Colorado Crush quarterback John Dutton, who led his team to a championship in the most recent Arena Football League season, is selected to be on the video game cover.
Video game company Electronic Arts announced today that they had selected a cover player for their forthcoming Arena Football game, which is set to debut Feb. 7, 2006. The game will be available for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game systems.
EA said that John Dutton, quarterback for the 2005 Arena Football League champion Colorado Crush, was selected to grace the cover. Dutton led the Colorado Crush to its first-ever Arena Football League championship in just their third year in the league, throwing for 347 yards and three touchdowns. Dutton, a seven year Arena Football League veteran, previously led the San Jose SaberCats to an ArenaBowl title in 2002 where he was named MVP of ArenaBowl XVI.
The Arena Football game will allow players to undertake an entire season of indoor football and will offer features such as 8-on-8 play and the ability to send players into and over the walls.
“I’m honored to be the first cover athlete for this new franchise and very excited about working with EA on Arena Football,” said Dutton. “I think it’s great that fans can now experience the true action of Arena Football from the leader in sports video games.”
