{"id":3409,"date":"2012-04-26T10:11:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2012-04-26T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:11:26","slug":"megatron-jinxed-by-madden-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/26\/megatron-jinxed-by-madden-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Megatron Jinxed by Madden Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth, Rob and Eric (all division winners last year) got totally screwed yesterday when it was announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/7855439\/calvin-johnson-detroit-lions-wins-madden-13-cover-vote-carollina-panthers-cam-newton\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Johnson Wins Madden Vote<\/a>. It is a well established fact that once you&#8217;re on that cover, you get hurt, turn into a pussy or get caught fighting dogs. Just ask Peyton Hillis, last year&#8217;s cover &#8220;winner&#8221;.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Running back Peyton Hillis, then a member of the Cleveland Browns, won the fan vote last year, but was plagued by injuries and controversy in a hectic 2011 season. Hillis said before winning the &#8220;Madden NFL 12&#8221; cover that he wasn&#8217;t afraid of the curse, but after rushing for just 587 yards last season, Hillis said in December that he now believes in the cover jinx.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Megatron ownership across Leagues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nQFL\tTENQ (Seth)\t18\tL2<br \/>\nDeuce\tNOJOQ (Rob)\t17\tL2<br \/>\nThrice\tQUIMBY (Eric)\t17\tL2\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Madden Cover Jinx History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1999 Garrison Hearst &#8211; broken ankle<br \/>\n2000 Barry Sanders &#8211;  retired<br \/>\n2001 Eddie George &#8211; bobbled a pass that was intercepted in super bowl<br \/>\n2002 Daunte Culpepper &#8211; season ending knee injury<br \/>\n2003 Marshal Faulk &#8211; ankle injury<br \/>\n2004 Michael Vick &#8211; broken fibula<br \/>\n2005 Ray Lewis &#8211; no interception on season for first time in career<br \/>\n2006 Donovan McNabb &#8211; sports hernia<br \/>\n2007 Shaun Alexander &#8211; fractured foot<br \/>\n2008 Vince Young &#8211; went crazy, put on suicide watch, quit team<br \/>\n2009 Brett Favre &#8211; career finally fizzled out<br \/>\n2010 Polamalu &#038; Fitzgerald &#8211; Polamalu played five games, Fitz made it thru regular season but couldnt play in playoffs due to rib injury<br \/>\n2011 Drew Brees &#8211; Lost to the lowly Seahawks in playoffs<br \/>\n2012 Peyton Hillis &#8211; barely played due to nagging injuries<br \/>\n2013 Calvin Johnson &#8211; ??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth, Rob and Eric (all division winners last year) got totally screwed yesterday when it was announced that Calvin Johnson Wins Madden Vote. It is a well established fact that once you&#8217;re on that cover, you get hurt, turn into a pussy or get caught fighting dogs. Just ask Peyton Hillis, last year&#8217;s cover &#8220;winner&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21,19,20,22],"tags":[328,329],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-qfl-deuce","category-qfl-nation-news","category-qfl-prime","category-qfl-thrice","tag-madden-jinx","tag-megatron"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}