"Willis McGahee, now I've never met a black man by the name McGahee, are you from Scotland?" "After the game, you're all invited to a party at P-I-M-P, put your money in my pocket, LaVar Arrington's 7,000 square foot suite at the Hyatt. "I'm always playing Madden, I just hope all my practice pays off." Meanwhile, as The Human Joystick, Pep, Carr, and the rest of the competitors jumped on stage for the first round, the event's host, comedian Anthony Anderson of My Baby's Daddy and Barbershop fame took to the stage to start cutting on all of the players, and in the 10-year history of the event, no host got more laughs from both the crowd and players alike. "My friends call me the Human Joystick because I play so many video games," Hall said as he warmed up for the opening round. But if I play the way I know I can, I think I have a good shot at going all the way." Besides Freeney, McGahee, and Peppers, the remainder of the Madden Bowl finalists included Ahman Green of the Packers, DeShaun Foster of the Panthers, David Carr of the Texans, LaVar Arrington of the Redskins, and the man who seemed destined to win by nickname alone, the only man with moves so spectacular, they can't be copied in polygonal form, Dante Hall of the Chiefs. Willis McGahee looks tough, so does Julius Peppers. "It's a new year, all new competitors, all new strategies. John Madden, if you're listening, I expect to be a whole lot better in the new game." Defending champ Dwight Freeney of the Colts was back to defend his title, but as he looked around the room at the new competition, he knew he was in for a challenge. Hopefully now that I'm a starter, they'll boost up my stats a bit for the game. "So now that I'm in the game, it's even more special to me. "When I was a kid, I used to be the first one at the store the day Madden came out, I had to be the first one to buy a copy every year," said Jags quarterback Byron Leftwich. But once the impromptu bump and grind was broken up by security (haters), all attention was focused back on the main topic of the night, video games. Jevon Kearse was challenging gamers from across the country to online battles of Street, Big Boi from OutKast was talking Madden strategy, not stripper poles, and speaking of strippers, the Madden Bowl even had its own Road House moment as a blonde jumped up on a table, pulled up her top, and started rubbing some buttons not on any controller. Where else are you going to see Barry Sanders and Roy Williams playing NFL Street to the right of you and LaVar Arrington and Julius Peppers playing Madden to your left. Diddy sporting a diamond cross and earrings worth about half a mil, but when you looked around the Roxy night club Thursday night one thing was for sure, to the people in attendance, for one night at least, forget Bad Boy, it was EA for life.
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