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Michael Vick Says He Was Better Video Game Athlete Than Bo Jackson

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Attention, gamers who have been raised on PlayStation 3, 4 and Xbox: There once were generations of video game consumers who reveled in subpar graphics and glitches galore.

When it came to football games, two of the most unstoppable characters ever, whether it was a glitch or just unfair programming, were Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Michael Vick in Madden 2004.

The newly retired Vick recently went on FS1's TMZ Sports and declared that his character was the greatest ever, even better than Jackson's from the late 1980s (00:53 mark):

It's quite a statement to make considering friendships were ruined when gamers fought over who could be Jackson and the Oakland Raiders.