We were reminded to comment about the new Madden game earlier today because Dan Patrick and producer Paul Pabst were talking about the game during Patrick’s daily radio show.

And, since few of you likely play the game as the Detroit Lions (unless you really enjoy a challenge) Pabst mentioned something that caught our interest.

The game includes Caleb Campbell on the Lions’ roster.

Campbell is the West Point grad who was famously paraded for the television cameras on the second day of the draft, pursuant to a policy that supposedly would allow Campbell to play football despite his obligation to serve in the Army.  Then, days before the start of training camp, the Department of Defense yelled “psych!” and yanked Campbell out of the NFL.

EA Sports didn’t follow suit, likely because it was too late to make the change.

Maybe via the online updates there’ll be a mini-game in which Campbell tries to avoid capture after going AWOL.