I think they should have more useless crap in Madden 2007.

Not only should they have SUPERSTAR MODE, they should have 3RD STRINGER MODE, where a working class mediocre talent is ignored by the press, and is shown between weeks trying to pay his bills. Also, FALLEN STAR MODE, where players are randomly arrested for crimes, and we follow the trial via more cut screens with lots of space-eating video clips.

Next, they should take the CREATE-A-FAN idea even further, and have CREATE-A-TAILGATE-PARTY, where several fans get drunk, heckle passing fans of the other team, and eventually get into a fistfight and are arrested for public urination. Or, you could have a pop-up menu of food and beverage choices, and decide based on your team's performance how drunk you get. Have a Blood-Alcohol-Level Meter.

Two Words: MADDEN CARDS. More words: ANIMATED MADDEN CARDS, with stats and interesting facts about the player's favorite band and which Olsen twin he'd rather date. And have more. Have cards for EVERY player, AND the coaches (every position), and individual cheerleaders, and special cards for adding a sign in the farthest corner of your stadium that say things like, "I'm Taking Up Space For No Reason."

And I want pre-game shows. LONG pre-games shows. I want to watch 30 minutes of video before I'm allowed to play the game. Don't give me any of this 20 second commentary that I can skip. Come on, EA, make the game REALLY unplayable. Have Tony Bruno on all the time. Interview players that talk about the team that they're no longer on. For 3 hours. Have him muse on the big dump he took that morning.

Also, hire 50-100 actors to do the voices and image-modelling for draftee interviews. I want them to go on for at least 15 minutes each, with menus for pre-set questions, with Rorschach tests and so on. Make sure that it has NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on the players' stats; I just want to watch more video. Expand scouting to include comments about lots of things that don't tell you the guy has a STA of 6. Talk about his commitment to the Star Wars franchise or something. Make draft scouting as long as possible, without serving any real function. Also, give me more WRs and CBs with 40 times of 4.23 that end up with SPDs of 83. I love that. Don't fix it.

Give me more CREATE-A-TEAM logos I'll never use. Like a picture of Pauly Shore, or a unicorn and a rainbow. Also, never tell me what the team name actually is. I like to guess whether or not Al and John will say the name supplied. Whatever you do, don't ever change the CREATE-A-TEAM function so that it could serve any use. Just make it bigger.

I want commercials. Give me military recruiting ads, and beer ads, and lots of real companies trying to sell me things. Just like the real world. Plus, you can generate more money that way. And isn't that the point? You can say that it's the most realistic Madden ever! Don't spare us the annoyance of real life, just because it's a video game.

Get rid of the actual games that I'm forced to play. I just want to watch T.V. Send me a DVD with animated highlights, commercials, lots of cut-scenes of fans/faces/cameramen, and cartoon cheerleaders shaking their cartoon moneymakers to un-listen-able music. And make the crowd louder. I don't know what function that serves, but it sounds like it could take up more space for no reason.

LAST, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: Never fix anything, no matter how clunky, bad, or useless it is. Keep the MODIFY UNIFORM for at least 10 more years. Never fix play action, blocking punts/kicks, or return blocking. Never make half-hearted, slapdash features like moving your team worth it. And one last suggestion: ANNOUNCER MODE - The CPU plays the game, and you just sit there and worship it.