Gus Johnson to be Madden 11 announcer

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In a madcap dash covering the last seconds of 2009's first Sunday of football, the Denver Broncos won their game, Gus Johnson lost his mind, and Madden NFL 11 found its voice.

Today, Johnson, the exciting and excitable CBS sportscaster, officially became the fourth play-by-play man to hold sports gaming's top booth job. Teased at the end of this video a month ago, Johnson's hiring is hardly a shocker, and neither are EA Sports' reasons for grabbing him. After nearly 20 years of often sedate, always straightforward calls by the likes of Pat Summerall and Al Michaels, Madden badly needed the kind of high-five-yourself enthusiasm Johnson imposes on a game.

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He didn't declare that White had "Gettin' away from the cops speed!" (that's for ex-teammate Chris Johnson, anyway) but Morales vowed that Madden 11 will deliver enough Gus-isms to drop jaws and light up message boards. The Madden team brought in two sports writers - feeding them a comprehensive library of Johnson's work - and had them develop lines for him to say at the beginning, middle and ends of a play, as well as pre-snap, all of varying intensity.

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