Studs and Duds: Seriously, You Don't Like the Ending of Empire Strikes Back?

If you don't like the ending of this movie, we can't be friends.

By Jeremy Conlin (@jeremy_conlin) and Joe Parello (@HerewegoJoe)

Studs and Duds is a weekly feature on Suite Sports. Who had a good week? Who had a bad week?

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I still maintain that the release of  each year's Madden NFL Football video game should be a national holiday. So should the Super Bowl, and so should every playoff game, and really every big Monday Night game… Ok, so maybe I just don't like to work and I like football.

Forgot About that $#!+ Friday: Madden Goes Gangsta

Not pictured: Virtual TO planting the ball on the star in the middle of the virtual field.

By Joe Parello  @HerewegoJoe

The Madden Football franchise from EA Sports had been trying to successfully incorporate this new "hip hop" thing all the kids were listening to for a few years by the time 2001 rolled around. EA had shelled out money on the hottest rappers of the moment to come up with the perfect Madden Rap.

Madden 2000 (released in 1999) featured a pretty terrible Ludacris track, while Madden 2001 (released in 2000) featured a marginally better effort from Xzibit.