still to cheap to go out and buy a new widescreen set, but like the widescreen gameplay. other ea games offer the option, and i believe CL-05 was exclusive letterbox.

Why would you want that unless you have an actual widescreen tv?

as i mentioned above, for the gameplay aspect of seeing 75% of the field when playing. helps for setting up plays and long passes.

Yeah, that's true, i see where you're coming from. Well, the most xbox and ps2 games gives you the option to choose in what format you want to play the game in.