Madden Jinx To Be Imposed Later In The Year?

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http://www.profootballtalk.com/2009/...r-in-the-year/

Posted by Mike Florio on February 17, 2009, 7:18 a.m. EST

Typically, our decisions regarding the stories that we share in this space are driven by a fairly simple question — is it something that we’d be interested in if we were in the audience?

When it comes to stories about the depressingly stagnant Madden video game franchise and the ridiculous notion that a jinx applies to the person who appears on the cover of the game, we’re not interested.

But based upon the comments we’ve seen posted on the subject, plenty of you are.

And so we’ll make an exception to our normal rule and point out that SportsBusiness Journal reports (via Sporting News Today) that Electronic Arts might not announce http://today.sportingnews.com/sporti...nA2B&folio=CGI the player who will be on the cover of the 2010 edition of the game during the weekend of the 2009 draft.

Frankly, the EA folks would be wiser to devote some of the money spent on the cover athlete and the broader marketing efforts to improving the game. It’s simply not as good as it used to be, and more and more people are figuring that out.