Racist 'Madden' player featured in EA's E3 press conference
During its E3 2017 press conference today, EA spent a few minutes talking about its sports games and their competitive communities. One of the players featured in their supercut of pro sports game players was Chris "Dubby" McFarland, a Madden player who was fined and forced to apologize after EA Sports **ticed his habit of tweeting out Racist messages.
Dubby won $75,000 for his first-place finish at the Madden Bowl 2017 tournament in February and was fined $3,000 after tweeting multiple offensive messages. After people went back through his timeline and found a handful of Racist tweets, Dubby decided the best course of action would be to write more. The new set of tweets were apparently what landed him the fine. Read more...