Something strange has been going on in the NFL.. a curse. It's said that when a player appears on the cover of Madden.. Their career is instantly ruined.. This is the Story of the Madden NFL Curse.
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all 4 madden cover holders from madden 17 to 20 are in the super bowl this year
What?
@@arcevox429 Gronk, AB, Brady, and Mahomes
True
@@plogrito7427 3 on one team
@@porsche1907 I mean it is true they're all in the super bowl
EA: Hey do you want to be on the cover of Madden? Player: So your asking me if I want a career ending injury
PLAYER: HELL YES
That would be me if I was an NFL player
😂
@@MaxyTanks14 really said I’ll be on a cover for a game and possibly end my entire career because of it with an injury that was caused by a curse 🤔 SIGN ME IN!!
Should have asked Tim Turbo from the broncos. Publicity should be the cover
The real issue that is highlighted by this is how short most NFL careers really are. And living up to expectations after having a personal best season is an incredibly hard thing to do both mentally and physically. Especially as teams learn to plan around and stop you and your body starts to take more hits as a hits since you are a much higher usage player.
100% most of these guys had already had multiple seasons at their peak or they were guys who had only one good season which a lot of guys do but like you said when every team keys on you it's hard to be the same.
This right here explains it for me
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Patrick Appeared on a cover he should've been cursed until he lost the super bowl
Actually, Erik Williams was the first victim. He was on the background of the cover during the 94 season. That season, he suffered season ending injuries in a car accident. Although he made a full recovery, he wasn't the same player after that, and it's believed by Michael Irvin to have cost him a Hall of Fame induction.
This was spooky. Football players praise after touchdowns. Dont mock the curse
@@Glenn-F-Rice So someone got into a car accident and you think some voodoo magic made it happen because you think he was "mocking a curse"...
Richard Sherman was affected too. His team lost a Super Bowl in a embarrassing way. He had an Achilles injury and was out the rest of the season and dropped in performance except 2019 but they did blow a 10 lead in the Super Bowl to chiefs
Also he was arrested for domestic altercation, he doesn't perform as he used to
Yep. Crazy.
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@@83dcardenas that doesn’t count age does play factor and mental health all happen years later.
Plot twist: The curse of Patrick Mahomes is Jackson Mahomes.
Lmfaooooooo
Shut up
Patrick Mahomes lost to a 43 year old who was in his first year in a system. QBs in their first year different system usually struggle.
They can't just change the 2000 cove that's bs
Didn't like Calvin Johnson get to be on the cover again vince young bs
The Antonio Brown segment is comedy gold 🤣🤣🤣
Yah I'm pretty sure AB was to dumb to even know about the curse. He just went full looney toon in that time period.
I think we watched different videos lmao
I’m pretty sure he got cte, it can drastically change your personality
AB’s career only got even worse after this video was uploaded lol
Pretty sure AB changes right after Pittsburgh gave him that big contract. He arrives at training camp in a Bentley Limo dressed like he’s attending a royal wedding. CTE is a very good possibility but the $ came well before and the change for the worse started then
Honestly the Antonio Brown situation as a Steelers fan I think the curse only coated what was already wrong. The real curse started when Vontez Burfict slammed AB with his shoulder pad in the wildcard matchup om January 2016. After that he just wasn't the same. Didn't really smile, laugh, talk to ben about routes and touchdowns plus throwing Gatorade jugs and throwing tempers over nothing. He was already cursed before he was on the cover of madden XD
"Who just retires out of nowhere at the peak of his career" Andrew Luck: hi, hello
Calvin Johnson, Terrelle Davis, Jim Brown
thats where i left the vid loll too much reaching
@@tombstonejones9581 Terrell Davis got injured
*Cough* *Cough* Luke Kuechly
Did you not know what happened to Andrew luck he was playing games with pain and he didn’t want to keep on doing that so he retired
Dude I got the shivers when the cracking sound happend
same
Bro same it’s scary
Same
You don't wish it on your worst enemies
I really don’t know much about football but my theory is that the players who make it on the cover are the ones who have already put a lot of stress on their body to get to where they are and probably continue the habit of over working themselves in both practices and in games to maintain their stats leading to a greater injury risk. Also the opposing team might come after them harder than anyone else knowing that they pose the biggest risk of scoring. The nfl already has a high injury percentage even compared to other sports so I just think it’s possible that the ones on the covers the players striving to be the best are seeing the worst of these injuries.
