Houston Texans Defensive End JJ Watt hosted Saturday Night Live on February 1st. As the host of Saturday Night Live, JJ Watt participated in some of the hilarious sketches throughout the night.
One particular sketch featured JJ Watt recording lines for an upcoming MaddenNFL 21 game. JJ Watt is seen in a recording booth as he reads his script. The lines get continuously more ridiculous as Watt questions if he would ever say such things.
During the dialogue recording, Watt records funny lines like shouting “whoopsie” and “Captain Clumsy strikes again.” The entire script pokes fun at Watt’s football ability and some of the lines even have JJ Watt verbally attacking a child in a wheelchair. In reality, JJ Watt is known as an intense competitor and a compassionate philanthropist. After finishing his voice lines, Watt is shown his character model in the video game, which appears deformed. Madden is notorious for creating some character models that do not look anything like the real players.
At the end of the sketch, Watt is shown his touchdown celebration, which is the popular Fortnite dance, the Floss. JJ Watt has actually done the dance in an NFL game, so it would not be a surprise if it is seen in the actual next game as one of his celebrations, as long as they can get the rights to it.
With the Super Bowl taking place this past Sunday, it makes sense for NFL star JJ Watt to be featured on Saturday Night Live poking fun at himself and the Madden NFL games. As it so happens, EA Sports runs a simulation of the Super Bowl in Madden every year to predict the winner. This year, it successfully predicted that Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs would win the Super Bowl.
Patrick Mahomes is the first Madden cover athlete to break the curse to win a championship. It is not known who will be the next Madden cover athlete, but a large list of players are being considered. Although JJ Watt has never been on the cover of Madden, he joins an elite crowd of football players that have hosted Saturday Night Live.
Madden 21 is most likely in development for late 2020.
