Thinking Sideways: The Madden Curse

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

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🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

John Madden Football (now Madden NFL) hit consoles in 1988. The "curse" began when it began featuring players on the cover. Does this game really have the power to destroy players' careers, or is it just a lot of audibles?

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1:21.5	Hey there and welcome again to thinking sideways where once again we have a mystery for you.
1:40.3	This week we're gonna talk about a completely different kind of mystery.
1:45.0	But first what is your name?
1:47.0	Well, I was gonna tell people what we were talking about before I told them who I was. So that maintained the mystery.
1:53.3	But if you want to destroy the mystery, I really would like to know what is your name.
1:57.5	Who are you people? What's going on? Why am I feeling it's real?
2:02.1	I actually figured if I talked long enough, one of you would spill my name so you could tell me who I was because I don't remember anymore.
2:08.0	Okay, well we aren't think inside with that Steve over there that I'm pointing to.
2:11.3	There's Devon. Yeah, I one of these two guys is Joe.
2:15.0	I better known as Wolf. Oh yeah.
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