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this may be true but there not putting that much more stress then any other player so it doesn’t make sense how only they are getting carrier ending injury’s
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I am unconvinced that Lamar was affected. Concussions happen all the time and didn't affect him coming into the season. Errybody on my team was off catching the coof
I am convinced he was. He has had 2 injuries that made him miss 11 games in the last 2 seasons.
Madden cover curse: Mike Vick: goes to prison a decade later *madden cover curse*
That’s what I think lol madden 09 cover 70 years later he dies obviously the madden curse
@Freedom is over sad agreed. Many of those players tho r on their first contract which spans longer and don’t get real money for longer so it doesn’t mean much
He also broke his LEG the madden season soo... bad example
I’m confused on how Lamar had a “career ending” injury when concussions are common and didn’t mahomes get a concussion that same week but he still didn’t cross him out
“The curse hit gronkowski hard and he would never retu-.” “Imma stop you right there.”
LOL
lol
@@vcpf love the profile picture! That’s my favorite comic!
bad boys for life
Same with brown lmao
In the NFL right now, Brady and Mahomes are the only two that survived the curse, And guess who are on the 22' cover?!
Mahomes got struck by the curse at the beggining of the season started 3-4
Brady got hit by the curse. The divorce with his wife after getting in one more season which was mediocre at best. The worst of his career
Rip John Madden
the cover athletes from 17,18,19 and 20 are all playing in the super bowl this year
antonio brown is in it?
@@ajg6691 yeah he is with the bucs now
that's crazy lol and all of them are on the same team except for 1
@@sestytoes389 wait thats right i forgot about him 😂
and 14
The ankle injury didn't force Garrison Hearst into retirement, he was forced to miss the 1999 and 2000 seasons. He came back in 2001 and made the Pro Bowl, also winning Comeback Player of The Year.
I know also they said that he became a star with the 49ers the year he got injured but he already was a star three years earlier with the Cardinals. Thx for noticing most of my friends have seen it and fell for it.
Poor Vince. He was so persistent but the curse wins every time 😔
mahomes beat the madden curse
No it doesn’t. Players are playing injured all the time. You just don’t know it.
@@alishajahns4347 Jackson Mahomes. Your argument is invalid
I actually have a respect for him now. He didn’t go out like a wuss, NFL players are warriors. They are persistent, and Vince went out fighting, there are many NFL players I do respect, and he represents the Titans well.
@@IAmAlpharius20lamar jackson beat the curse
When you think about it people were at the top of their career's more than likely when they're featured on the cover , so really when you look at it they're careers only have one way to go and that's is down
No one’s going to talk about how AB made the super with Tom Brady
And won
And gronk to
That's the Tom Brady curse.
💯💯
Yeah but that’s not the same ab that was on the cover not the ✨Steelers✨ ab
Vontaze Burfict killed Antonio’s head I swear
No Cap
@Supfingo 95 lol
@Supfingo 95 yeah probably
thats what im saying, dude was like "the only explanation is the curse" and its like bro did you not see AB's soul leave his body on that hit? he aint been the same since
I agree
I like how the curse for some of these is just "a few years later he got older, injured, and eventually retired." Yeah...isn't that basically everyone?
I know, right? Like, to get the cover of Madden, you've got to be at the top of your game. It's not surprising to me that injuries happen to people who are playing professional sports, and the best players play the most games. How many other players with similar game time/career records had career ending injuries around the same time but weren't on a video game cover? Top level athletes suffer serious, sometimes career ending injuries. That's sports, not a curse.
