Posted on 01/01/2022 3:41:00 PM PST by Impala64ssa
history professor at Dallas College used the Tuesday morning death of John Madden to claim the NFL coach’s hugely popular video game “dehumanizes” black athletes.
Andrew McGregor, whose research deals with “American culture, politics, race, and the history of sports,” wrote Madden’s football video game “was not a great development for the U.S.” as it “help[ed] to establish plantation cosplay” which has only “grown worse in the era of fantasy football.”
Madden, who led the Oakland Raiders’ for ten seasons which included the Super Bowl XI title and a remarkable 103-32-7 overall record, “built a digital plantation” with his post-coaching enterprise, McGregor argues:
At every point in his career — coach, announcer, video game producer — Madden profited off of Black athletic labor and glamorized the violence inherent in the game. He became ubiquitous and grew the NFL into the most popular game, and hastened the development of esports.
Sure, there is a lot of significance to his life and his impact. But it’s pretty clear most of his accomplishments were not beneficial or healthy for athletes, particular non-white athletes. John Madden made a life in football, one of the most violent and exploitative sports.
When your entire life is based on expanding and profiting off of one the of most violent and exploitative games, veneration is not exactly something that you deserve.
McGregor also retweeted a post which noted Madden’s game “became so synonymous with video game football” that it was taken to court over its “monopoly.” (It ended with a settlement.)
Four Christmases ago, the professor didn’t seem to think playing Madden’s game was such a big deal:
Based on the comments and reaction to his take on Madden’s business endeavor, McGregor is, in Twitter parlance, being quite “ratio’d.”
In September of 2020, McGregor ripped college football for much the same reason as the Madden game, writing that “America, after all, has a long history of exploiting Black and indigenous people of color for the pleasure and material gain of whites.” He added “Amateurism and the very structure of college athletics is caught up in the United States’ system of racial capitalism,” and that “Black athletes are embraced on the gridiron and in the community as a way to assuage white guilt.”
According to his Facebook page, McGregor is “just your neighborhood vegan liberal college professor” (see featured image). His online biography notes he “achieved moderate success” as captain of his high school track and cross country teams, and is an “unabashed booster of everything Kansas City.”
Aside from lending his name to the wildly popular video game, Madden went on to become one of the most beloved NFL sportscasters, first with CBS and then Fox Sports. His longtime booth partner Pat Summerall, an NFL player in the 1950s and early 60s, passed away in 2013.
Yes, then they would have to go into the field of academics...
Oh, wait... learnin’ is racist.
Funny, yesterday there was an infomercial for Flip Wilson show. Some of the things they did and say couldn’t be said in today’s climate - especially Geraldine, which would anger the Trans community. One of the scene had Geraldine and Redd Foxx, which is NOT PC today. I might have to buy it.
Oh, yeah! Flip Wilson, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Don Rickles, Don Imus. I grew up LMAO listening to those guys. I still watch the old Dean Martin Roasts once in a while for a good UN-PC laugh :)
Football is ‘’violent’’?
This guy ever watch a rugby match or a soccer game?
Wide World of Sports would sometimes show rugby games from Australia. Those guys are crazy!🙂
Seems like the Democrats are the Loyalists and the Republicans are the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Similar ideologies too. The Democrats are more ruthless. We do not have a Franco or a Pincohet on our side. Trump could be it but at the end he respected the Constitution. We’ll see what’ll happen in 2024.
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