LA Times Archives - Common Sense Post https://commonsensepost.org/tag/la-times/ Blogging for Freedom Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:34:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/commonsensepost.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-flag.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 LA Times Archives - Common Sense Post https://commonsensepost.org/tag/la-times/ 32 32 190734107 On the Death of John Madden, EA Madden, and Common Sense https://commonsensepost.org/on-the-death-of-john-madden-ea-madden-and-common-sense/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:34:50 +0000 https://commonsensepost.org/?p=8713 The death of John Madden reminded me of why I am here. It was the summer of 2020, and I was still drawing editorial sports cartoons for the Los Angeles Times.
American cities were still burning and rioters looting when EA Sports released Madden21. The popular and massively profitable video game was released on August 28th, just two weeks before the NFL was to resume a full schedule.

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