There is a similar thing in Football (Soccer) in the Premiership each month the "Manager of the Month" award is given, almost every time, the manager that gets the award then loses the next game (not every time, but enough that its described as a curse)
This has killed my dream of being the cover person also now nobody is gonna be on the covers not even for millions of dollars
I would want to and then just retire
@@evang1244 same
I’d do it but there’s a chance I get hurt. So I use that money to heal my injury in surgeries
Me: I’m about to end this man’s whole career. *signs the contract*
What happened to Garrison
Maybe Barry just didn’t want to play anymore 😂
nice name...😎
Maybe
Growing up watching Barry Sanders in the 90's I was surprised he left the game when he did. Reports from ESPN back then was Detroit refused to trade him. His desire was to win. He didn't care about records or celebrating touchdowns. The Lions were not in position to compete for the super bowl so he retired. He was done losing. The Dolphins tried to get him in a trade and Detroit refused.
There’s no such thing as a madden curse.. most of the players that have been on a madden cover had or still have amazing careers. The only ones that fell apart were Peyton Hillis, Vince Young, and I wouldn’t even say Richard Sherman because that cover really should’ve been the entire Legion of Boom defense.
Did you even watch it he video
I am glad that Drew Brees pulled through, but he still had to retire 10 years later
the Curse ended when mahomes was on the COVER the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, thats what it took.
@@jimnfl7134 It ended when Eddie George had his best season in 2000 only for idiots to move the goalpost by saying "But the cover said 2001 so the curse is alive!" when they were going by the season the game edition was released beforehand.
Barry didn't retire because of the curse, He retired because he wanted to save his body, and was tired of losing
His body was fine and he could’ve gone five years and with staying healthy the lions just sucked the joy out of the game for him
Yep the madden cover curse got him
nah just a little bad luck man no curse he tried to spin but then it went wrong no way it a curse it was him
I didn’t Get him jeez
The Lions held off on paying him twice bro they ruined the game for him not really any other reason
The curse just said to Mahomes. "Hey how's it going" then walked to Lamar.
nah he had the curse before he was on the cover. the curse is called jackson mahomo
well he did dislocate his knee in the regular season but then again he won the super bowl
MAHOMES GOT INJURED REMEMBER
Nah it hit Antonio Brown so hard it took a break for a year
Lamar didn’t have a curse, yeah he might have got COVID-19 but he obviously would have caught it for playing with other teammates who could have had it. And his injury? That was just a bad game they played it happens to literally everyone
AB’s life changed after the Burfict hit not the Madden cover. PS the helmet he wore that day saved his life. I’d wanna wear it too
Other curses you could consider: 2013 Calvin Johnson - Lost in the Playoffs in 2014, He never returned to the playoffs 2015 Richard Sherman - Super bowl loss in 2015 2018 Tom Brady - Super bowl loss in 2018 2020 Patrick Mahomes - Super bowl loss in 2021 2021 Lamar Jackson - Injured not only in '21 but the next season as well, Putting him on IR until Fall 2023 2024 Josh Allen - As of December 2023, The Bills have a 6-6 record with an unstable looking Allen, Far from the 9-3 record of last year, Could miss the playoffs for the first time since 2018
The curse to Mahomes was “team forgets how to play football in the Super Bowl” Megatrons was keep getting hurt with horrible franchise
@@civitasstrategiesearlystar2359 everyone watched Tampa Bay kill Kansas City in the Superbowl. I can't believe that we paid zero dollars to watch a murder happen on TV that Sunday.
@Tripton Puffinbarger hahaha KC fans still blaming the refs for that big ass kicking they got on that Sunday back in February
@Tripton Puffinbarger Mahomes and the rest of KC is trash
@Tripton Puffinbarger did they win back to back Superbowls? No they are trash
lol
Damn, i did not know there was this much evidence
There are actually quite a few who didn’t get affected by the curse.
