EA Sports apologizes for cutting Colin Kaepernick’s name out of Madden 19 soundtrack, will add it back in update

EA Sports issued an apology for cutting former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick out of a song on the Madden 19 video game soundtrack.

TheGrio Staff

Aug 3, 2018

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EA Sports issued an apology for cutting former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick out of a song on the Madden 19 video game soundtrack.

The song in question is “Big Bank” by rapper YG. On the track Big Sean‘s verse includes the lines “Feed me to the wolves now I lead the pack and s**t. You boys all cap, I’m more Colin Kaepernick.”

Kaepernick is famously no longer in the NFL after he spearheaded a protest against police brutality that manifested as him kneeling during the national anthem that is played before each NFL game. Other NFL players followed suit and caught the ire of Donald Trump and other conservatives who saw the protest as unpatriotic and somehow disrespectful to military veterans.

The activist/quarterback has been out of work ever since his contract with the 49ers expired and now a new NFL policy prohibits kneeling during the anthem.

Since Kaepernick is no longer in the NFL, he is not set to be included as a player in Madden 19, but the powers that be at EA Sports decided that the man’s name could not even be mentioned in a song.

Big Sean was big mad about it and took to Twitter to complain. “It’s disappointing and appalling @NFL & @EA took @Kaepernick7’s name out of my verse on Big Bank for Madden 19, like it was a curse word. When he’s not a curse, he’s a gift! Nobody from my team approved any of this,” Big Sean posted on Thursday.

It’s disappointing and appalling @NFL & @EA took @Kaepernick7’s name out of my verse on Big Bank for Madden 19, like it was a curse word. When he’s not a curse, he’s a gift! Nobody from my team approved any of this.

— Sean Don (@BigSean) August 2, 2018

Many others gave the gaming giant the side-eye as well, prompting EA Sports to issue an apology about the debacle. “We made an unfortunate mistake with our Madden NFL soundtrack,” wrote EA Sports on Twitter. Apparently, the issue will be fixed with an August 6 update.