Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen unveiled his MLB 13 The Show video game cover today, pic above comes via the Freak Show. It has been quite some time since a Pittsburgh athlete has been on the cover of a video game. I mean, the City of Champions went through a stretch where 2 Super Bowls and a Stanley Cup were had, along with another championship game appearance by both the Steelers and Penguins. And despite that, here we are with a Pirate on a cover. The only person able to take advantage of the recent-championship gloss was…
Bill Cowher, stunningly. This game was likely horrible. Mel Kiper was a featured aspect. I never tried to play it. But without The Chin, we'd have to go 12 years between Cutch and…
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Mario Lemieux on NHL 2002. A Cup and some scoring titles and MVPs and a slew of other hardware have only gotten Sid and Geno (Geno) a loss to Claude Giroux for NHL 13's honors. Puke-sacks. And prior to that…
Fake Kordell Stewart on Blitz 98.
Can you only get a cover when your team sucks?
*UPDATE*
Forgot Troy got half a cover of Madden 2010. Sorry, I stopped playing Madden after my buddy used to shred people with Mike Vick when he was a Falcon on the cover. And a ring couldn't even get Troy a full cover.
Also props to Larry Fitz, who made it as a non-professional Pittsburgh rep as well.
Point remains. Half of Troy is all that joins Cutch on a modern platform. And still newer platforms are getting announced in a few months.
