Madden CURSE? How gullible ARE people?

[Dark Jaguar]

http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/maddencurse.asp

So apparently this has been making the rounds. It's all good amusement, but more than a few gaming sites seem to be accepting it in that wishy washy "ya never know, better not risk it" way, as though there's any reason at all to think there IS a risk. More than that, there's a frickin' petition. The game company should have responded by saying "what are you people stupid?", but of course that would alienate some of their potential audience so they sorta said it in a politically correct style.

Seriously, I thought we'd evolved past this sort of superstitious thinking. Let's all start avoiding step ladders again too! Or, maybe it's just sports fan mentality, the same sort that convinces people that their cheers (from the couch) literally have an effect on the success or failure of "their team".

[Bo Jackson]

You didn't know about this before? Yeah, it's pretty dumb. I mean, cover athletes for Madden have been injured each and every time, but that proves nothing.

[A Black Falcon]

I think it's more about the fact that football is an injury-heavy sport which causes a huge number of injuries more than anything else... it is true that the people on the Madden boxes have had trouble. But for football players, is that really so rare?

Oh yes, the Snopes article is missing one thing: the first box with a person on it was in 1999, not 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_curse

Oh yes... :D
http://kotaku.com/gaming/nfl/chargers-fa...252787.php

[Great Rumbler]

I blame the Free Masons.

[Bo Jackson]

That would be pretty great if their entire secret deal was that they inflicted injury upon Madden cover athletes.

[Bo Jackson]

As an amazing baseball and football player, i can tell you that sports are filled with superstitions. Jordon used to wear his old stinky college uniform under his regular one, for example. for good luck.

[A Black Falcon]

I blame the Free Masons.

But the movie "National Treasure" said that the Freemasons were goodguys! I don't know what to believe anymore...

[Dark Jaguar]

The DaVinci Code says a guy who's been shot has enough blood and time to write a novel out but for some reason wants to do so in the most convoluted way possible, as if keeping it a secret matters to a dead person.

Jumanji taught me that sometimes the board games are dangerous indeed.

I think maybe movies are not the best place to learn.... anything, ever.

[EdenMaster]

Yeah, I'm surprised you never heard of the curse, I don't even PLAY that much Madden and I know that :D.

It really is all rubbish, though.

[Dark Jaguar]

Well how would I have found out? I don't follow sports ya know. It took some game sites pointing out its existance.

[Weltall]

I keep praying Tom Brady ends up on the cover of a Madden game.

Every year until he retires.

[A Black Falcon]

I think maybe movies are not the best place to learn.... anything, ever.

Really? Huh... :D

[Trogdor]

I bet we never evolve past being superstitious no matter how many terrahertz our future hovering toasters and teleportation portals have, I bet the technicians of the future still paint good luck symbols and kiss their rosaries as they send robot armies off to fight the battles of the future. I bet little kids still don't step on cracks for fear of breaking their back, and I bet their parents still send chain emails on their holographic computers to each other. For some reason our heads are wired up to be really f'ing superstitious. Every youtube video you look at, you see "DONT READ THIS ok now that youve read this paste this on 10 other videos and someone on msn messeneger will tell you they love you or else youll DIE"

[Dark Jaguar]

Not everyone is superstitiuos, just most. The key is skeptical inquiry of all that stuff you thought.

The transhumanist movement (which isn't really anything all that deep so much as that fantasy everyone has of being a robot) might take care of that weakness. Then, we simply await the eventual extinction of the weak bags of mostly water.