The Madden NFL Curse..

something strange has been happening in the nfl a

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is said that when a player appears on the cover of Madden his career is instantly ruined and a young Garrison Hearst did not know it yet but he would be the first victim on September 6, 1998. the 49ers they faced the new york jets in an overtime thriller the score is tied 30-30 whoever scores next wins the game the 49ers break and pass the ball to garrison hurst into his own end zone what many thought would be A typical running play turned into one of the greatest plays in NFL history.

Garrison took that snap and ran the ball 96 yards for a touchdown ending the game at that very moment and with that play, Garrison solidified himself as a star in the NFL and became Madden's first cover athlete, but only four months Then it happened that the 49ers were playing the Falcons in the playoffs fighting for a shot at the Super Bowl. It was the first play of the game in which the 49ers broke and gave him the ball. Garrison and the world were ready to see another historic moment and they had a historic moment, but I don't think it was what people expected.

Garrison attempted to back out of a tackle and his cleat got caught in the turf, causing his leg to break. Garrison left. Throughout the recovery process, but things were never the same after surgery, Garrison had circulation problems that cut off the blood supply to his leg and caused the talus bone in his foot to die, leaving him officially forced to retire and become the first victim of the

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of madness. and I know you're thinking that's just an example, what about the other 22 cover athletes? Did the curse affect them? Surely this was just a coincidence. That's what the NFL thought until the following year, going into 1999, Madden needed a new cover athlete and at that time, Barry Sanders was dominating the league during the '90s.

He put up some of the best numbers in NFL history. . He ran for about 1,500 yards each season. They called him one of the best runners of all time. Barry was blessed with the

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2000 cover, but that's when the unexpected happened at the peak of his career, barry just disappeared, he didn't answer any phone calls, he didn't respond to coaches or teammates, no one knew what was happening until an ominous farewell letter appeared on the news saying nothing more than that my desire to get out of the game is greater than my desire to stay in it, marking the end of his legendary career.

This literally made no sense, who just retires out of nowhere at the peak of his career the moment this goes crazy. The curse wasn't a well-known topic, it's not something people were speculating about, but looking back now it's almost as if Barry had seen what happened to Garrison Hurst the year before and decided to drop it all before he could. something terrible would happen. Madden was forced to do so. to change the cover athlete from him to Dorsey Lovins, who ended up suffering a nagging injury, so it seemed like Barry might have been right, but how much truth is there in this?

Is this curse real or was Barry just crazy? Well, it looks like Barry made the right decision. let me show you why 2002 dante culpepper 2003 marshall falk 2004 michael vick 2005 ray lewis 2006 donovan mcnabb 2007 sean alexander each of those players was

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's cover athlete and that same year each of them suffered injuries that almost ended their careers these guys were all at the peak of their careers and the worst possible thing happened to each of them at this point, the Madden curse started to dominate the news, everyone is talking about this Madden curse and now Michael Vick, well, he showed up on the cover of Madden in 2004 and quickly suffered. a broken leg missed the first 11 games of the season vince young's quad injury or the madden curse i think it's a curse wilbur obj won't prevent the madden curse this became a topic that everyone was talking about, including players and fans, so when the 08 cover came out it was in development the fans took it into their own hands to try and stop this curse forever the moment ea offered the 08 madden cover job to ladainian tomlinson was coming off a record breaking season MVP was already one of the best running backs in league history, so it made sense that EA was offering Ladainian two hundred thousand dollars just to appear in an in-game photo, but was it worth it?

Charger fans didn't believe it, so a fan named Nick Couplow was convinced the curse was real and didn't think about it. He didn't want his favorite player to become a victim so he started an online petition saying that with everyone's help I plan to forward this petition to EA to try to convince them to choose another candidate for the Madden cover and this petition caused a lot of commotion. online and in the NFL, which led him to consult with his manager and ultimately deciding that it would be best for his career not to risk anything. Imagine turning down an opportunity like this, being on the cover of Madden is something every NFL pro dreams of, but with the The world began to see the curse that began to change.

That's how real the Madden curse is, man, and this is where people and professionals started believing in it, but not everyone was convinced yet and Madden games sell themselves no matter who's on the cover. so ea didn't really care and they chose vince young, but what's really interesting about vince young is how he decided to handle this curse. He did an interview with jimmy kimmel to talk about the season and the madden cover and jimmy asked him about The Curse, I mean he's scaring everyone. Vince was worried about that, well clearly he wasn't too worried because he decided to make fun of the curse in front of the entire world.

You know, there is a curse associated with this game and every year the kids say I am. I don't worry about it and then every year something seems to happen. Well, I didn't pray about that and we're going to keep trying to get to the playoffs and try to get to the Super Bowl, we'll see what happens, yeah, but. If something happens, God forbid, will you blame the game for this? No, you know, I definitely won't do that, but you know not at all, okay, I'll do it, I don't know if it was a good idea, Vince right after this happened, damn it. went to work vince had the slowest start he's ever had to a season and just a few weeks later suffered a devastating quadriceps injury vince thought it was just a coincidence and it took him a few weeks to recover and he was ready to go but his first game When Vince got hurt again the Titans knew something was up and didn't want to take any more chances that year so they benched Vince and he went from starter to backup quarterback and that's how he played the rest . of the season, damn two injuries, losing your spot on the roster, it can't get any worse, well, after a year of being on the sidelines, the titans decided to give him one more chance to redeem himself for next season, Vince was the quarterback title field. once again and was ready to prove that this curse is nothing more than nonsense playing in the first game of the season against the jaguars vince got off to a good start the titans were up 17-10 things were actually going his way but one play changed everything late in the third quarter jaguar linebacker dale smith collided with vince's left leg sending vince to the ground with a knee injury.

