EA Server Connection Issues:
Please do the following on the PS3:
Under the GAME tab - next to tv/video services
-Go into Game Data Utility
-Delete Madden 12 Game data
-Go into Saved Saved Data Utility
-Delete All Rosters
------Online Roster Downloads
------Any Custom Rosters you created
Under the PLAYSTATION NETWORK tab - next to friends
-Go into Account Management
-My downloads
-Re-download the madden 12 online pass
****This will not effect franchise mode or profile saved data******
****The reason why you do this is because you possibly downloaded the file while your PC and other programs running on the internet were running and caused the file not to download correctly and allowed the files to become corruptted******
Any game connection issues you are experiencing, this always fixes the problem at least 90% of the time.