@@idefinitelytapped7396 maybe not affected as much, but still affected, patrick mahomes got injured slightly, brady lost the superbowl, antonio brown was kicked off 2 teams, and gronk also lost the superbowl
@@idefinitelytapped7396 There is no curse. Only children believe in curses.
What about Eddie George Brett Favre Calvin Johnson Richard Sherman and by the way Rob Gronkowski Antonio Brown Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes are all in the Super Bowl and guess what they were all on the cover. Jesus bless y’all
@@crflawnandlandscaping2285 Gronk and AB are a shell of there former selves and Tom and Pat weren't affected
This happens in football / soccer / fifa, its crazy too
As an OSU fan (we’re Barry Sanders went to college) I think the reason Barry left is because the lions only made the playoffs only once with him. He was also a franchise tag so he couldn’t leave. He probably wanted to be traded and when the lions said no he just said I quit.
More than once, they got there a few times but the team were never good enough to go far however.
The Madden Curse skipped Tom Brady 😭
No it was skipped by Mahomes. Brady lost the SB
jeremiah taban everyone hate Brady but it’s a fact, he lost
@@bigt1877 Brady went through Deflategate lmao. The Curse went light on him.
@jeremiah taban who wouldn’t he is trash
@@Sterlingdoesfootball is that why he has 6 superbowl rings and his playing for his 7th this week with a completely new team he just signed with last year?yea eat your worda bitch tom is the goat
This sounds like a horror story that I don’t wanna listen to but my brain telling me to but my eyes: HECK NAH
Your not grant gustin
BIG BRAIN EYES ,.
When I was younger I actually believed in good luck, bad luck, and curse but now I don't it's just all in your head. I believe that players just need to just say that they are on the cover of the game but don't let it get to you. If you let it go to your head and think everything is good but it can come around being bad. It's just your bad day that's what's going on. They should've just stayed positive and not let it get to themselves.
I’m a Bengals, Seahawks, Saints, and minor Ravens fan, so some of these do hit hard, but at heart, I’m a Saints fan as a Southerner, so Drew Brees’ injury really hurt me
Side note about Hearst, it’s crazy how vital he was to the 49ers organization during the late 90s to early 2000s. With the exception of his last year, (No, I want to forget that he played for Denver at one point.) the 49ers averaged around 12 wins per season during a time where the Greatest Show on Turf was at its peak, and that Falcons’ team that still had Jamal Anderson and Chris Chandler playing out of their MINDS.
That image of his leg twisting. Truly a horrific and heartbreaking moment for him, his family, his team, and his fans.
@The Flying Narwhal I know right
C’mon Man! It’s one of the most violent sports, injuries happening are only a matter of time!
Yea but it curse
Idk much about American football But.... If someone got injured they just need some time to recover and NOT RETIRING THE SPORT
That Madden 09 guy must have been sooooooo paranoid every game
In a way it got favre too. That season he played for the jets he went to shnit the second half of the season because he tore his bicep tendon and they went from having a really good season to finishing 9-7 and missing the playoffs. Granted he had surgery and came back the next year and almost went to the Superbowl with the Vikings but had problems out of that bicep tendon the next year.
Like how the intro song to madden 21 says, “someone put me out cuz I’m on fire”
That's also what the thumbnail of this video shows
I’m surprised they haven’t tried to pick Christian mccafrey for the cover
I think madden 22 will be Rodgers or Allen , wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Brady also but when he’s back I think he could be the cover of madden 23
I think Gronkowski
Again
@@zg_curseonyt1202 i kinda think Aaron rodgers or or maybe derrick henry but he wasnt the best this year he still was one of the best though
@CarterConrad any askers
It happened to Mahomes in the 3rd or 4th week, he injured his knee after he got put on the Madden 20 cover.
Exactly
That injury didn’t force him into retirement. He’s still one of the best qb in the nfl today
Yo.... I've never known about this. And now I'm SHOOKETH..
u forgot to mention the massive blow AB took that knock him out on impact and after that hit is when his pesonality started to change thats what lead to problems in steelers looker room i dont blame the curse i think it honistly might be medical he sufferd changes to his brain chemistry which caused personality changes but thats just AB the rest of the players was the curse IN MY OPINION
That hit definitely messed up is brain. He received TBI.
