I was fucking with the PS2 Emulator and was shocked at the fact that between 2000-2004 you could choose between
- Madden
- 2K
- Quarterback Club
- GameDay
- Fever (Xbox Exclusive)
- Blitz
- Primetime
To tell the truth, by the time we got to the PS2/Xbox/GC era, Madden and 2K were your best bets. The rest were average to wack and Blitz was something else entirely but the point was, at any given time those other games could go a different route and try something new and shake up the industry and that's the type of shit that kept the sports landscape fresh back then.