He was only supposed to be out two to three weeks, but coach Jeff Fisher decided to bring in a new quarterback for the next year and a half. Carrie Collins took over but in 2009 the Titans began the zero-and-six season with Carrie. collins then vince got a call that he had another chance and as soon as he hung up the phone he went to work and came back. The Titans won 8 of 10 games leading them to an 8-8 record. It wasn't great but things at least looked bright for Vince until the next season, the Titans started that year with four and five and in week 11.

It happened again during a game against the Redskins Vince suffered a torn flexor tendon. of his throwing hand, he went to the locker room, had his hand evaluated, had his hand taped, and then returned to the field to play, but coach Jeff Fisher said no, he got injured too often. Then Vince threw his uniform and his padding into the crowd and stormed out. He knew this was the beginning of the end of his career. He was done for most of the season and Vince never really recovered from this. He went from throwing for 2,500 yards in one season. with the titans to 866 with the eagles, the man threw four touchdowns and nine interceptions in six games, so since no team wanted him, he retired from the nfl just a couple of years later and just like that, vince became another victim of the crazy curse on this Point 9 out of 10 cover athletes have had their career ruined, but that was years ago.

You know, it could still just be a coincidence. What about the present? Well, from 2010 to 2018 it kept happening, careers and lives were ruined. An injury to Troy. polamalu, the worst season of draw brees and peyton helles' careers, injuries and scandals that came out of nowhere until adrian peterson odell beckham jr at the top of the league, then boom injuries and a team change that left him trapped until Today Rob Gronkowski was the face of the lead, he covered himself and the curse hit him harder than any defensive player. Injury after injury forced him to watch the Super Bowl from the sidelines and eventually forced him to retire, the curse struck again and again, but if you're still not convinced there is one.

The player who was affected more by this curse than anyone else in 2018, Antonio Brown, was having an incredible year, catching 104 passes for 1,300 yards and 15 touchdowns and was already doing this for a record number of seasons in a row, so it's only fair , lady. He made him the cover athlete, but even though he was great all season, when it got to the last week of the year, things got weird. Antonio began causing drama in the locker room and a heated argument between him and Ben Roethlisberger led to Antonio being benched and blamed by his teammates. The $68 million contract went to his head, but others sensed something else was going on and after appearing on the cover of Madden 19, Antonio began missing practices and demanded to be traded that offseason. shortly after Antonio was traded to the Raiders and more eyes were on. him than ever, but what's different with Antonio's situation is that you could actually see the curse take over him upon arriving at training camp.

Antonio was diagnosed with the most random health problem possible for someone in his shoes after undergoing cryotherapy treatment, his feet attracted unusual frostbite that didn't really make sense, but when you look at the details of a Madden game, ironically, the EA game runs on a software engine called freeze, it's like this curse was shown to the world after this happened, you could tell the pressure of superstition was on antonio's mind at all times and during that off season Things got even weirder, it's common for the NFL to make adjustments to the uniform rules, and at the start of the next season, they banned players from wearing certain helmets featured on Madden covers, one of which was a favorite of antonio so this took things to the top random injuries the nfl put up bans antonio saw these weird things happening like signs from above so he freaked out and made headlines saying he would retire from football if he wasn't allowed wearing his helmet at the time no one understood why this helmet meant so much to him, but it was because he felt very comfortable wearing it and switching to something else would risk making mistakes on the field and with the curse of madness in full effect , Antonio didn't want to do it. take more risks, there was more than football at stake his life was at stake that season but the nfl wouldn't budge, they denied antonio's request to wear his own helmet but he couldn't just sit back and accept that so antonio looked for any reason to stop playing that season, he started complaining about new teammates skipping practices and was fined tens of thousands of dollars for this, and if that wasn't enough, Antonio went on a rant on Twitter and Instagram attacking his team and to the league and being kicked out of the Raiders without playing a single game, but the damn thing knew Antonio was into it, so he followed him into his life outside of football if things only got worse for Antonio in the future, scandals arose. and his career was officially ruined.

Antonio was kicked out of the nfl and to this day no one can explain what was going on with them, the only explanation that makes sense is that the curse struck once again and the same goes for the most recent cover athlete, Lamar Jackson , became a face of Madden. after an mvp season in which he pitched over 3,000yards and ran for over a thousand but after Lamar covered up it was mentioned that he was facing more than just the curse of insanity, Lamar didn't suffer any serious injuries during the season but he got greedy and that's nothing to make light of just when you think he escaped the curse in the biggest game of his career, it so happened that Lamar had a bad hit that went over his head while chasing the ball, so he threw the ball out of bounds . and while he was making that boom, he was hit by two Bills defenders and lay down on the grass as if he had been struck by lightning.

Lamar was diagnosed with a concussion, so only time will tell how this affects his career in the future by watching this video. I'm not sure how real a curse could be, but 17 of the 23 athletes on the cover had their careers ruined or at least terribly effective. There's a 74 chance that if you do the madden cover your career won't survive, sounds crazy. I know I don't know if it's pressure or coincidence, but I think it's safe to say that this curse is very real and for the next Madden cover I wish you luck, but you know that some players don't need a curse to ruin their career.

They did it themselves, so to find out how, click on this video, whether they made hundreds of pounds or became criminals. There are a lot of different ways NFL players get carried away, so what are you doing? Man, click on it.