@@finnrichert9151 cte
Vontaze burfict always delivers
Been saying for a long time I think AB has CTE from that hit.
@@AstroworldGlobal CTE is a result of repeated TBI. Finn is right.
Barry Sanders was also on the Madden 25 cover for PS3 and XBOX 360, cuz I have it And also, to answer your question on who would retire at the peak of their career Michael Jordan, 1993
he left detriot or retired because they had no one he would work with
It could just be that people are getting picked to be the cover at their peak, leaving only downhill for the future
People watching this video in February 2021: “Man, that Antonio Brown is really messed up.” Me in January 2022: “You have no idea what’s coming.”
Madden 2021: ehhh ima add everyone
WE ALL DOOMED IF THAT HAPPENS
as long as they don't touch kittle I'm ok but Rodgers or russ
3:03 “who just retires out of nowhere at the peak of their career” Umm.. Andrew Luck? 😂😂
Tiki Barber
Luke kicley
@@No-cf7ik yeah it’s crazy when they retire out of nowhere like that. 😂😂
I think Mahomes had some efects from the cures early in the season losing to the chargers. Then just going into a losing streek.
nobody cares
@@suranrao5436 I am sorry did I ask you for your opinion
The frostbite thing with Antonio brown scared me lol
This happens to every single player on the FIFA cover too
And 2k
And NHL
And MLB
I think the reason this coincidence happens is when an NFL player gets on the madden game they get confident, they feel on top of the world, since they are on the madden cover it means they were picked for being one of the best. That is why I conclude that the NFL curse is not real and it affects people on the cover of madden because they make dangerous decisions in games because of their supposed greatness. Also 74 percent is not good considering most of the athletes all the way from madden 17 are still fine today.
Ab
Hmmmm. But that doesn’t happen with soccer or nba or any other ea sport title
AB ( don’t even have to explain ) Lamar ( Season ending injury ) Gronk ( back spasms, punctured lung, broken ribs, released and now a free agent ) Kermit ( Jackson Mahomes and his wife ) so in conclusion nobody except a few since madden 17 haven’t been safe
@@zernox69 they are playing normally
I'm just sad that midway quit making nfl blitz cause madden sucks.
The first one showed so much detail I couldn't even watch
Hahaha 🤣 the “Jagwires” 😂
I think the curse isn't really a curse. I think it's just the fact that the pressure and everything about making the cover gets to their heads and worries the players which affects how they play
Same
ur not wrong
Mhm exactly
@The Badguy no it's in their head. It's not a spell
@The Badguy I see what u saying now
Another thing, the Legion of Boom was actually the cover on Madden 15, not just Sherman. LOB got destroyed pretty shortly after that.
I will never forget watching that Bulldog smoke the Jets for 98 yards! That was game one of a really heartbreaking season, Them Boys got us.
I still remember when Michael Vick broke his leg in that preseason game that's when I knew the Madden Curse is real
They had Brady on there didn’t they?? And he won his 7th but ig it’s just Tom freaking Brady 🤦♂️
He lost to the Eagles that year I thought
He lost that year to the eagles in the superbowl
@@stormtrooper. He did, but no career ending injuries or problems.
@@Airland_combat He did come back the next year and won against the rams but a loss for brady is huge
@@stormtrooper. well injuries is much worse then losing in a Super Bowl would you want your career to be over by a injury or be sad
Okay, that Vince Young story is insane
Yea
I think it’s more the type of players that get on the cover, they are all-stars and afterwards get treated as such in the game, it just paints a giant target on the back
2nd time watching this and i feel ike the players are just exited to then they try to be better, but thats when it happens
don`t forget about Mahomes getting that concussion in the playoff game
Dj LilClipz came back the next week and one so
Wasn't a concussion.
