Keep Michael Vick off the cover of Madden '12

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For those who don't know what the Madden curse is, it is believed the player on the cover will have a horrible season or be injured.

Here is the stats from the cover selections :
2010, Troy Polamalu/Larry Fitzgerald: Polamalu only played five games due to knee injuries, Steelers missed playoffs; Fitzgerald wasn’t affected much (97 receptions, 1,092 yards, 13 TD, Pro Bowl).
2009, Brett Favre: Feuded with Packers, traded to Jets, horrible down the stretch (lost 4 of last 5).
2008, Vince Young: Missed 1 game with quad injury; led Titans to first playoff appearance in four years.
2007, Shaun Alexander: Fractured foot, missed six games; fewer yards and TDs in '06 AND '07 than in '04 OR '05.
2006, Donovan McNabb: Sports hernia in first game, missed seven games; feuded with Terrell Owens all year; had been to five straight Pro Bowls, hasn't been since.
2005, Ray Lewis: Broke wrist, missed one game; first season without interception; missed 10 games next year with thigh injury.
2004, Michael Vick: Fractured fibula one day after video game was released, missed 11 games; Pro Bowl next 2 seasons; obvious issues since then.
2003, Marshall Faulk: Ankle injury, missed two games, never rushed for 1,000 yards again.
2002, Daunte Culpepper: 4-7 record before season-ending knee injury.
2001, Eddie George: Career season, but fumbled in playoffs as top-seeded Titans lost first game to Ravens.
2000, Barry Sanders: Retired one week before training camp.

Last year Brees was the cover guy. He finshed his SB followup without a loss of time injury and pretty muc had the same stats as the year before, except for interceptions. The Saints made it to the playoffs, but injuries all season really hurt them. His stats the cover year and and the year before:
G CMP ATT PCT YDS AVG TD LNG INT FUM RAT
2009 NO 15 363 514 70.6 4388 8.5 34 75 11 9 109.6
2010 NO 16 448 658 68.1 4620 7.0 33 80 22 9 90.9


I'd say Fitzgerald and Brees pretty much proved the curse doesn't exist.

As for the Vick situation, while I am ana animal lover, I think that what he did was wrong. But it seems to me that more people get up in arms over animal violence the the violence commited against people.

I tried to find it on the internet but was unable to, but I remember years ago a mother who was from California, I believe, being killed by a cougar. It turned out the place she was jogging was where this cougar had her kittens. The cougar was killed by fish and game. Fund raisers were held for the mother, who left behind 2 kids and for the care of the kittens. I remember, of all people, Howard Stern being outraged that the kittens recieved over a million dollars and the kids got something like 100,000 or so. Something is wrong when orphaned animals can raise more then orphaned humans!

I think Vick made a HUGE mistake, but served his time. He was sentanced to 23 months. Some drunk drivers who have killed someone get less jail time then Vick got for dogfighting. The average sentance for vehicular manslaughter. which is the charge for a drunk driver when he kills someone, in the US is 1-3 years ( although some states it is more) according to this site:
http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com...nslaughter.htm. Something is VERY wrong in that!