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Michael Vick's iconic Week 13 performance in Minnesota convinced Donny Moore to create an avatar for him.
Before that game in Minnesota , no Madden QB had ever been considered for -- or, in Moore 's words, "allowed" -- a speed rating above 89 .
"He had NFL defenders going, like, 'holy s---' to themselves, because even they had never seen anything this fast," Moore says.
Michael Vick's Madden '04 cover was "one of the greatest accomplishments of my life -- a dream come true," he says.
"I told EA that the game should be the exact duplicate of what you saw on the field," Vick says.
Producers told Moore his realistic reproduction of Vick was "ridiculous" and asked him to add some kind of virtual governor on his speed.
Mike Vick was the fourth straight Madden cover subject to suffer a major injury in the game's Madden ' 04 season .
"When I think of the greatest football figures ever on a video game, yes," Vick says.
"No character has ever been so far and away better than everyone else," a Madden player says.
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