The madden curse...

[sao123]

2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.


Though I'd like to see hines ward on the cover next year.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Not to mention the infamous pass that he missed that was returned for a touchdown in the playoffs.

Don't forget Barry Sanders in 2000 too!

 

[cw42]

hmm, what about the NBA Live series?

 

[Accipiter22]

Ray lewis had a year where everyone thought he had lost a step, he had fewer tackles, no picks, and I dn't know if he even had an FF

 

[spanky]

wasn't tomlinson on the cover of a game??

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Not to mention the infamous pass that he missed that was returned for a touchdown in the playoffs.

Don't forget Barry Sanders in 2000 too!

Barry Sanders was never on a Madden NFL cover

 

[hpkeeper]

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.


Though I'd like to see hines ward on the cover next year.

I was thinking about that the other day, I'm glad someone posted it up for everyone to see. Particularly with McNabb being on the cover. I also think it should be noteworthy that the only defensive player that you listed was also the only one that was un-injured.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Not to mention the infamous pass that he missed that was returned for a touchdown in the playoffs.

Don't forget Barry Sanders in 2000 too!

Barry Sanders was never on a Madden NFL cover

Yes, he was.

Edit: here is a small pic

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: spanky
wasn't tomlinson on the cover of a game??

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT MENTION L.T. AND MADDEN EVER AGAIN!!!

 

[hpkeeper]

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas

Originally posted by: spanky
wasn't tomlinson on the cover of a game??

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT MENTION L.T. AND MADDEN IN THE SAME SENTENCE EVER AGAIN!!!

he didn't... he said "cover of a game"

 

[jiwq]

so what's ea's criteria for madden cover players?

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Not to mention the infamous pass that he missed that was returned for a touchdown in the playoffs.

Don't forget Barry Sanders in 2000 too!

Barry Sanders was never on a Madden NFL cover

Yes, he was.

ESPN: Madden Curse Strikes again.

Chalk up another one to the "Madden curse," now that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has elected to have surgery to repair his sports hernia and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
.....
In 2003, cover athlete Michael Vick broke his leg just one day after the game hit the shelves. He played in only five games that season. The year before, St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk -- who had five straight 1,000-yard seasons -- injured his ankle after appearing on the cover. He ran for 953 yards that season and hasn't hit the 1,000-yard mark since. Gracing the cover of the 2002 Madden game meant a below-average year for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper. In the season he appeared on the cover, he threw fewer touchdown passes and had a worse quarterback rating than the season before.
.....
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and former Tennessee Titans running back [/b]Eddie George[/b] graced the cover for the 2005 and 2001 versions, respectively, and had successful seasons without injury. Before that, Madden himself was on every cover since the popular game's debut in 1989.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/c0/61/61_8.JPG">Proof that Sanders was not on the 2000 cover of
Madden.</a>

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Not to mention the infamous pass that he missed that was returned for a touchdown in the playoffs.

Don't forget Barry Sanders in 2000 too!

Barry Sanders was never on a Madden NFL cover

Yes, he was.

ESPN: Madden Curse Strikes again.

Chalk up another one to the "Madden curse," now that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has elected to have surgery to repair his sports hernia and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
.....
In 2003, cover athlete Michael Vick broke his leg just one day after the game hit the shelves. He played in only five games that season. The year before, St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk -- who had five straight 1,000-yard seasons -- injured his ankle after appearing on the cover. He ran for 953 yards that season and hasn't hit the 1,000-yard mark since. Gracing the cover of the 2002 Madden game meant a below-average year for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper. In the season he appeared on the cover, he threw fewer touchdown passes and had a worse quarterback rating than the season before.
.....
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and former Tennessee Titans running back [/b]Eddie George[/b] graced the cover for the 2005 and 2001 versions, respectively, and had successful seasons without injury. Before that, Madden himself was on every cover since the popular game's debut in 1989.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/c0/61/61_8.JPG">Proof that Sanders was not on the 2000 cover of
Madden.</a>

OMG...dude, your pic HAS Sanders on it! ROFLMFAO!

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas

Originally posted by: spanky
wasn't tomlinson on the cover of a game??

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT MENTION L.T. AND MADDEN EVER AGAIN!!!

he didn't... he said "cover of a game"

fixed 🙂

 

[sao123]

that little cheesy crap up in the corner dont count.
Barry was not the star of the cover... and who was that bear tackling him eh??? did he get hurt?

 

[hdeck]

so you say the madden curse = you get injured the following year? that may be your criteria. but for many others, george and lewis were affected by it with their subpar seasons.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: hdeck
so you say the madden curse = you get injured the following year? that may be your criteria. but for many others, george and lewis were affected by it with their subpar seasons.

I never said that...

Gracing the cover of the 2002 Madden game meant a below-average year for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper. In the season he appeared on the cover, he threw fewer touchdown passes and had a worse quarterback rating than the season before.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Not to mention the infamous pass that he missed that was returned for a touchdown in the playoffs.

Don't forget Barry Sanders in 2000 too!

Barry Sanders was never on a Madden NFL cover

Yes, he was.

ESPN: Madden Curse Strikes again.

Chalk up another one to the "Madden curse," now that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has elected to have surgery to repair his sports hernia and is expected to miss the rest of the season.
.....
In 2003, cover athlete Michael Vick broke his leg just one day after the game hit the shelves. He played in only five games that season. The year before, St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk -- who had five straight 1,000-yard seasons -- injured his ankle after appearing on the cover. He ran for 953 yards that season and hasn't hit the 1,000-yard mark since. Gracing the cover of the 2002 Madden game meant a below-average year for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper. In the season he appeared on the cover, he threw fewer touchdown passes and had a worse quarterback rating than the season before.
.....
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and former Tennessee Titans running back [/b]Eddie George[/b] graced the cover for the 2005 and 2001 versions, respectively, and had successful seasons without injury. Before that, Madden himself was on every cover since the popular game's debut in 1989.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/c0/61/61_8.JPG">Proof that Sanders was not on the 2000 cover of
Madden.</a>

OMG...dude, your pic HAS Sanders on it! ROFLMFAO!

hahahahahahaahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaaaa

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: sao123
2001 - Eddie George (unaffected)
2002 - Daunte Culpepper - Horrible year
2003 - Marshall Faulk - Ankle Injury / Horrible Year
2004 - Micheal Vick - Broken Leg / season over
2005 - Ray Lewis (unaffected)
2006 - Donnovan McNabb - hurnia surgery / season over


guess what...
Peyton Manning will be next.

I'd say it affected Eddie George. Just look at his yearly stats beginning in 2001. He went from 1500 yards rushing to only 939 from 2000 to 2001.

Eddie's stats.

Except that Madden 2001 came out in august of 2000 (NFL 2000 season), which is the year he had 1509 yard. He didnt decay until the 2001 season, which featured Daunte Culpepper on the cover of madden 2002.

Madden is a year ahead... Madden 06 came out this year... but were in the 2005 NFL season.

 

[SofaKing]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas

Originally posted by: spanky
wasn't tomlinson on the cover of a game??

PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT MENTION L.T. AND MADDEN IN THE SAME SENTENCE EVER AGAIN!!!

he didn't... he said "cover of a game"

yeah, he was never on a madden cover.. he was on the cover of NFL Gameday 2004