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); That shot above comes from NFL Blitz and it clearly pays homage to Mutant League Football with the uniform’s collar patch. While EA Sports acquired NFL Blitz from the 2008-2009 selloff of Midway, Mutant League Football is something EA has owned from day one, and it’s a reboot that fans have begged for since H25 its 1993 release on the Genesis. OK, so, let’s cut the crap. What’s going on here? Is this a veiled message to Mutant League Football fans that the game is coming back? I have done my damndest to run down the truth here. First up, on the record, EA Sports officially no-commented all of my questions about Mutant League Football. “We have no announcements at this time,” a spokesperson told me. I’ve been around long enough to know that’s boilerplate for “we’re not saying anything, but please keep talking about this.” So I then went to sources familiar with the studio and the products built there. Two stories emerged. The first is that, yeah, the rank-and-file development staff wants to bring back Mutant League Football just as much as the fans do. There’s a cynical belief, however, that it can’t happen. A Mutant League Football game is competitive to both Blitz and, somewhat, to Madden. Not only would h25 com สล็อต​ the NFL frown upon it, because it would cannibalize sales off its official h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ video game products, Electronic Arts might not wish to because it would be paying out development costs for something directly competing with a product they already make. There’s also a question of saturation. If it’s a downloadable title, Blitz and Madden NFL Arcade already are out there. If it’s a full console disc title, NCAA Football and Madden NFL are on shelves each summer. But … but … there’s suspicion that something might yet be in the works. There are rumors of concepts involving Blitz zombies, in more violent scenarios than you see in NFL Blitz, just not on a football field. They could have been generic stand-ins for something completely different. And remember, the Blitz folks did a hell of a job keeping that project secret even from their own colleagues. https://kotaku.com/how-ea-sports-kept-loose-lips-from-sinking-blitz-5852433 If EA Sports is not actively working on Mutant League Football, then this Easter egg could be one of a few things. It could simply be a tribute to a franchise everyone loves and wish would return. It could be a tip of the cap to a diehard community that has begged for it, repeatedly. It could be a guerrilla action by development staff looking to create enough viral enthusiasm for a Mutant League reboot that their bosses can’t argue with it. Or, it could just be a patch on the jersey of a putrefied humanoid blitzing Tim Tebow.