Super Bowl XLVI preview and pick

EA Sports this week, using Madden 2012, came out with its simulation for the Super Bowl. Other than a thinly veiled attempted at advertising, I don’t know why they do this. It’s not like this is something that literally any person can’t do. I can go to my couch right now, turn on my Play Station and spend 20 minutes doing this myself. Here’s another reason I don’t get so enamored with the annual Madden Super Bowl simulation: there’s no way to prove that all the highlights are from one simulation. EA never makes available the entire game. It just mashes together a bunch of highlights for the Internet and ESPN. How do we know the folks at EA didn’t just simulate the game 40 different times and took the best plays to create the result they wanted? And how does it just so happen that all the top players are still healthy in the fourth quarter? I’ve played Madden more than enough to know that any random player can ALL BUT DIE at any point o...