So it was disheartening and disappointing that the second episode of the Longshot story opens up with fourth-string Cowboys quarterback Devin Wade struggling to learn the plays. Warren Moon can play in Canada, but he’ll never work in the NFL.” They can carry the ball or catch it, but they don’t have the mental faculty to lead a team as quarterback. Why the hell would EA make the main character of Longshot a dumb black quarterback? I remember in middle school when one of the other players on my all-white suburban football team told me and a bunch of others sitting around a table that “blacks can’t play QB because it requires too much thinking.” That reprehensible stereotype is that ingrained in football. Instead, I’m saying that this bothered me. I didn’t play the original Longshot, and I touched only the first half hour of this one. It seems cheesy, but I think it is that good, stinky cheese that you wind up loving.Įven this mode has its problems. It follows a handful of characters trying to make it in the NFL and … as a country singer? I don’t know. I’ve reached out to confirm this, but fans widely speculate that EA censored that fact of the game at the request of the NFL.įinally, I tried the Longshot story campaign, which is the continuation of the Longshot narrative from Madden NFL 18. Electronic Arts removed concussions from Madden two years ago. So it wasn’t great when the first exhibition game I played in Madden had four injuries in the first five or six plays of the game. If the only thing standing between functioning in society and falling between the cracks is one blow to the skull, why are we not wearing helmets all the time.īut then football has proven to us that helmets don’t help all that much - at least not if you are deliberately ramming your body with all of your might into another human 30-to-50 times once every week for about 18 weeks of the year. I think it started when I read that almost half of homeless men have experienced traumatic brain injuries at some point in their lives. I’ve lived with a fear of head injuries for years now. We meant no disrespect, and we apologize to Colin, to YG and Big Sean, to the NFL, to all of their fans and our players for this mistake.”Įven beyond the stomach-turning contempt that the NFL has for its own players, football-as-entertainment is something I’m having a more difficult time digesting.
#MADDEN 19 PC UPDATE#
We will make it right, with an update to Madden NFL 19 on August 6 that will include the reference again. We messed up, and the edit should never have happened. Members of our team misunderstood the fact that while we don’t have rights to include Colin Kaepernick in the game, this doesn’t affect soundtracks. “We made an unfortunate mistake with our Madden NFL soundtrack. When he's not a curse, he's a gift! Nobody from my team approved any of this.ĮA has released a statement about bleeping the song from a company spokesperson: It’s disappointing and appalling & took name out of my verse on Big Bank for Madden 19, like it was a curse word. That was done without YG’s or Sean Don’s permission, according to TMZ. Well, they do if you listen to the song on Spotify or the radio - the Madden version bleeps Kaepernick’s name. This league wants to stifle players from exercising their right to make a political statement, and then it has the nerve to collect my personal behavior for the purposes of making more money?ĮA and the NFL are also both desperate to make people forget about Kaepernick, so it’s weird that the game includes the song “Big Bank” by YG on its soundtrack because its lyrics explicitly mention Kaepernick by name in a verse by Sean Don.
#MADDEN 19 PC SKIN#
I understand that I’m often getting a lot of free services because Google is monetizing user data by the zetabyte.īut boy, the idea of handing my data over to the NFL makes my skin crawl. I’m typically OK with handing my data over to companies. But it is about the NFL and, in part, by the NFL, and that makes it hard to escape or ignore.įor example, one of the first things you’ll see when you start a new game of Madden NFL 19 is an option to share your data with the NFL. I talked to them at E3, and they are just trying to make a good game.
A solid crew at Tiburon puts this game together every year. You can try to compartmentalize all of that.
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