14) Youreally believe your guys are real on your team and you talk to them and put them to sleep at night. Tell Drew Bledsoe that practice will be held tomorrow before I go to work at 6am. 15) You actually devise a poll were all your friends are ranked each week! 16) You lay in bed at night with your wife thinking of ways to increase your run production!!!!! 17) You know exactly how much time you have after you get to the main menu to grab a can of pop out of the fridge cuz you timed it! (30 sec.) 18) You believe the best way to honor Walter Payton is to recreate his likeness in your franchise. 19) Your brother's girlfriend can be heard asking, "How come he plays that game so much?" 20) You wake up the next day after a big night of gameplayand brews, and look in the paper for the stats! 21) You hope that the 4pm game on TV sucks so you can justify turning it off to play Madden. Am I alone on that one? 22) While at the Falcons/Panthers game, when Chandler threw the first TD pass to Dwight, I leaned to the guy 0beside me and said, "Chris Chandler makes players around him better". He replied, "Dwight can fly", I said, "Speed kills". I don't think he is a gamer:) 23) your girlfriend cringes soon as the theme music is heard. Then asks, "How long we watchin' the Madden Channel?" 24) Your daughter sings your "Goin' to da house" song every time you score, company present and all. 25) You apply for an NFL coaching job based on your 16 SuperBowl wins on Madden Level 26) NFL coaches regularly steal your custom plays 27) You tape numbers to 11 white mice, trying to come up with custom plays. 28) You scout out players on NCAA 2000 to use the info for your upcoming Madden2K Draft. 29) Your wife overhears you talking in your sleep saying "Like Randy Moss always says, Just chuck it up there dog and I'll go get it." or "That guy has a heck of a lot of moves and we saw most of them right there on that one play." 30) 99.99% of your brain capacity is filled with useless ratings and Maddenisms. 31) You have the opening rap from Madden 2000 on your answering machine. 32) You refer to new people in your league as "Fresh Meat." 33) You turn down free NBA basketball tickets because you know that a win tonight in Madden means that you are in the playoffs. 34) You spend your working hours here at the TMGM 2K forum. 35) You can't think of any “You know you’re a Madden clone if” jokes because you’re too busy thinking of possible trades to boost up your defense. 36) You make an F on your science test because you make up plays in your notebook instead of copying notes. 37) Your home page is this message board. 38) You start naming your kids after custom plays you made. 39) You have printed off a knee-high stack of papers from a message board about madden to help improve your game. 40) You talk about them so much, that your friends think that your drafted players are real. 41) You have Custom Plays tatooed on your arms. 42) You make up point spreads and over/under's for your games (I'm guilty of that... :) ). 43) After you lose a game, people know to stay far away from you for at least 2 days. 44) You constantly wonder why no one has made a breakfast cereal called "Madden-O's." 45) While watching a football game, you see a receiver catch a ball after taking a hard hit and vow to sign him to your team. 46)You’re watching “Loveline” and a familiar voice calls up and claims she’s “lost her baby to another man… a big fat man that drives around in a bus.” 47)Your kids ask you for stuff they really want when you’re playing Madden, because they know your reaction will be something along the lines of, “uh…what? Sure.. whatever; FREEMAN YOU DA MAN, NICE CATCH BABY YEAH!” 48) Your buddies call you on the phone and tell you to pause the game before they even talk to you. 49) You send a real player hate mail after he fumbles away a punt in the Super Bowl, losing the game. 50) You put a classified ad in the paper begging somebody who can hang to come play you. 51) Your friends all have psychological disorders that are directly related to the beatings you put them through on Madden. 52) Your favorite team loses in real life and you immediately play against the team that beat them, which makes you feel better. 53) You hire a voodoo practitioner to come to your house and cleanse Brad Johnson, who’s thrown 70 interceptions in only 2.5 seasons. 54) You start referring to all distances in your life in a YARDS measurement. 55) You start play by play annoucing the traffic on your way to work 56) You send in your custom plays to the Cleveland Browns front office claiming "These are fool proof and what do you have to lose?" 57) You take your memory card with you everywhere and talk to it as if your team is really in the card. 58) You take your memory card to bed with you!!! 59) You've padded certain areas of your room to absorb the controller’s impact. 60) You can recite all the 'trash talking' from the game. 61) You feel a certain kinship with John and Pat.