EA Obtains Exclusive NFL Licensing Rights

Grub writes "EA has signed a 5-year agreement with the NFL that gives them exclusive rights to use NFL players, teams, and stadiums in their products. CEO Larry Probst, 'The five-year agreement will usher NFL fans through the console technology transition with new ideas and innovative game play experiences.' This is a crushing blow to competitors and an enormous victory for EA, who will undoubtably make sure everyone knows that only they have NFL players and teams come next year's football game advertising bonanza."

Comments

Heh...

[brainboyz]

Good thing I don't like sports.

Re:failed in Auto Racing, too.

[Kombat]

It's probably been as sore a time to be a Porsche employee as when they cancelled their GT Racing and reassigned that staff to develop their SUV.

What makes you think the GT racing team was assigned to work on the Cayenne? Isn't it more likely that the team was working on the Carrera GT supercar? And as for it being a "sore time" to be a Porsche employee, the company has in fact been able to exceed its previous year's sales, despite a declining consumer market for luxury sport cars. This impressive outcome is largely attributed to the wildly successful SUV you just derided.

Source:

Consumer spending in particular did not revive. Nevertheless, with deliveries of 15,209 new vehicles - including company cars and those leased to Porsche employees - the preceding year's result (13,179 units) was clearly exceeded. This is mainly due to the Cayenne

Sounds like the Porsche engineers have beaten a declining economy, and been able to work on several new groundbreaking products, including a highly successful SUV, and a breathtaking supercar.