EA SPORTS removing Jon Gruden from Madden 22 following email scandal EA SPORTSFollowing Jon Gruden\u2019s resignation from the Raiders, EA SPORTS have announced he will be removed from Madden 22. After the former coach\u2019s racist, homophobic, and sexist emails were leaked, the franchise is removing him to promote \u201cinclusion and equity.\u201d In recent days, the NFL news mill has been overrun by Jon Gruden\u2019s leaked emails. Amid a 3-2 Las Vegas Raiders season, the former coach and media personality resigned because he does \u201cnot want to be a distraction.\u201d The emails were discovered during an investigation into the Washington Football Team, with Gruden\u2019s correspondences dating back to his days as an ESPN media personality. In response to the context surrounding his resignation, EA SPORTS have decided to remove him from Madden 22 completely. Instead, he will be replaced by a \u201cgeneric likeness.\u201d Jon Gruden to be removed from Madden 22 In an October 13 tweet, EA explained that they are \u201ccommitted to taking action in maintaining a culture of inclusion and equity.\u201d Further, \u201cdue to the circumstances of Jon Gruden\u2019s resignation, we are taking steps to remove him from Madden NFL 22.\u201d As far as those circumstances, they constitute a variety of discriminatory language used by Gruden in the 650,000 investigated emails. While the removal will not take place for some weeks, its announcement swiftly follows news of Gruden\u2019s October 11 resignation. Some are already wondering why interim head coach Rich Bisaccia won\u2019t be the replacement, but EA have yet to reveal additional details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
EA SPORTS removing Jon Gruden from Madden 22 following email scandal EA SPORTSFollowing Jon Gruden\u2019s resignation from the Raiders, EA SPORTS have announced he will be removed from Madden 22. After the former coach\u2019s racist, homophobic, and sexist emails were leaked, the franchise is removing him to promote \u201cinclusion and equity.\u201d In recent days, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}