EDSBS MYTHBUSTERS: IS THERE AN NCAA CURSE?
Following last week’s announcement of Jared Zabransky as the NCAA cover boy for this year, we went to work trying to parse out the single thread cursing all NCAA cover dwellers. Unlike the famed Madden Curse, however, no single diabolical streak of malicious fortune unites all of the anointed NCAA cover guys. Believe us: we graphed it out.
Click here to the full NCAA CURSE CHART
The interesting, sure to land you bar legend status when you answer the question as the only guy who knows sports on your team for trivia night: the only player to appear on the cover of both the NCAA and Madden franchises? Shaun Alexander.
PS: the personal hygiene is just a guess. Desmond Howard misses it because we bet he’s still got pieces of lunch in the ’stache.
Filed under: Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, bizarro superman says you're welcome, flexible curses, sprained cerebrum by Orson Swindle
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Proof:
Joey Harrington (NFL flop)
Reggie Bush (payola scandal)
Carson Palmer (Bengals)
Comment by Gator KK — March 5, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
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Why no circle for cheesy tribal armband tattoos?
Comment by Dinknflicka — March 5, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
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We’ll confess–we left Bush off. Could plead ignorance here, but if current investigations continue, perhaps we were just being clairvoyant and anticipating the revocation of half of his entire college career pending the outcome of the whole New Era case.
Nah. We just got sloppy and left him off completely.
Comment by Orson Swindle — March 5, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
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All hail the defense!
They’re never on the shit end of this bogus curse. Where’s the love?
Comment by Mike aka Luke North "King of the Money Shot" — March 5, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
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Weinke doesn’t get the personal hygiene circle because his bed pan is tended to by orderly Jimmy T. Felhoeffer at the Shady Grove Assited Living Community in Beaufort, North Carolina.
Comment by Halleck T. — March 5, 2007 @ 5:28 pm
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ricky williams = real, life competent pro player
watchu smokin?
Comment by fife — March 5, 2007 @ 5:54 pm
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KK Gator
Don’t hate on the Bengals. Carson and Chad and TJ are going to Pac-10 offense to the super bowl this year.
Also, WTF? Zabransky? That guy is going to be a 5th round pick if he is lucky.
Comment by odell51 — March 5, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
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Ricky Williams is in the same territory as Ron Jeremy and John Holmes. That is some herioc company that he is associated with. But this graph is great. Either it is the greatest collection of Ven diagrams ever seen or a new management structure that the corporate world is sending TPS report about.
Comment by Anonymous IV — March 5, 2007 @ 6:57 pm
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I’m with you, Odell: I liked Zabransky when he was taking a shit on Oklahoma’s BCS birthday cake, but I don’t want to see that pasty mug on the cover of my favoritest football game. This is the first year in a long time it would have made perfect sense to select a Gator (Nelson, Leak. Did I mention Nelson?), and yet once again, EA delivers the nut-punch.
Comment by Gator KK — March 5, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
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what baout woodson?
Comment by DeacFan4 — March 5, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
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EDSBS would be nothing without MS Paint. Nothing.
I think they should have Ian Johnson proposing to his g/f. Think about it, it has potential for opening up the women’s market (if they make it a feature) and would make it easier for wives to buy their husbands the $50 divorce-in-a-box that is NCAA. I mean, I’m assuming women are complete retards, which is my usual M.O.
Comment by MCab — March 5, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
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MCab…thanks. Coffee met keyboard!
Comment by Aerobab — March 6, 2007 @ 8:36 am
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EDSBS Mythbusters eh? Orson, I’m guessing that you play the part of Jamie, complete with the crazy red facial hair apparatus.
And don’t forget Bill Walsh, the first “coverperson” for what has become EA’s NCAA Football. He has leukemia.
Comment by BDoc — March 6, 2007 @ 11:44 am