Microgaming Online Casinos: Online casinos ponder return of the Madden curse

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Microgaming Online Casinos - Online casinos ponder return of the Madden curse

Fresh from the announcement of the offerings of odds over when the next Major League Baseball player will be shamed by failing a steroid test, the online casinos and sports book site Bodog has thrown its hat into the ring for odd odds on NFL players. Well, specifically one: Donovan McNabb. The backstory to the online casinos odds of Bodog is this: each year, the video game company Electronic Arts selects a player whom they think is well-known but still promising enough a player to merit being the cover-boy for their own well-known annual NFL video game, this year’s Madden NFL 2006.

However, this honor may not be all it is cracked up to be, as a number of players who have been featured on the cover of EA's popular football game have been injured in the season following their stint on Madden’s cover, leading many observers in the sports world and at online casinos who like Madden NFL and the actual NFL itself to speak of the existence of a “Madden Cover Curse”. This year’s cover player is none other than the previously mentioned Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb – and the announcement has prompted the online casinos site Bodog to offer even odds that the Madden curse will claim a portion of yet another star player's season due to injury in the upcoming NFL season.

Says Calvin Ayre, founder and current CEO of online casinos site and sports book Bodog, "To be chosen as the cover boy for this incredibly popular video game is an honor that the star quarterback is certain to embrace. And gracing the video game cover is said to bring three things: mass-media exposure, hefty endorsement checks and the Madden curse. Last year was the exception, as Baltimore Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis appears to have escaped injury and avoided the curse. Let's hope for McNabb's sake, the curse is behind us."

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