Brooks, Aikman unveil room for sick kids

Rodnick Phillips, 9, of Haslett, Texas, left, celebrates as he defeats Country super star Garth Brooks, center, at a video game as Hall of Fame NFL football player Troy Aikman, right, looks on at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008. Aikman and Brooks were on hand to participate in unveiling the new sports-themed Zone playroom at the medical center. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

FORT WORTH, Texas—Two proven superstars -- on the music charts and on the football field -- were no match for some young patients at Cook Children's Medical Center.

Country singer Garth Brooks and Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman on Tuesday picked up video-playing pointers from hospitalized kids in Fort Worth.

The crooner and the Dallas Cowboy-turned-television-sportscaster helped unveil an updated therapeutic playroom for patients called the Zone Playroom.

Brooks joined forces with the NHL, the NHL Players Association and the entertainer's own Teammates for Kids Foundation to donate the space. The area formerly was known as Aikman's End Zone.

"We wanted to do something for them because they spend all day in their bedrooms," Aikman said, "and we just wanted to get them out of there so they could have a little bit of fun."

Brooks, wearing a cowboy hat, at one point popped the topper on the head of Aikman, whose efforts at video air guitar still failed. Brooks, turning to card games, played Go Fish with several children.

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On the Net:

Hospital: http://www.cookchildrens.org/

Teammates for Kids Foundation: http://www.touchemall.com