OT: Madden '12 Cover
Espn is doing a little bracket for the cover of madden '12. Lets help Jake Long upset sanchez in the 5 vs 12 machup. afterall a 12 seed almost always upsets a 5 seed. I would also love to see Suh upset rodgers in the 1 vs 16 machup.
March 21st, 2011 at 12:59 PM ^
umm how about not have you ever heard of the Madden curse.
March 21st, 2011 at 12:59 PM ^
I think you want Jake to lose this one. Sanchez should win the contest and break his foot in training camp. He can stay at Ms. Rexy Feets house and rehab.
No Lions on the cover please!! Bobby Lane's curse was bad enough.
Then let's put Bobby Layne on the cover and reverse the curse.
id love to see him upset rodgers and hell, go to the finals, nice sign of respect. but he can lose in the finals, and stay off the cover.
I stand corrected well in that case lets vote for sanchez to miss the next season. or rodgers either one is fine.
i was quite shocked how tom brady wasnt in the bracket.
not that i want him to b on the cover n get injured but just saying.
Are you fucking kidding me, he's seriously in this tournament? They couldn't find a player who, I don't know, actually started more than 3 games instead.
Why is Drew Brees in this tournament? He was on the cover last year.
Who else would you have suggested for the Broncos? He's one of the more recognizable people on the squad. He probably won't win, but they don't really have a whole lot of popular players.
Champ Bailey, and if he wasn't hurt last year I would also say Elvis Dumervil.
Champ Bailey would be a fine choice. Unfortunately, the general public probably recognizes Tebow more than Bailey or Dumervil, and of course that is what EASports is going for. If you put up a pictures of Champ Bailey and Tebow without a uniform or identifying clothing, i think more people are going to recognize Tebow than Bailey.
i agree.
drew brees, michael vick, and Larry Fit were all on the cover past years.
Because he reinvented himself blah blah, but Drew Brees and Larry Fit I don't get at all. What about Adrian Wilson for the Cards?
It's not the best player necessarily. It's the most marketable for the game. Come on, wise up.
I understand his market value, I just got sick of hearing all year about he's reinventing the quarterback position when he'd already done this before.
Brees was just on the cover last year, and Larry Fit has also already been on the cover. I also understand the marketing aspect. Then why is Jordan Gross in it instead of Steve Smith? Danny Woodhead is more marketable than Tom Brady? As for the other points, that's why I said "blah blah" after the Mike Vick crap.
I don't think Vick really "reinvented" himself, he kind of just went back to doing what he always did; run a lot, make some great plays, catch everyone off guard for a while, and get exposed in the playoffs
i agree.
drew brees, michael vick, and Larry Fit were all on the cover past years.
Do you not understand marketing? Tebow's jersey is the top seller in the NFL.
Originally, I was going to say that if Hines Ward wins I'm going to drown some kittens. However, after the Madden curse was wisely pointed out I'm pulling for him.
if seattle's 12th man wins does that mean all their fans get injured or does the stadium fracture somewhere?
Aaron Rodgers has to be the favorite to grace the Madden Cover. He just won the Super Bowl and gained celebrity status as a player, not as the player who has to replace a legend in Brett Favre. I would be shocked if any player other than Rodgers would grace the Madden Cover. I can see Mike Vick beating out Rodgers but Vick present a marketing risks because there are people who still resent Vick for the dogfighting thing.
As a Packer fan allow me to add my two cents on the idea of Rodgers being the favorite to grace the Madden cover: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Seconded, put favre on again, i want to see a little more curse fall on him
You people will just never let go, will you?
Who? Us or Brett Favre?
Favre can play as long as he wants if somebody will pay him. Amazes me that despite a SB title Green Bay fans won't let go of whatever it is they feel like they need to hang onto.
Betrayal never goes away. I don't see any statues to Benedict Arnold going up around the country
Ya know, he would have stayed if he wasn't pushed to a backup role. He just wanted to start, and who could blame him at that point in his career. I don't see why that is such a big deal. It's not like he shit on everyone on his way out. He just had issues with Ted Thompson.
He toyed with the franchise for years with his annual post-season waffling. Rodgers likely would have left had Favre been re-handed the starting job. I was fine-ish with him going to New York and finishing out there, but he wanted to punish the whole Packer franchise by returning as a Viking and getting his revenge. That isn't loyalty. Of course the last laugh was Green Bay's, and he went out in the most pathetic manner possible, on and off the field. Still doesn't change the fact that he happily wore the enemy's colors back to Lambeau. The fanbase was divided on the Favre issue before he went to Minny, then the hate was universal.
You're proving my point.
Don't lump me in with that rabble. I'm old enough to remember what Packer games were like to watch before Favre. The people who hate him the most are those who never saw Randy Wright throw a wobbly spiral that got picked off by the likes of Mike Singletary. I appreciate the 18 years of Packer Sundays (of which he never missed 1) that he made so entertaining.
How does that prove your point? Benedict Arnold was a pretty damn good and dedicated officer for the Continental Army before his treason. He left because he felt he was underappreciated by the top leadership. Seems similar to the Favre thing...and what is Arnold's legacy today? I grew up watching Favre work magic (and throw his fair share of interceptions, which people seem to forget), but the team is larger than the individual, and he showed his true colors by running to the enemy's side. And cheating on his wife. And saying publicly that his '09 Vikings team was the best he had ever played on (dissing the '96 World Champion Packers). He acted like a spoiled little brat over the whole fiasco, and as far as I'm concerned, he should go into the Hall of Fame as a Viking.
I'm going to say YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
the tourney is marketing BS.
BTW, Suh as a 16 is ridiculous. Look at some of the guys holding on to lower seeds. What a joke.
Interesting, maybe thats why they wont show voting results? Just rigging it anyway? Do you know for sure or just speculating?
Didnt brees break the curse
but the Saints promptly lost to a 7-9 Seattle Seahawks in the 1st round of the playoff though to be fair, the Seahawks shouldn't have hosted the playoff because their record are inferior to the Saints.
Nuff said
