Originally Posted by ClockShot (Post 4810062)

I would have given it to Peyton Manning as a big thank you. Keep everyone free and clear from the curse.

Cross your fingers, Pats fans.

Originally Posted by Vito Cruz (Post 4810065)

The Madden Curse used to be fun to talk about when you could undeniably make a case for it existing as every player had really glaring issues immediately after

But then Brees was on the Madden 11 cover and had a typical Brees year. People made the fringe argument that the Saints losing to the 7-9 Seahawks in the playoffs counted toward the curse. Even if you wanted to count that, Megatron broke the fucking receiving record the year he was on the cover. Yeah they didn't make the playoffs. So what? It's a team sport. OBJ ensured it stayed dead this year too.

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4810069)

Could end up with something like a curse by association for Ryan Tannehill since there were reports of Peyton giving some advice/help to him recently.



Yeah the curse itself has been on a decline for a while. A lot of the curse's status was due to the guys being picked having a career year or won the Superbowl so in order for them to "break" it, they either needed another career type year or title.

Even the Superbowl prediction using Madden hasn't been as reliable as it was in past years.

Originally Posted by ESPN

Los Angeles will host Super Bowl LV in 2021, the final of three bids awarded during the meeting. Atlanta earned the bid for Super Bowl LIII in 2019, and South Florida received the bid for Super Bowl LIV in 2020.

Originally Posted by NY Post

Manning, who helped the Denver Broncos win a Super Bowl in February and retired a month later, has denied accusations made in the documentary that he was shipped packages HGH in his wife’s name while recovering from neck surgery in 2011.

In his frothing initial outrage, Manning suggested he would sue Al Jazeera for defamation. However, USA Today, citing a person familiar with Manning’s strategy, said the former quarterback — surprise, surprise — has decided not to file a lawsuit. The source said this is due to his reluctance to allow access to personal information and records about he and his wife, Ashley, as well as the cost in resources he would need to shell out to go to court.

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4816679)

Peyton Manning announced he won't be suing Al Jazeera regarding the roids report they published earlier in the year. At least 4 other players in the report will and a lot of growing speculation the NFL's own investigations are being purposely dragged along and hoping the public loses all interest in this situation.

Originally Posted by ESPN

For years, the NFL has been investigating the possibility of using chips in footballs to help improve the inexact science of ball placement.

Officials put the ball at the spot they believe it hits when the runner is ruled down. A chip could provide a more precise location on plays near the first-down marker. It could also help officials determine when (and if) the ball crossed the goal line.

Research to this point had suggested that chips were unreliable when the ball is buried in a pile of players.

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball (Post 4834313)

NFL considering placing chips inside of game balls this preseason and Thursday games as a way to help tweak certain rules in the future and help out refs in the near future.

K balls would help determine if the goal posts should get narrower to make FGs and extra points even harder to make.

Regular balls would help refs in regards to being more accurate when spotting the ball after downs. Only issue being science is split on how effective it is when dogpiles occur.


http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/17...ason-thursdays

Originally Posted by ESPN

The NFL has rejected sworn affidavits from James Harrison, Clay Matthews, Julius Peppers and Mike Neal -- which the players had written in response to an Al-Jazeera America report that mentioned them in PED allegations -- and has demanded to interview them at training camp, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The league rejected the NFLPA's view that affidavits constitute reasonable cooperation by the players and confirmed that they are required to participate in in-person interviews, the source said.