January 23, 2008
Curses! S.I. Hits Newsstands with Eli on Cover
Last week, Brett Favre was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. This week, Eli Manning graces the cover of the magazine. If you believe the S.I. cover curse/jinx, then the Giants may be in trouble. In the magazine, Peter King gives the Giants-Packers game the cover story treatment, while Dr. Z decides to pick the Giants to make up for picking against the Jets in Super Bowl III.
We're not sure if Manning believes in the S.I. jinx, but he does have other superstitions. After all, he did make his fiancée sit in the stands during the Green Bay game and his brother Peyton stayed away to prevent another bad game by Eli.
Obviously there are many, many athletes that are featured on Sports Illustrated's cover which don't see any adverse affects, but there's at least one local team that hasn't had the best luck recently. The Mets were on a July, 2006 cover and they lost later that year in the NLCS. The team was again featured in June, 2007, a season with an epic collapse to miss the playoffs.
But let's not read into the cover curse too much though. After all, Tom Brady & Matt Light are both on the cover as well. Albeit in a much less prominent role. Maybe S.I. will be kind enough to do a cover story on Brady, Randy Moss, Bill Belichick, or any other member of the Patriots next week. Or maybe those nonsensical Bridget Moynahan masks will do the trick.
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Manning's fiance sat in the heated luxury box at Lambeau, though nobody told Eli about it until after the game.
I think the cover of SI is pretty cool, but I don't like people picking them to win. The last thing they need is to either get full of themselves or provide the Pats with even more motivation.
well, that kind of sucks. the first point.
That Bridget Moynahan mask is awesome! Can't wait to see if it gets effectively used come game time.
Brady will be on the cover next week so it will all balance out.
Dr. Z picking them to win is a bigger jinx than the cover could ever be. I mean, it's not enough New England get all the calls...
I know Belichick was on the cover a couple of weeks back, but could we have Moss or Brusci or anyone else from that motley bunch on next week's cover... please?
New England got one more penalty than the NYG in the regular season.
did anyone actually believe his fiancée would sit out in the cold for 3 hours?
Why didn' the Giants pay off SI to not put Eli on the cover?
It's the defense that has been winning the games anyway.
Just busting you, MJG (I'm taking a wild guess I know who you're rooting for). Ref gripes are loser talk. But your crowd does seem a bit twitchy about it.
The Giants are going to lose because Eli Manning is on the cover of SI? I thought the Giants are going to lose because they're the inferior team. Go figure.