The CPR touchdown celebration is being removed from Madden NFL 23.
It was all in good fun until a game between the Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals on January 2, during which Hamlinafter performing a tackle. Medical personnel performed CPR and applied an automated defibrillator and other forms of aid before Hamlin was taken off the field by ambulance; it was later reported that he had suffered cardiac arrest immediately after the tackle.
The incident resulted in some calls on social media for the removal of the CPR celebration, and today Electronic Arts confirmed that it's being cut. "EA Sports is taking steps to remove the celebration from Madden NFL 23 via an update in the coming days," a rep said in a statement emailed to PC Gamer. EA did not specify why the celebration is being removed, but the timing is impossible to overlook. A date for the update hasn't been announced.
This isn't the first time that Electronic Arts has removed controversial content from Madden NFL games. In 2020, for instance, it scrubbed Washington's
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