Prior to the unveiling of the cover, the Undefeated's Aaron Dodson caught up with Jackson to discuss his Tecmo Bowl days, how Bo Knows came to Mut 22 coins life in his Madden return and much more.

What is it like for you to finally become an athlete who covers the sport 35 years after your career began?

The idea has been in preparation off and on for years. The timing had to be just right for my brand. The teaming up with the Madden team to iron things out, dot all the i's, cross the t'sOnce we got that completed, the rest was just about going for it. I thought that, somewhere in my past I'd done the right thing to be thought of as one of the greatest players from three decades ago. Madden believes that enough of me to do something like this.

Your history with video games goes to 1989, when you were the mainstay on the stage at the Tecmo Bowl. What was it like seeing yourself on the screen back then?

I'm still envisioning myself as a player in the Tecmo Bowl. I'm still playing an old videogame. I've still got the machine to play it on. But it's in a box somewhere in storage. It's iconic. It makes me feel good to hear grown men in their 40s saying"Hi, my cousin and I got into the biggest conflict of our lives, because we both wanted to be in the Tecmo Bowl when we were young. We took our parents' game and my dad locked it up in his tool cabinet. We were unable to buy Madden 22 coins play it for about a month as the battle was so fierce.' I hear that often. When I attend sports memorabilia shows, individuals come up to the video game. They tell me, 'I've own the machine that I play it on. My kids play it. My grandkids are fans ... too. And everyone has a debate about who's gonna be Bo Jackson.' Tecmo Bowl ... that was quite a bit of technology in the past. You look at it now and think, 'Wow it's an old-fashioned.'

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