{"id":100024,"date":"2025-06-03T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/100024\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:35:11","slug":"madden-nfl-26s-ps5-box-art-immortalises-one-of-the-coldest-moments-in-recent-football-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/100024\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden NFL 26&#8217;s PS5 Box Art Immortalises One of the Coldest Moments in Recent Football Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Madden NFL 26&#039;s PS5 Box Art Celebrates One of the Coldest Moments in Recent Football Memory 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/2050fa9b4d2e4\/madden-nfl-26s-ps5-box-art-celebrates-one-of-the-coldest-moments-in-recent-football-memory-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/madden-nfl-26s-ps5-box-art-celebrates-one-of-the-coldest-moments-in-recent-football-memory-1.900x.jp.jpeg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Madden NFL 26's PS5 Box Art Celebrates One of the Coldest Moments in Recent Football Memory 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a long-suffering New York Giants fan, it pains this author to see all-star running back Saquon Barkley wearing the green of the Philadelphia Eagles \u2013 especially now he\u2019s a Super Bowl champion.<\/p>\n<p>But Barkley\u2019s freakish athletic ability will always be something we admire, and his reverse hurdle is an iconic moment in recent NFL history. If you haven\u2019t seen it before, then you can watch the original move, as it happened, here:<\/p>\n<p>The Saquon hurdle has to be one of the best plays this decade  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FXXoazHqiw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FXXoazHqiw<\/a>\u2014 DraftKings (@DraftKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftKings\/status\/1929552353675370744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fitting, then, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/madden_nfl_26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madden NFL 26<\/a> will mark the moment on its cover. This is, honestly, one of the coolest box arts we\u2019ve seen in quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, behind-the-scenes videos show that Barkley actually used a harness to shoot this picture, but we suppose the Eagles wouldn\u2019t be particularly happy if he got injured on set.<\/p>\n<p>Saquon hit his iconic reverse hurdle for the Madden cover \ud83e\udd2f <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saquon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@saquon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NFL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EAMaddenNFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@EAMaddenNFL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ari_fararooy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ari_fararooy<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yjfpfsfNvv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/yjfpfsfNvv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1929585088389419096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The game itself, which will release on 14th August, is promising \u201cnext-level coaching, QB authenticity, and explosive gameplay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the Madden franchise these days, it\u2019s getting completely overshadowed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/ea_sports_college_football_25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EA Sports College Football<\/a> series, with the latest instalment out a month prior to the flagship NFL game.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a long-suffering New York Giants fan, it pains this author to see all-star running back Saquon Barkley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25983,610,7,778,6,25982],"class_list":{"0":"post-100024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-box-art","9":"tag-ea-sports","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-madden-nfl","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-ps5"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114618048413869974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}