Ray Lewis To Break Madden Game Cover Curse?

An anonymous reader writes "CNN/Money, in a column looking at the oft-discussed Madden cover curse, discloses that Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Raven will be on the cover of Electronic Arts' Madden NFL 2005 videogame, due out in August. For the past four years, the athlete on the cover of that game has had an injury plagued or shortened season, dating back to 2001, when Tennessee Titan Eddie George got knocked all around the field, including a particularly brutal hit by... Ray Lewis."

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Re:amazing

[heliocentric]

IIRC John Madden Football games date back to 1991 (I think it was released in 1991 for the first version, but I've seen it referred to as the 1990 version). However, all of the games released from the start until 2001 had Madden's gigantic head on the cover, not a player.

I can get players from 2001 on, with their "issues" of the following season:

'04: Mike Vick (broken leg)
'03: Marshall Faulk (ankle)
'02: Daunte Culpepper (crappy season, just a bad rating, not a true injury as the curse seems to claim to me)
'01: Eddie George (crappy season again, low yardage per attempt)

Note, for the 2001 game it was released in 2000 for those of you trying to match this info. to a calendar.