With Week 17 in the NFL season under way, let’s take the opportunity to point and laugh at the nutty professor who went on a Twitter rant on Tuesday against beloved NFL coach-turned-broadcaster John Madden for having contributed to the dehumanization of black athletes and “glamorized violence” by lending his name to the classic “Madden” series of pro-football video games through EA Sports.
Andrew McGregor, Dr. at Dallas College is Cowboys Country’s community college. We won’t embed a tweet, just because….McGregor blocked the NewsBusters Twitter account and my Twitter account.
John Madden has many of my opinions. For the U.S., the creation of Madden was not a significant development. Further, it glorified violence in Black athletes and helped to create plantation cosplay which has only grown more in the age of fantasy football.
— Dr. Andrew McGregor (@admcgregor85) December 29, 2021
It made the fans forget the brutality of the sport and changed human behaviours into virtual numbers. This game glorified the athletes while encouraging people to forget about their humanity. Madden built a digital plantation.
— Dr. Andrew McGregor (@admcgregor85) December 29, 2021
It was an absurd thread. He added “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 ended the thread with “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 was mocked relentlessly by pro-NFL Twitter users. This tweet was then identified and shared:
This is exactly the type of play that I would use against my brother Madden. This would have perfectly complimented my fake punt offense. @mDmcgregor
— Dr. Andrew McGregor (@admcgregor85) December 28, 2017
Robert Schmad, Campus Reform, noted that McGregor has a love for race-and-sports.
In one such blog post McGregor writes that the acceptance of minority athletes is “part of a constant renegotiation born out of late-nineteenth century notions of respectability tied to a white supremacist racial hierarchy endemic to Anglo-American culture that is baked into our social, political, and sporting institutions.”
…McGregor also claims that any power racial minorities may acquire as a result of playing professional sports “is bounded up in racial capitalism — a devastating intermixing of exploitative capitalist practices with the increasingly innovative bondages of white supremacy.”
See more at the Barstool Sports Article, “Is John Madden Violently Out of Touch? Takes The Worst In The History of Bad Takes?”
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