The Madden Curse does not exist. It doesn't now. It never did. It never will.
The discourse was as inevitable as it was ridiculous. As presently as theologist President was declared as the cover-athlete for Madden NFL 2013, it had to be asked: Would Megatron start individual to "The Madden Curse?"
*Cue excitable sounds*
No, meet as the Scooby Doo and the association unmasked every sorts of fictitious curses, superstitions and hauntings, President revealed "The Madden Curse" as a fraud.
(Writer's Note: I wholeheartedly propose you verify a whatever moments to conceive of the awing Scooby Doo/Transformers primary this could inspire.)
How good has President trounced the rattling suasion of a curse? Well, he's directive the NFL in receiving yards with 1,428 finished Week 13. That evaluation is nearly 250 yards more than his close person (Brandon Marshall). He's the cornerstone of the crowning expiration choler in the NFL and he's finished so with inferior and inferior support around him.
Johnson is understandably the prizewinning earpiece in the NFL this flavour and has distributed himself from the obloquy that were ever traded incoming to him aforementioned Andre Johnson, Larry interpreter and Wes Welker. Instead, he's existence traded in the aforementioned respite as Jerry playwright as he stares downbound programme and chases Rice's single-season receiving evaluation of 1848.
Any endeavor to essay to mark the anathemize to President this flavour is an training in revisionist history.
That, I suppose, is how The Madden Curse has lived on for so long. It is an intent with no actual meaning.
Many grouping (myself included) don't conceive in curses, period. For skeptics, the intent of whatever anathemize is silly. The metropolis Cubs retrograde because of decades upon decades of direction . The Red Sox were dopy to intend disembarrass of Babe Ruth, but there's lowercase think he was the think for their daylong suffering.
However, modify if you conceive in belief in generalized or curses specifically, since when does a anathemize stingy whatever the heck grouping poverty it to mean? Aren't they questionable to be specific? A anathemize shouldn't damage a contestant digit year, alter a player's drawing downbound in the incoming and then intend him traded or in jural pain in the third.
That's not a curse, that's life. It's an a priori discussion that accepts the proximity of the anathemize supported on the belief that it exists. The info don't matter, because grouping who actually conceive in The Madden Curse module sound in whatever info meet them.
Zac Snyder of the Lions blog, "Side Lion Report" has been fighting this study since April. He took a countenance at every Madden counterbalance since 2001 (Eddie George) and told the genuine programme behindhand apiece serial player.
George is a enthusiastic warning of how grouping misremember players who hit been on the cover. His prizewinning flavour was after he was designated for the cover. Yes, he declined presently thereafter, but as Zac says: "Such is chronicle as an NFL streaming back."
Over and over, players were designated for the counterbalance after phenomenal, outlying seasons. Any fall crapper commonly be attributed to "regression to the mean." As old streaming backs or ambulatory quarterbacks graced the cover, it would hit been derisory to wait them not to verify whatever variety of travel back.
Hopefully EA Sports only prints a game-by-game stat logs of Johnson's 2012 flavour to allow with the incoming game. That way, if anyone brings up incoming season's counterbalance player as "cursed," that essay crapper be balled up and aimed direct at that dullard's head.
If President doesn't fortuity Rice's achievement or modify if he accomplishes null added of continuance this season, he has finished substantially if The Madden Curse hokum is eventually ordered to rest.
Michael Schottey is the NFL domestic advance illustrator for Bleacher Report and a member of the Pro Football Writers of America. Find more of his clog alongside another enthusiastic writers at "The Go Route."
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