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The 2004 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players . It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting . The draft was held April 24  25 , 2004 at the Theater at Madison ___MASK16___ Garden in New York City . No teams chose to claim any players in the supplemental draft that year . Madden NFL ( known as John Madden Football before 1993 ) is an American football video game series developed by ___MASK22___ for EA Sports . It is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden , a well - known former Super Bowl  winning coach of the Oakland Raiders and color commentator . The series has sold more than 100 million copies , and influenced many players and coaches of the physical sport . Among the game ' s realistic features are sophisticated playbooks and player statistics , and voice commentary that allows players to hear the game as if it were a real TV broadcast . As of September 2013 , the franchise generated over $ 4 billion in revenue . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can ___MASK43___ two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . NASCAR Thunder 2004 is a racing simulator by ___MASK60___ , released in 2003 and available in separate versions for PlayStation , PlayStation 2 , Xbox , and PC . It features the 2002 champion Tony Stewart on the cover with a scowling look to represent the new Grudges and Alliances feature . It was the only game as of 2002 to feature the previous Winston ( Sprint ) Cup Champion on the cover . The game had the most extensive soundtrack of the series up from four songs from the previous game . The game also has a career mode , season mode , Lightning Challenge mode , SpeedZone , as well as a tutorial mode featuring Richard Petty . The game is an ___MASK60___ Bio game , and is compatible with other ___MASK60___ Bio games like " Madden NFL 2004 " and " NCAA Football 2004 ". A ___MASK40___ GameCube port was planned but was cancelled , as the console did not support Online Play . Kirk Herbstreit ( born August 19 , 1969 ) is an American analyst for ESPN ' s " College GameDay ", a television program covering college football and a provider of color commentary on college football games on ESPN and ABC . He appeared annually as a commentator in ___MASK60___ ' " NCAA Football " until the series was put on hiatus following " NCAA Football 14 ". He was a quarterback on the Ohio State football team . He saw action in several games his junior season and was the starting quarterback throughout his senior season . ___MASK60___ ( stylized as ___MASK60___ ) is a brand of ___MASK35___ that creates and develops sports video games . Formerly a marketing gimmick of ___MASK35___ , in which they tried to imitate real - life sports networks by calling themselves the " ___MASK60___ Network " ( EASN ) with pictures or endorsements with real commentators such as John Madden , it soon grew up to become a sub - label on its own , releasing game series such as " NBA Live ", " FIFA ", " NHL ", " Madden NFL ", and " NASCAR ". The best selling ___MASK60___ series is the " FIFA " series with over 100 million units sold . NCAA Football 2005 is an American college football video game which was released on July 15 , 2004 . It is the successor to NCAA Football 2004 in the NCAA Football series . The product features former Pittsburgh Panthers and current Arizona Cardinals standout wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald on the cover . The game is the NCAA Football series released by ___MASK60___ . This would be the final game in the NCAA Football series to be released to the ___MASK40___ Gamecube . ___MASK35___ Inc . ( EA ) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City , California . Founded and incorporated on May 28 , 1982 by Trip Hawkins , the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games . As of 2014 , ___MASK35___ was the world ' s fourth - largest gaming company by revenue after Tencent , Sony and Microsoft The company sparked controversies over its advertising efforts , and acquisition of other studios . Bradley " Brad " Nessler ( born June 3 , 1956 ) is an American sportscaster , who currently calls NFL and college football games for CBS . He has also called " Thursday Night Football " on NFL Network from 2011 to 2013 , and appeared annually as a commentator in ___MASK60___ ' " NCAA Football series ". Also , his voice ( and that of his broadcast partner , Dick Vitale ) was featured in ___MASK60___ ' " NCAA March Madness " video game series . NCAA Football 2004 is an American football video game released in 2003 by Tiburon . It is the successor to NCAA Football 2003 in the NCAA Football series . The player on the cover is former USC quarterback Carson Palmer . The game is available for play with the N - Gage . Commentators are Brad Nessler , Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso . The game is an ___MASK60___ Bio game , and is compatible with other games with the feature (" Madden NFL 2004 " and " NASCAR Thunder 2004 ", for example ). Larry Darnell Fitzgerald Jr . ( born August 31 , 1983 ) is an American football wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League ( NFL ). He was drafted by the Cardinals third overall in the 2004 NFL Draft . He played college football at Pittsburgh , where he earned unanimous All - American honors . A wide receiver ( also referred to as wideouts or simply receivers ) is an offensive position in American and Canadian football , and is the ___MASK26___ player in most of the passing plays . They get their name because they are split out " wide " ( near the sidelines ), furthest away from the rest of the team . Wide receivers are among the fastest players on the field . The wide receiver functions as the pass - catching specialist .