(S4) - PT #3 - Cover Athlete

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Angus Winchester is going to be on the cover of a video game in 2018. Not Madden. Actually not anything related to sports at all. Angus Winchester is going to be on the cover of Farming Simulator 2018. He'll be riding on a tractor, because that's pretty much all they have to put on the cover of Farming Simulator. So how is it that such a high profile athlete ends up in such a low-rent game? Well, we're not exactly sure.

Angus Winchester grew up on a farm, there's that. But that's about where the connection ends. According to his agent he was contacted by the marketing firm in charge of the cover design for the game who pitched it like this "Literally nobody else will take this. We'll give you $10,000 and a goat." Although he was initially skeptical Winchester could not turn down an opportunity to get a new goat, as well as sit on a tractor for a photoshoot. Because tractors are awesome. Okay, not really. But Winchester really likes them. He also tried to convince them to take a few shots of him picking up a pig or tackling a cattle rustler, but those ideas were quickly shot down. So he's just sitting on a tractor, looking like a farmer.