Keeping Up with the News
A couple of recent articles caught our attention today, one of them discussing the Madden Curse – what happens when you find yourself featured on the cover of the latest edition of Electronic Arts Madden Football:
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To Grace Or Not to Grace The Cover: Is Madden Curse For Real?
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Would you trust your brain or your money with this man?
The Madden Football series has been one of the most influential sporting games in the history of video games. But does this video game juggernaut contain some type of voodoo magic?
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For years now, the question has been asked: Is the cover athlete for Madden Football doomed to be cursed?
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Many people are skeptical. Football is a contact sport, after all. Injuries happen all the time. Its not odd to see a superstar miss time some time due to an injury, especially late in the season if a team has no chance of making the playoffs or already has a spot locked up.
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Read the rest of the article – click HERE.
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- MARCH 24, 2010
It’s the National Frugal League
An ‘Uncapped’ Year Was Supposed to Make NFL Players Rich — But It May Make Them Poorer
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Orlando, Fla.
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This was supposed to be the year the socialists who run the National Football League finally got a taste of the free market.
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Thanks to a poison pill in the league’s expiring labor agreement with the players, the richest teams in America’s richest pro-sports league would, for the first time in 15 years, finally be allowed—if not required—to throw irresponsibly large sums of scratch at the sport’s top free agents, just like their colleagues in baseball always do. Somewhere, Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek were cracking beers and settling in for the show. But here’s the strange thing: It never happened.
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So far, the NFL’s free-agent season hasn’t become the discombobulated cash volcano everyone was hoping for. The handful of signings, like the six-year, $91.5 million deal the Chicago Bears gave defensive end Julius Peppers or the reported $5.1 million the New York Jets spent for running back LaDainian Tomlinson, weren’t markedly different from deals that might have been struck the season before.
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Read the rest of the article – click HERE.
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Dave Pear
March 25th, 2010 at 6:51 am #
John Madden was paid $130,000,000 from the “Madden video” games in which retired players images were stolen and scrambled!
Retired players have been waiting for you to have the courage to speak up on this swindle. After all, it was OUR images that were stolen and you profited handsomely.
John, do you think it is fair that YOU receive $130,000,000 for this crime and over 2,000 retired players were paid ZERO?
Thank goodness a court of law (Federal Court) forced the marketing arm of the NFLPA Leadership to pay retired players a portion of the debt that was “outrageous and grossly fraudulent with an evil motive.”
Why are you now speechless, John?
So Roger Goodell has appointed you to another job of making the game safer by protecting players brains when they run into each other on the football field and quack doctors like Dr. “NO” Ira Casson can make the assertion that these head injuries do not cause brain damage and early onset dementia.
John, nobody is going to believe you and besides, when the heat get hot in the kitchen, you’ll run away on vacation again (like you did in the “Madden Video” scandal).
Regards,
Dave & Heidi Pear