{"id":1245,"date":"2026-06-05T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:06:34","slug":"vince-vaughn-breaks-down-his-ea-sports-history-from-swingers-to-the-breakup-to-madden-nfl-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Vince Vaughn Breaks Down His EA Sports History: From \u2018Swingers\u2019 to \u2018The Breakup\u2019 to \u2018Madden NFL 27\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tVincent. Anthony. Vaughn. He\u2019s in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe <em>Wedding Crashers<\/em> star\u2019s latest gig is an especially fun and serendipitous role: Vaughn is the \u201cvoice and hero\u201d of the <em>Madden NFL 27<\/em> ad campaign. And the guy who once \u201cwent from the third team to the prep team\u201d as Jamie O\u2019Hare in <em>Rudy<\/em> (1993) perfectly quarterbacks the commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1243\">\u2018Backrooms\u2019 Director Kane Parsons: What to Know About the 20-Year-Old Behind A24\u2019s Biggest Hit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Madden<\/em>, EA Sports\u2018 signature video game, filmed this year\u2019s ad at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Ill., where Vaughn grew up and the Chicago Bears practice. (The NFC North team plays their home games 40 miles south at Soldier Field in Chicago.)<\/p>\n<p>\n\tVaughn is not only a big Bears fan, he\u2019s a big <em>Madden<\/em> fan as well. To align the two, Vaughn was only needed for a day \u2014 albeit \u201ca big, long, full shoot day,\u201d he tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe result, a four-minute reveal trailer that will be posted in full on YouTube and dissected into 15- and 30-second increments for more traditional TV and streaming ads, is one of the best video game commercials since \u201cGenesis Does What Nintendon\u2019t\u201d (1990), Nintendo\u2019s <em>Super Smash Bros<\/em>. television spot (1999), or the entire movie <em>The Wizard<\/em> (1989) starring Fred Savage. For the \u201cIt\u2019s Your League\u201d spot, its pitchman is in pitch-perfect Vaughn mode, and Caleb Williams, the Bears QB and <em>Madden NFL 27<\/em> cover athlete, is one hell of a backup.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhat I liked about it is\u2014 I think we all kind of immerse ourselves in building the team and kind of creating the craziness. You are the GM, and you are the owner, and you can be the player, and you are the coach,\u201d Vaughn said. \u201cLeaning into that felt\u2014 in and of itself it was a fun idea, but it\u2019s not far off, I think, from as gamers and sports fans how we approach doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tVaughn can speak for the rest of us, because he\u2019s had more late <em>Madden<\/em> nights than most, whether that be back in the day or more recently in his kids\u2019 treehouse. And though this marks Vaughn\u2019s first official collab with EA, he\u2019s acted (literally) as perhaps their best unofficial pitchman outside of Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn <em>The Breakup<\/em> (2006), Vaughn trash talks his 12-year-old online opponent in <em>Madden<\/em> <em>NFL 06<\/em> before next handing his business on the sticks in a couch competition against his ex-girlfriend\u2019s (Jennifer Aniston) date. A decade earlier, Vaughn dominated his <em>Swingers<\/em> (1996) co-star Sue (Patrick Van Horn) in <em>NHLPA Hockey \u201993<\/em>, published by Electronic Arts.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThey\u2019ve always been nice to me,\u201d Vaughn said of EA. \u201cIt\u2019s part of the culture, I think, for us as guys growing up. It\u2019s what we did. We\u2019d get together and play these games, so [EA has] always been cool with allowing us to use it as part of a story we were telling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1241\">Late Actor Christian Oliver Wrapped a New Spiritual Documentary Weeks Before His Death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe iconic <em>Swingers<\/em> scene in particular, the one in which Vaughn\u2019s character makes digital Wayne Gretzky\u2019s head bleed, was (Electronic) art imitating life.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe would get together at night after going out and order Pink Dot, and then we would play in teams of two vs. two. But whenever someone would score, you could control the instant replay, and we would do that, where you would rewind to the goal, you know, 20 times in a row. People would lose their minds, but all that stuff\u2014 a lot of that stuff came from how we actually would tease and play with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThough the goal-scoring wasn\u2019t Vaughn so much as it was Roenick, the Gretzky cheap shot was all Vince. Given the film\u2019s famously low budget, it was Vaughn\u2019s personal trial-and-error that drew blood and put \u201cThe Great One\u201d in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIn making Gretzky\u2019s head bleed, which was in the script, we were almost gonna give up on it until I just put it on two-player, with Gretzky sitting there, and I just kept running him,\u201d Vaughn said. \u201cThankfully, I hit him. And then if you remember, they had the instant replay on the game, you could back it up, and so we were able to back it up and film it. But it 100 percent was us playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Madden NFL 27<\/em> is set to release on Aug. 13; gamers who purchase special editions (like the \u201cDeluxe\u201d or \u201cMVP\u201d bundles) or subscribe to EA Play Pro can play one week prior.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe \u201cIt\u2019s Your League\u201d trailer was revealed Thursday evening during EA Sports\u2019 <em>Madden NFL 27<\/em> and <em>College Football 27<\/em> \u201cOpening Drive Official Reveal Event\u201d livestream on YouTube; watch it below.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1239\">Rupert Everett Says He \u201cRuined\u201d Himself Trying to Attain Perfect Body for Roles<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vince Vaughn talks teaming up with EA Sports as the voice and face of its hilarious Madden NFL 27 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1110,1111,1112],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-ea-sports","tag-madden-nfl-27","tag-vince-vaughn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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