@@micah2426 he was literally in concussion protocol lol
and he got injured last year but it was only for like 2 weeks on an ankle injury
I think the big thing is he might of peaked his first season in the league
I think that Antonio was affected so much by the curse, that the curse just took a break to rest when Mahomes was on the cover lol
Mahomes got injured (yea came back and won a superbowl) but then he got a concussion this year and his team nearly lost
The curse can still happen 4 years later
It gave Mahomes a mercy injury so it could go mess with AB some more
@@GraveDigger35 lol so true. Dear curse, Plz go mess up ABs life some more. From Salty Steelers fan
@@maxthemet LMAO i fw it tho
“As the collective consciousness believes and thinks so are they”
Nfl and nba channels both fire
"The world, was ready to watch another....." *literally just America*
Nah there is a lot of international fans. When they play at Wembley, I am pretty sure that place sells out.
It’s an American sport though. There maybe 25k in international viewers.
Its like nobody puts into consideration that when the people get put on a cover they get arrogant
Facts it’s not a curse it’s not none of that Antonio Brown was not a curse on the cover he got nailed by Vontaze Burfict in that mess something up in his head the coincidences in the form of a man cover is not a curse and George was on the cover nothing happened to him
i rember when you made a video about the nba 2k curse
While Calvin Johnson didn’t get injured, he did have a rule named after him (not in a good way) and also retired early like Barry. And spending his entire career with a mediocre Lions team could be considered a curse in itself.
Me thinking the curse is gone since nothing happened to lamar in the regular season until he got an concussion in playoffs
Well he tested positive for COVID.
well he did have explosive constipation in the middle of a game
@@thedude3065 I dont know why dats a problem when he came back and won the game🤦♂️
The reason Brady wasn’t affected was because In family guy god was a huge patriots fan so he couldn’t hurt his precious
You could argue he was affected, albeit in a rather minor way. He did lose Super Bowl LII that year to the Eagles.
@@greninjamastergabe6452 to a substitute quarterback
U know he lost the super bowl that same year right
it did affect him bc he hurt his hand that year and he threw a good bit of interceptions
What about gronk
This is maddening!
When I first watched this it was like watching the sandlot
The madden curse wasn’t real until everyone believed it was, that’s how it works.
Exactly
@@user-ll8wy6ws4r Fax
😳
Damn I'm starting to believe in curse o_o
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Something else I noticed is JT had a fumble and injury riddled season after SI made and posted a madden 23 cover of him before it was decided Madden himself would be on the cover.
Tom Brady dropped a game winning trick pass during Super Bowl LII against the Eagles. Some goat lmao
The best part about this video is when he says “till the next season”
12:00 u did not just say that lmfaoooo
The fact that this also happened with the wwe raw vs smackdown video game curse
This happens in FIFA too, for example FIFA 17 Rues was on the cover and then a couple weeks later he got badly injured and could not play for 4 months.
"Forced into retirement" Aged like milk.
As a Bears fan I see this curse as an absolute win since my team sucks so much that none of them would ever make it on the cover.
Then in 2017 the Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL) team signed Vince but it didn’t last long
It's the fact how Vince kept going and going with all these injuries
That won’t stop my dream from trying my best to try to make it to the nfl ✊
Nfl is fixed try another profession.
Man that old astro turf was the absolute drizzling shits... Caused so many promising talented players to cut their careers short
Brett Favre got hurt that year too with the Jets , we started 8-4 and he injured his shoulder and we ended the season 9-7 missing the playoffs losing to the Dolphin
PlayStation puts a football for the cover Football: * breaks leg *
It’s ea
antonio brown wasnt banned from the NFL forever as u can see he got signed on the patriots a bit after leaving raiders and then he got signed with the buccs somewhere after the season with the patriots
10:48 I heard this season that he just quit mid game, a couple weeks ago.
Reminds me of the curse of Talidaiga in NASCAR
Actually, Vontaze Burfict hit Antonio and caused brain things with him.