Irish, my first experience of American Football was when I was 7 and my family were visiting friends in Minnesota and my dad bought my brother and I Vikings Jerseys (Williams was on the back of it) when we got home I got lend of Madden 05 and played that for years as the Vikings. After that we barely kept an eye in it, just watching the Super Bowl highlights every year, until Giants v Pats one in 2012. I remember watching the last few minutes as NYG were closing in on the end zone and we're trying to use up as much clock as possible and suddenly they burst through and their RB? tried to not go in and the NE player pushed him over the line so they would score and NE would have time to have another drive (13 year old me though this was the most genius the I'd ever seen) After that my I started playing Madden again and since then I've followed both the Vikings and Patriots (my reasoning for sticking with this is that they'll only play each other every 4 years so conflict of interest is low)