The decision to make cutscenes unskippable is truly baffling. I mean skippable cutscenes are pretty standard in all gaming genres but should be even more expected in a sports games where it’s even more likely the player will just want to play the game. I can’t even discern the reason for it other than to frustrate players. If anything, it makes players less likely to spend money on VC because they don’t even want to create another player. It’s a really terrible design choice technically and financially.
They probably had contracts with reese's, mountain dew, etc saying they couldn't skip the cutscene that had product placement.
With that being said, they should at minimum make every single non-product placement cutscene skippable.