Posted
9:08 PM
by Gene
The other day we meant to post a contrast between that overrated unfunny zillionaire doughnut eater and John Madden.
This article says Madden earns $2.5 million a year from his video game, which if correct is reasonable, if anything, low. Jealous though we are of so many public figures for making money out of nothing we admire Madden as he and his EA team have delivered the goods for over two decades, and though we've never played his version of football we'd bet these days it's far more involving than the real thing. The one solace is though his announcing days are long over his game will long survive him.
P. S. at 12/12/2010 at 10:40 a. m. I know -- hasn't the zillionaire doughnut eater delivered the goods for over twenty years? To which we say: 1. Those goods have been shopworn for at least fifteen, by some accounts; 2. He has lots of little helpers in Korea,
whose work is also evidently getting worse; 3. John Madden has never implied his creation can save the world; and 4. All those jokes about
HIS BOSS point to
a line from THE MASTER: "Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation."
On that last point we do not exempt ourselves from this stern judgment, and our only defense is we are not zillionaires.