Trip Hawkins, who is the original founder of EA and was the man behind the concept of the game (he convinced John Madden to come on board), has said that Antonick was not the person driving the game and that EA dropped him as a contract worker when the industry upgraded to 16-Bit consoles because the job required the skills of more advanced programmers.

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