A few people from my site and ArsTechnica.com’s messageboard are putting a small league together to play some Madden against other sane people. A few rules are set to make things a little more interesting than the typical random matchup online. For example, you can’t use a team rated more than 80 overall (that means no Rams or any other team with a few sure-thing attacks).
Anyway, should be fun - come on by here if you want to check it out.
PS I’m a bit apprehensive posting a link to my board - I don’t want to be construed as whoring or anything. I figure only one or two people will read this anyway so it’s ok. 
Mods feel free to delete if this is out-of-bounds.