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Posted by zarathustra on Oct-08-2003 15:19:

EA Sports Curse

I read an article in a local publication which brought up an interesting subject: The EA Sports curse.

It seems that whenever a player gets on a the cover of any EA Sports game such as NHL, Madden, etc. they either have a shitty year or their team does.

For example look at the recent NHL covers:

2001 Owen Nolan - Not a great season
2002 Mario Lemieux - Injured most of the year and his team was one of the worst in the league
2003 Jarome Iginla - Not a bad season but Calgary didn't do anything
2004 Dany Heatly - The year hasn't even started yet and, well...

Thoughts?

Posted by mactheknife on Oct-09-2003 03:18:

the curse in madden games seems to be coming to an end....if the rams would give faulk the ball he'd still be great.

moss is having a great year.

eddie george still sucks.

then again, mike vick did have his leg snapped...

Posted by OLi_A on Oct-10-2003 05:17:

ben tune appeared on the cover of rugby 2001
ever since then he was found to have failed a drug test and has had both his knees operated on
but that was a year later

Posted by razmataz on Oct-10-2003 18:44:

David Beckham appeared on the cover of Fifa 98...
... we all know what happened that summer but it can be said that he came back with a vengeance later that year to win a treble of honours with Man U next summer...

Posted by biznology on Oct-11-2003 04:52:

ok, heatley is perhaps in another league, tho he seems to have support- but what about royalties - what are the figures that the players see from the games|?

Posted by zarathustra on Oct-11-2003 16:10:

The royalties probably to to the various Player's Associations for the rights to use the names, etc. I suppose the players would then maybe get a free copy of the game . Then their is the prestige of getting your face on the cover!!!

A couple more examples of the curse:

NHL 99 Eric Lindros - Collapsed lung in the playoffs
Triple Play 2001 Mike Piazza - Where did he go?
Triple Play 2002 Miguel Tejada Randy Johnson - Both had bad seasons
Madden 2002 Dante Culpepper - Shitty year and Vikings sucked
Madden 2003 Marshal Faulk - The Rams lost Warner and had an awful season