totally agree with you on that one!! thats one reason that i might not buy the wii

How do you know you don't prefer playing football with the wiimote? Sorry, but I don't believe anyone here has actually played Madden 07 with a wiimote. From what I've read, the wiimote and nunchuk will be used to play Madden and that it's very intuitive, fun, and complex. I think it's way more complex and immersive to make different movements with a controller instead of tired old button presses.

i mean soccer!!!

Regardless what the sport is, football or soccer (soccer's better, by the way), until you've actually played them with a wiimote/nunchuk, you can't claim that you wouldn't enjoy it.

OK, think of it this way... No matter what kind of controls you use, all the different controls have to be covered in one way or another. Now, knowing this, how do you replace the motion with the gamecube controller? You can't, there aren't enough joysticks on the GCN controller. There are also buttons on the GCN controller that aren't on the Wii controller. The game would have to be designed to use one or the other. Either that or have an option to switch (which you can't expect every game to have).