This blog is a collection of really cool things. At least, they will seem really cool if you're me. Or, quite possibly, if you're someone who is less cool than me. If you're more cool than me (likely), these things may not get you all that excited, I suppose. You know what... just forget it. Huh? What's that? You don't know if you're cooler than me? Um. I guess just read the things to the left and evaluate how cool you find them to be. Do they seem cool to you? Yes? You sure? Then I guess you're just not as cool as me. Sorry. Look... it's not that big of a deal, okay? No... please. Don't cry. Look, I do lame stuff also. Sometimes. Really not that much, but I mean it does happen... from time to time. I'm not really helping, am I? I think maybe I'll just leave. Take as much time as you need to recover.
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Tue
Jul
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I got in the mood to do some sports blogging tonight (been reading a ton of PFT and Deadspin lately to try to get my football fix during the offseason). Here’s what I came up with.
Don’t Forget: Brett Favre = Madden Cover Boy
An interesting nugget that’s been lost in the Brett Favre clusterfuck lately is that Mr. Favre himself, AKA the reason Ted Thompson can’t get a good sleep lately, is EA Sports’ Madden 2009 cover boy.
EA announced that Favre would grace the cover back in the spring, and most people shrugged it off as something that was done to try to deflect talk of the Madden curse (and, to a lesser extent, to honor one of the game’s all-time greats… or at least one of the game’s all-time pretty-goods). After all, Favre is the first non-active player to be put on the cover. How could a non-active player suffer from the curse?
The Madden curse, of course, is clearly a myth… right? But it keeps cropping up. Vince Young, the 2008 cover boy, didn’t exactly have a season for the ages (unless you live in the Age of Pulled Quads or the Age of Bad Touchdown to Interception Ratios, both of which are apparently really nice this time of year). Players were starting to turn down the chance to be on the cover - players like LaDanian Tomlinson, who suffered the first major injury of his career and sat on the bench while his teammates upset the Colts and eventually lost to the Patriots in the playoffs (curse casualty?). EA needs cover athletes a lot more than players need EA. What’s EA to do if players start turning down the Madden cover? put an aging John Madden back on the cover? EA needs players to think the curse is a joke, so they took the easy road and put Favre on the cover.
Cut to all this Favre comeback nonsense. It starts to make you wonder if EA’s plan might be backfiring. Maybe there is a curse after all, and maybe it can affect players even after they retire.
And maybe, a Favre comeback will only tarnish his legacy even more than all this “will-he-or-won’t-he” garbage already has.
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Did I accomplish the “makes a story out of nothing but maybe makes you chuckle and at least its better than doing actual work” vibe of sports blogs? I don’t know. I might try this again some time. It was fun.
