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In something of a shallow philosophical mood, and I got to wondering, for those folks who enjoy the odd sports game in their video game life, how do you play the "player career mode" that has become popular in many franchises?

I guess what I'm curious about is, whether it's an American football game, world football game (soccer), baseball, hockey, cricket, etc. and you go about building either yourself, or a character to play out a career in the game do you have certain aims? Do you have a goal of only playing for one team (whether its your favorite in that sport, or just the one chosen for you by the game, but by golly you're gonna be a one club person!), or do you chase the virtual paychecks, and go for any team willing to pay for your pixel-self? or do you just opt for the "I'll save at the end of the session, whatever happens, happens" and play for as many clubs as the game decides for you?

Or, do you even ignore career player modes in favor of manager modes, or just straight pick-up games with the kids or friends?


**Obviously, if you do not enjoy sports games periodically, no real need to state that

The only sports games I ever put much time into were WAY back in the day (like, 20 years ago!), and those were Madden NFL 2003 and NASCAR Thunder 2003, both on the Nintendo Gamecube. I tried out the Fantasy Draft in Madden and thought it was fun seeing what kind of combination of players I ended up with (can't remember who off the top of my head other than that I'm pretty sure I had a young Peyton Manning as my QB). I'm pretty sure I only played a few games with it though. On the NASCAR game, I played through a whole season of the career mode and did win the championship that year, but I remember thinking it was a slog and not keeping on with the career.

Haven't really touched a sports game since, other than NASCAR 2006 on the original Xbox (and I didn't play much of that). Nothing against sports games, but they just really aren't my cup of tea.