Favorite sports game? (NO MADDEN)

Overall I choose Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. It also ranks as one of my all-time favorite games.
I'm also a big fan of the NBA 2K basketball games. I think they've gotten better each year since I've started playing them, so NBA 2K9 is my current favorite.

Forgot Leroy Smith's 2 on 2 Hall of Fame Challenge.

MLB 09 THE SHOW

Street Fighter, a little unrealistic as I've only ever had one person actually throw a Hadouken at me, hurts alot more than the games make it seem I'll tell you; still got the black singe on my chest to this day.

But other than that, I've never played a sports game for more than 5 minutes without getting bored and putting in something better.

Blood Bowl!

Fifa 09

Madden, but I love the original NBA Street. A close second is NFL Blitz.

FIFA 09.

I hope FIFA 2010 and its PES counterpart are good.

NBA JAM JAM jam jam jam

SSX3...

It's Extreme Sports. :P


Hrm.... Gran Turismo 3?

It is a Motor 'Sport' afterall...


I'd like to play a tennis game though... Reviews for the two big uns are pretty terrible as of late... So probably not until a 'savior' of sorts arrives in the scene.

Overall I'm not in much interest in virtual or real 'sports'.

People are gonna flame me, but I love The Bigs.
Me and my brother play this game for hours, just game after game.  (here is where the flaming might happen)  I've tried MLB The Show, and didn't like it even close to as much as The Bigs.

oh, I like Skate 2 a lot too.

NBA Street

NHL 94

Base Wars

Crap, I never posted Mario Power Tennis in here.  That game was awesome.

World Series Baseball on the Genesis. NBA Jam is a close second.

DiRT
NBA Jam
Mutant League Hockey
ExciteBike

I think that's it.

edit:

Thought of a few others:

Punch-Out
Double Dribble

NBA 2K... ALL OF THEM!

NHL 94

NBA Jam

Mutant League Football

Mega Man Soccer

NHL09 > all

NCAA Football is actually my favorite and I prefer it over Madden. Alternativley MLB 2K8 was one of my favorite baseball games, pitched 2 perfect games with Barry Zito lol.

NBA Street was amazing goodness that NBA Street Volume 2 just expanded on and perfected.  And of course NBA Jam is a classic.  I really wish it would be ported to XBLA or PSN one day.  And I also enjoyed and played NHL Hitz 2002 a lot.

Mutant League Football... duh 
 
Although I did have some damn good times with Mutant League Hockey and NBA Jam back in the day too.
Too bad Mutant League Basketball got canceled.

SSX 3

I don't see why no Madden, but Fifa for me.

Bigs 2

Skate 2!

NHL '94 (Genesis)

FIFA 10.

Are you ready for some football?!  Some Monday Night Football !!   
 
Yeah, me neither.  I don't like Madden.  I understand the basics of the sport enough to watch it on TV, but not the details to actually play the game myself.  On the other hand, I do know the intricacies of baseball to play it but there are no baseball games that ever moved me as much as watching it live.  The best median I can think of is basketball.  In fact, I was hooked on NBA Showdown '94 for the Genesis for a chunk of time in my younger days.  I followed the sport on ESPN everyday and played out the games with my virtual New York Knicks.  Only my Knicks were a little more successful against the Jordan Bulls.  I haven't been into any sports game as much as that since NBA Showdown '94.  Truly, my favorite sports game ever.

Skate 1 and two

FIFA