It wasn’t even a full half of football before Troy Polamalu was hit with the madden cover curse. I was just talking about this about 3 weeks ago.
oh yea forgot about that. booo
Madden Curse
Prior to 1999, every annual installment of the Madden NFL series primarily featured John Madden on its cover.[20] In 1999, Electronic Arts selected Garrison Hearst to appear on the cover, and has since featured one of the league’s top players on every annual installment.[21] Since then, certain players have experienced a decline in performance, usually due to an injury. For example, quarterback Michael Vick appeared on the cover of Madden NFL 2004, and suffered a leg injury that sidelined him for most of the 2003 season.[21] In a similar example, running back Shaun Alexander, then the league’s reigning Most Valuable Player, was featured on the cover of Madden NFL 2007, and sustained a foot injury that caused him to miss six starts.[22] As a result, Alexander’s rushing statistics were substantially less than those from the previous season.[22]
When asked about the “Madden Curse”, Chris Erb, the EA Sports director of marketing, commented, “I don’t know that we believe in the curse. The players don’t believe in the curse.”[23] Greg Pearson, a writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, commented that the string of injuries that Madden cover athletes experience can be attributed to the physical nature of football.[23] Alexander himself has asked, “Do you want to be hurt and on the cover, or just hurt?"[23] When Vince Young appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to officially announce that he would appear on the cover of Madden NFL 2008, he derided allegations of becoming the curse’s next victim, and stated, “I done prayed about it and we’re gonna go home and try to get to the playoffs and try to get to the Super Bowl. We’ll see what happens."[24][25] In 2007, GameSpot and CNBC reported that a large number of LaDainian Tomlinson’s fans, who believed in the Madden Curse, were strongly opposed to EA Sports’ initial decision to feature him on the 2008 cover, so much that a fan created SaveLTfromMadden.com to voice their disdain.[26][27][28] Tomlinson eventually declined the offer, but stated it was solely due to contract negotiations.[28] For the 2010 edition of Madden, two players, Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald, were featured on the cover for the first time in the history of the Madden franchise. On September 10, 2009, Polamalu left the Steelers opening game with a knee injury and did not return. As of 10:36pm ET, the severity of the injury is unknown.
its a shame all that time that madden spent on the cover, that it didnt end up in a heart attack
haha that pic reminds me of guffey
well hope troy is back soon!
when does guffey smile
mother. fucking. werd.
its football… a video game cover has nothing to do with it…rod woodson wasnt on a cover, tom brady wasnt on a cover, terrell davis wasnt on a cover… etc etc.
John madden should still have a heart attack,
the bubb approves
its the curse!!!
considering troy has been injured several times in his career… im doubting a video game cover is the cause
GameDay curse?