Scott Caan, Jerome Bettis, and Monster.com have teamed up to search for the next NFL Director of Fandemonium. Across the United States 200,000 football fans applied for the chance to win the title. The contest has narrowed to two, Ralph Lanier Jr, of Florida, and Amanda Cameron of California. The winner by popular vote will be announced on-air during the Super Bowl XLIV pre-game show on CBS.

Scott Caan, the contest's host, chatted with PCM about the contest, his acting career, and his upcoming projects. As a football fan, Scott has enjoyed the NFL Director of Fandemonium contest thus far. "I was stoked to hang out with Jerome Bettis, I've been a fan of his for a long time." Growing up Scott was an athlete playing baseball, boxing, skateboarding, as well as surfing.

Though Scott's father, James Caan, was famous for his role in the Godfather, Scott said his home life was ordinary as a child, "My father didn't do a ton of work when I was growing up, he took a bunch of time off when I was a kid. It was kind of normal. I didn't even know he was a big star." James Caan is known for his take charge persona on screen, Scott laughs, "He was pretty much like that when I was a kid."

When he was 13 he met his life long friend, then a young Alan Maman, better known today as Alchemist, who would grow up to become producer of Hip-Hop group Dilated Peoples. Together as teenagers they recorded their first Hip-Hop demo titled "The Lower Level" with Quincy Jones Jr. of QD3 and went on to form a Hip-Hop group The Whooliganz. The group caught the ear of rapper B-Real and soon after he invited Scott to join the Soul Assassins Crew and Scott found himself touring with rap juggernauts House of Pain and Cypress Hill. Scott recalls, "Those dudes were knocking people out once a week. If somebody stepped to DJ Muggz he would definitely knock somebody out quickly. Danny Boy was a scrapper, all those dudes were just rowdy."

Scott says his family was supportive of his music career, "School wasn't really my thing, so its good that I was able to figure out how to be creative or else I'd probably would have been trying to rob you or something."

Since then Scott has grown into a fine actor with numerous television and film credits, including his role as a psychopath boyfriend in Steve Martin's Novocaine. Scott particularly enjoyed working with Martin, "It was fun to do that. The guy's a legend. Its definitely cool to work with people you grew up watching in movies." He has also shared the big screen with stars such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Colin Farrell, and Julia Roberts.

His role as Scott Lavin for the hit show Entourage is looking to be a long running opportunity, "The show is great. Its a cool and creative environment. I made some good relationships, I'm gonna do the show again this year." reveals Scott.

Scott's next big project is his adaptation of the James Toback book "Jim: The Author's Self-centered Memoir on the Great Jim Brown" which will be produced by Brett Ratner, who also produced Rush Hour and X-Men: The Last Stand. "Jim Brown is the greatest football player of all time." explains Scott about his motivations to create this story. "Oddly enough I changed him from a football player to a basketball player. It seems to me these days that there are bigger superstars in the NBA. I feel like the guy that is getting the 90 million dollar endorsement deal right out of high school is a basketball player today. I need this kid in the screenplay to be an overnight multi-multi-millionaire and success story. So I chose to make it a basketball player."

Scott continues to be a fan of new music, keeping up with Jay-Z, Artic Monkeys, and the Crooked Vultures latest releases. He hasn't ruled out a return to the microphone himself, "I don't know man, you never know."

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