Hillis has also been in the middle of a contract dispute with the Browns.
The technology humbled some once promising outfits, like Danny Hillis' Thinking Machines and Larry Ellison's ncube.
Mr Hillis said he was "very apprehensive about the event given the problems that they had in Brighton".
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Instead, Hillis defeated one of the biggest names in the 32-team bracket before taking down No. 3 seed Vick.
This year, Hillis has been plagued by injuries and surrounded by trade rumors.
Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis is the latest victim of this curse.
The team offered him a contract extension earlier this year, but Hillis, taking the advice of his agent, walked away.
Hillis is the first Madden cover athlete who was voted in by fans through an ESPN cross-promotion with EA Sports.
When she couldn't find a location that fit her budget, she went into business with Nashville fashion designer Kyah Hillis.
Hillis, who has lived in Weona for 66 years, said he would have never thought the water could get that high.
Running back Peyton Hillis is another player who has shown flashes of brilliance but was pushed into a backup role last season.
"It's going to be a crying shame when the water goes down and they're actually going to see the damage they are going to have, " Hillis said.
The game sold nearly 1 million copies in its first 24 hours and sales are up 7% over last year's game, which featured Peyton Hillis on the cover.
Hillis is a big-bodied back who, at the very least, is a more-than-capable goalline option and at best is a punishing, every-down threat as both runner and receiver.
And NFL fans (along with a lot of animal rights activists), have chosen Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis to appear on the cover of Madden NFL 12.
After the lockout ended, Hillis told me he was excited to play football again and humbled by the fans selecting him to be on the cover of the new game.
"You know I always wanted to fish off my front porch, but I never wanted to do it this way, " former Poinsett County, Arkansas, Judge Doyle Hillis told CNN affiliate KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Other conference goers, many of whom are Gadgetoff regulars, also shone: including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman, computer engineer Danny Hillis, polymathic inventor Dean Kamen, sly literary agent John Brockman and Creative Good's Mark Hurst.
The Indian gallery features a Rembrandt Peale portrait (c. 1813) of future U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who defeated Tecumseh at Thames, as well as a buckskin jacket worn by Hillis Hadjo, leader of the Red Sticks (Batons Rouge), who were defeated by another future U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.
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