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Vince Young hopes to avoid 'Madden curse'
By Jim Wyatt
Gannett News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn. "Vince Young has survived the so-called "SI cover jinx"; three times to be exact.
Can he escape the "Madden curse?" It looks like everyone will get a chance to find out this fall.
According to his agent, the Tennessee ans quarterback has been told he'll appear on the cover of "Madden '08," the popular football video game. However, whether it's a coincidence or a curse, recently players have suffered from injury problems during the year they appeared on the cover.
Young's agent, Major Adams, said they didn't believe in jinxes.
"People said when they put Vince on the cover of Sports Illustrated, it was going to jinx him in the Rose Bowl game, and (Texas) won the national championship," Adams said. "We don't believe in stuff like that."
Officials from EA Sports wouldn't confirm Young is this year's choice for the cover, which was to be announced tonight on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" which airs at 11 p.m. on ABC.
Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander was on the cover of "Madden '07," and he broke a bone in his left foot early in the season. The past four cover players have been injured, including Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who suffered a sports hernia the season he was on the cover of "Madden '06." Before that, it was Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis (injured wrist) and Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, who suffered a broken leg during an exhibition game in 2003 when he was on the cover.
"Being on the cover of Madden is such a big honor nowadays; no one ever turns us down because of (the so-called curse), that's for sure," said Chris Erb, director of marketing for EA Sports.
There has been plenty of speculation about who might be on this year's cover, with reigning NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson and Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning considered favorites.
Young was the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2006, when he guided the ans to six straight wins at the end of the season.
"Everyone wants to be the Madden guy," Erb said. "The issue is the guys that have been on the cover tend to be the guys that are around the football more often, and football is a rough sport. We've had a string of unfortunate incidents, I guess you could say ... but we really don't believe in the jinx."
Guess he's done for the year
Last edited by mardigan; 04-17-2007 at 09:46 AM.
Hope his speed rating is higher on this years game
And Chargers fans around the world rejoiced.
< Colts fans too.
Oh well, it was nice knowing you Vince.
Don't do it Vinceeeeeeee
Too late, Vince's hand has grown grotesquely large.
Hopefully the jinx comes into play early in the season. I don't want to hear people drooling over this guy all season long. Annoying as to hear so much praise for an A+ athlete .... but a C+ QB
NOOOOOOO Vince!!!
Oh well, at least they didn't let him do that while he was in college.
I'm sure everyone would much rather drool over the likes of Jon Kitna.
LOL good try! But I'm no Kitna fan, nor much of a Lion fan.
Then who?
I'm a Chiefs and Colts fan.
So you guys can piss on Damon Huard if you'd like! LOL
Huard is solid, but from what Ive heard he wont even be the starter next year, Croyle will. If Huard had played in the Playoffs last year they might have won
Sweet!
You forget to mention he's also an A+++ winner, which is what matters most for a QB.
vince Young's an All Pro as a rook, and he beat the best team ever in college, and then he defied logic and turned into the ans leader, so I think he can beat the curse
Damnit! I was hoping the Colts would win the SB last year so that maybe Manning could be on the cover this year. Oh well, at least we enjoyed at least one good season from Young last year. Bye bye Vince
On PTI Kornheisser suggested that he should just take the next year off
its not a curse its a cuss
and Vince Young will run all over that nonsense
im happy VY made the cover, didnt think it was gonna happen this early...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/18175081
LaDainian Tomlinson Turns Down Madden:
If you believe everything you read, you would have thought that San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson was just lucky enough not to get the Madden cover endorsement. Electronic Arts officially announced last night that Tennessee ans quarterback Vince Young would grace the cover of the next version of the jinxed popular video game. "Vince was the guy all along," EA's director of marketing Chris Erb told the San Diego Union-Tribune today.
Except that's not exactly the case. Multiple industry sources have told me that Tomlinson, in fact, was asked of his interest, was presented with an offer, and told Electronic Arts he was not interested. Tomlinson's turning down of Electronic Arts, we're told, doesn't have much to do with the highly-publicized curse, which has been attributed to the recent misfortune of Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb and Shaun Alexander. It has more to do with the fact that the people at Electronic Arts know that, for many, their cover is seen as the "Wheaties box endorsement" -- in that athletes are usually so honored they are willing to do it for less than market value. Tomlinson wasn't.
The deal usually pays the cover athlete $100,000 to $200,000 and requires multiple appearances to pump up the game. Since the Madden game sort of sells itself, the athlete on the cover doesn't really matter that much, but expect more NFL stars to turn down the cover in the future, not because of the curse, but because the price is just too low.
A Tomlinson fan named Nick Cupolo actually started Saveltfrommadden.com, hoping that one of his favorite players didn't take the endorsement deal for fear he'd fall victim to the curse. Cupolo wrote on his online pe ion, "With everyone's help, I plan to forward this pe ion to Electronic Arts to try and convince them to choose another candidate for the cover of Madden NFL 08." But make no mistake, in the end, it was Tomlinson who made the decision.
yep, and b/c of the curse people are going to see just how good he isn't.
better than Lienart
You didn't think this deserved its own thread like me?
Mods, delete mine if you are bored.
not a chance.
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