The Madden Cover Curse: Proving It’s Fake
GoodGameBro writes, "In 2000, for their upcoming Madden NFL 2001 release, EA Sports made the then-controversial choice to put a specific player on the cover of the game, as opposed to the eponymous John Madden.
Since this fateful decision, there has been a meme surrounding the release of each successive edition of Madden, that of the dreaded “cover curse.”
The idea is that, since the Madden NFL 2001 cover featuring Eddie George, the player featured on the cover would struggle to match his accomplishments from the previous season. Now that Richard Sherman has been named to the cover of Madden NFL 15, I decided to take a look at the results from the previous 14 editions of the game to discern whether or not this is the case."
