Gronk On Madden 17 Cover (It Seems) (Edit: and GQ)

Madden NFL 17 Standard Edition

The Madden Curse didn't really hit Odell, so hopefully he will be okay.

Curses!!! More of Goodell's doing I bet.

I wouldn't go off that, they have been promoting that the cover athlete would be revealed today on Sportscenter. Doubt they would put it up before. Seems like that's just a placeholder that the XBOX store is using. In fact that graphic of Gronk was the one they used last year when they did the vote, I doubt they'd use the same one.

No Madden curse for Beckham? He got shut down by some UDFA from a D2 school...

Why the Madden curse works is prety simple. Generally you don't get on the cover of Madden unless you have a career year. Of course you will not match those numbers next year and come back down to the average of your career.

Gronk on the other hand if he plays 16 games could easily match last years numbers if not beat them.

I am more worried about him being injured (cursed) than not putting up numbers.

I think we can all agree that Gronk will put #s up if he is on the field.

Madden will continue to suck, regardless of who is on the cover.

And GQ it appears:

Ian said:

And GQ it appears:

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The GQ curse? No Gronk has ever won a SB coming off a GQ cover.

They announced there will be no public vote for who will be on the Madden cover this year. I kinda figured that when I heard that it would be Gronk.

Ian said:

And GQ it appears:

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He's really letting himself go. Hopefully he'll be back in football shape by the start of training camp.

Rob0729 said:

They announced there will be no public vote for who will be on the Madden cover this year. I kinda figured that when I heard that it would be Gronk.

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Probably a good guess. They want to be associated with the Gronk brand but know the public won't likely choose a Pat.

Rob0729 said:

They announced there will be no public vote for who will be on the Madden cover this year. I kinda figured that when I heard that it would be Gronk.

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EA hasn't given a **** what anyone thinks in years so makes sense that they would stop the vote too.

I usually buy the digital copy of madden then delete it when the new one comes out. This year, I am buying the hard copy and keeping it just bc of Gronk!

At least it will be nice seeing a Patriot all year at the loading screen. I got tired the last few years seeing the Legion of Boom and OBJ.

I'm just waiting patiently for the "There's a Patriot on the cover so this game probably comes with cheat codes" tweets on social media....

AtomicDawg said:

I'm just waiting patiently for the "There's a Patriot on the cover so this game probably comes with cheat codes" tweets on social media....

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It's already started. Especially on facebook in AFC East War rooms.

This was going to be the first Madden I bought in a few years until the Brady decision happened and soured me on football in general. Now Gronk being on the cover just makes it more miserable for me.

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