It left him without a job, seemingly blackballed by all NFL teams. He essentially sacrificed his career for it. With Madden 19, it takes things a bit further by editing out a simple name drop of a politically polarizing figure.Ĭolin Kaepernick is the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who sparked the trend of professional athletes kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustices in America. 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.”]ĮA Sports has a history of scrubbing profane lyrics from its games’ soundtracks and only presenting the squeaky clean versions.
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. Kaepernick’s name will be edited back into “Big Banks” in an August 6 patch that will arrive before Madden 19 launches on consoles. [ Update: EA Sports has issued a statement saying that it erred in censoring Colin Kaepernick’s mention from “Big Banks.” According to the developer, it didn’t have permission to use Kaepernick’s likeness in the game (apparently because he’s no longer a member of the NFL Players Association) and EA Sports mistakenly thought it wasn’t allowed to use his name in a song either.