From a May 11 interview with ESPN:
“Actually, I don’t even believe in curses. It’s really sad how many people believe in curses. This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you’re going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don’t pay too much attention to that. I’ll let it take care of itself.”
Then came an eight-touchdown, 600-yard decline in productivity, a hamstring injury, an exchange of tough guy back-and-forth with his team over a contract and that time he bailed on a charity gig with the Cleveland Boys And Girls Club. This deadly combination of bad PR, commonplace injury, personal assholery and “living in Cleveland” can only mean one thing.
From a December 19 interview with Cleveland.com:
“No doubt about it, things haven’t worked to my favor this year. There’s a few things that happened that made me believe in curses. Ain’t no doubt about it.”
There you have it. There ain not any doubt about it. Peyton Hillis is cursed, and the only way the Browns can get back on track is if Mike Holmgren tricks John Madden into walking over a cleverly disguised pit and rips off his face to reveal Old Man Jenkins from the abandoned amusement park.
I think they should find the worst player in the NFL and put him on the Madden 13 box just to see if he spontaneously combusts. Any takers?
[h/t to Shutdown Corner]
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“they should find the worst player in the NFL”
Paging Tyler Palko, Tyler Palko you have a representative from EA Sports on the line for you.
“Jeff Backus, please pick up the white courtesy phone.”
Isn’t everything in Cleveland cursed?
I am personally more afraid of the Wheaties hex than the Madden curse.
It’s not a Madden curse, it’s a fucking Pat Shurmur curse. That guy is like the anti-Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.
Oh, and he’s a horrible fucking head coach, in case I didn’t imply that well enough.
He wasn’t good enough to be on the cover anyway. He was traded for Brady Quinn!
Imagine what could have happened had Vick been put on the cover. All hail the 5-11 Eagles?
It’s probably more of a “white running back curse” than anything else. I mean, he’s seen Merrill Hoge on TV before, right?
“I think they should find the worst player in the NFL and put him on the Madden 13 box”
Why do it two years in a row?
(Oh! Browns fan here. Just venting.)