In the arms race to produce increasingly weirder commercials (we blame that phenomenon on the Old Spice ads), Madden NFL 16 has presented the latest entry. And it features 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as Al Pacino in ‘Scent of a Woman.’
Yes, you read that right. Kap plays the blind, retired Army Ranger part that won Pacino an Oscar. The Madden trailer doesn’t get less weird from there. Dave Franco (brother of James) plays a Rambo lookalike, McLovin’ plays a part-time Bollywood dancer(?) and Rob Gronkowski plays more-subdued version of himself.
The trailer also stars Julio Jones, Rex Ryan and Antonio Brown, whose character name is ‘Sticky Bun.