As covered elsewhere, John Madden’s partnership with EA created one of the most important (and profitable) video game franchises in history. He was/is literally

As covered elsewhere, John Madden’s partnership with EA created one of the most important (and profitable) video game franchises in history. He was/is literally the face of the “sports video game.” That’s relevant to this forum. As for sports, while you can not find it interesting personally it’s clear it is interesting to a huge number of people. The consequences and study of that should be interesting in and of itself.