This has been in the making off and on for many years

What does it mean to Mut 22 coins you that you are finally an official cover athlete in the sport 35 years after the time your career started?

This has been in the making off and on for many years. The time had to be perfect for my brand. In collaboration with the Madden people to smooth things out, check all the i's and dot all the t'sOnce we got that done, everything else was just about going for it. I realized that somewhere in my past I'd done something right to continue to be looked at as one of the legendary athletes from over 30 years ago. Madden is still thinking enough of me to do something like this.

Your video game legacy dates to 1989, in which you became the face at Tecmo Bowl. How was it to experience yourself as a virtual person back then?

I'm still seeing myself in Tecmo Bowl. I've still got an old videogame. I have the game for it to use. But it's in a box somewhere in storage. It's iconic. It makes me feel good that I have grown men in their 40s telling me"Hey, my cousin and I got into the most intense struggle of our life because we each wanted to be in the Tecmo Bowl when we were young. So our parents took the game, and my dad put it in his tools cabinet. It was not playable for a whole month since the fight was so intense.' I hear that a lot. When I'm at sports memorabilia shows, people are able to come up with the video game. They say, 'I still got the machine to play it on. My kids play it. My grandkids play it ... in fact, everybody still debates about who's going to become Bo Jackson.' Tecmo Bowl ... that was a lot of tech in the past. Now, you see it and cheap Madden nfl 22 coins you think, "Wow this is an old fashioned.'