It will be removed in the future. Wash. League officials said it was primarily a case of one arm of the NFL being unaware of what the other was doing. George Young, the league vice president who wrote the letter banning the throat slash, said the game was manufactured last summer. The ban was announced Nov. 23. The NFL's insignia, as well as that of Players Inc., the marketing arm of the NFL Players Association, appear on the game's box.
Manufacturers pay to use team names and player likenesses.
Obviously, when you're in a big corporation like this, it's hard to tie up all the loose strings. You have to keep working at it. We've got 250 people in the office and not everyone knows what everyone else is doing. Some players called the league hypocritical for marketing the computer game. But they're willing to make money off it.