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ESPN Video Games had him at 12-1 odds, but Nashville City Paper is reporting that Vince Young will be on the cover of Madden 2008. This is awful news for Titans fans, of course, who have had enough experience with the Madden Curse — Eddie George was Patient Zero of this little game — to be awfully wary.
Young will be announced as the cover boy on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" tonight, where the host will corner him and basically be a sanctimonious ass about heel-snippers trying to take down world class celebrities like himself. While this is proof that the Wonderlic rating will never be a major factor on Madden, it's also telling that Peyton Manning didn't make the cover. No matter how many kids he pegs in the head with footballs, he'll just never be hip enough to make it. Maybe, someday, he'll make Kenny Chesney Guitar Hero.
Young To Grace Cover Of Madden 08 [Nashville City Paper]
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Holy shit. Vince Young trained under Dhalsim?
This was also advised by Larry David.
Is he gonna live forever/
flying like a bird in the sky (Fame!)
wow. i never thought it was possible for an entire city to breathe a collective sigh of relief all at the exact same moment...
kudos San Diego
where the host will corner him and basically be a sanctimonious ass about heel-snippers trying to take down world class celebrities like himself.
Wow. Someone might still be bitter. (Love ya, Will!)
Hey did anyone see Kimmel drunk walking in New York?
I think they're about to do a move from the Kama Sutra.
So I guess the Save LT website worked? Awesome.
Manning and LT2 were probably smart enough to say "hell no" to the EA Sports reps!
gawker media unity is cute
@Lady Andrea: Naw, he's just trying to get the hell away from Pac Man.
Reggie Bush was going to be on the cover but EA Sports wouldn't let him wear #5.
Also, why not just kill two birds with one stone and put Chad Pennington on the cover every year...
Get those Kerry Collins jerseys out of the closet Titans fans! What, you don't have one?
Way to stick up for Gawker. Would you have done the same if it had been Balk?
What's VY's Wonderlic rating in the game?
That's it, I'm never watching Jimmy Kimmel Live again.
What? I haven't watched since the first week? Oh.
@Chief Illiniwek (Ret.): Kerry ON or OFF the bottle?
What are the odds on the different ways Vince is going to get hurt? I got 10-1 on a shark attack.
@Lady Andrea: yeah, that's what I thought as well.
@golgi_apparatus: How about - landing with your vagina spread on an offensive lineman's boner (as pictured above)?
Accomplishing precious little and being the cover boy for your sport's signature video game?
Vince, Freddy Adu would like a word...
Maybe this has been covered in a DUAN thread, but why the boring tags all the sudden, Will? Granted, we had the Whimsy! tag yesterday, but I want some
"More stuff you are going to shit all over"
and
"Masturbation"
and
"Aggressive Acts of Urination"
Anybody else?
@thesepretzels: That reminds of the first week of Kimmel when Snoop Dog guest hosted I believe. Those were some funny episodes whenever he would have a good guest host on in the beginning
@golgi_apparatus: I'll give you 10,000-1 on that shark attack.
@ForTheShorties: I'll take "things you can't unsee" for $100, Alex.
Two classics come to mind: anal blowout and milk-monkey gang rape
Kimmel's right. I used Gawker Stalker to track down Aj Benza to ask him for the ten bucks he owes me.
@MattMillenFanClub: 2-1@thesepretzels: I'll take it. I gotta admit tho, I'm no good with odds.
@thesepretzels:
but what are the odds of Vince being impaled by John Mellencamp's Oscar?
@ArkansasFred: You're kidding. AJ Benza had $10?
@The Big Smooth: I did enjoy it at first. Like the time when the "large" comedian (i think it was Ralphie May) fell down the steps (i didn't used to be a very nice person.) It quickly became not worth the hard drive space on my Tivo. Now he's clearly very important (just ask him.)
Does this make Texans fans happy that they passed on Young? I'm guessing so.
@grungedave: 10,000 x 10,000-1.
I'm calling Ladbrokes.
but what are the odds of Vince being impaled by John Mellencamp's Oscar?
more importantly, what's the over/under on how long before we have a commentor named "john mellencamp's oscar"?
i am going with 6.5 days
Dude, Eddie George was not patient zero for the Madden Curse. Garrison Hearst definitely was the first. He was on the cover of Madden 99, and then he promplty broke his ankle and was out of the NFL for 2 years.
/threadjack
There's a picture of the VT shooter up on CNN.com, and, uh, I'll just say that he certainly looks the part.
/threadjack
/threadjack
VT/police released the name of the shooter. Cho Seung-Hui. Only anagram I can come up with:
His gun ouch-e
Kimmel pretty much cut that Gawker lady down on Larry King Live. Her facial expressions and 'well, they ARE rich' argument fell flat. While I like Gawker, Kimmel defeated her, I believe.
Aw crickets...
@BigTenObsession:
Looks like Will might have a case of Cangiveitbutcan'ttakeit-itis. Or maybe he is faking it... I don't want to piss off anybody.
Gawker's reaction to the whole Kimmell incident reminds me of Eric Cartman being an asshole to everybody, but when someone hits him he immediately starts crying. I love Cartman, by the way.
@Christ Sabo: I thought Kimmel came away looking much worse. Especially when he told her she was going to hell.
@GlenAndersonLikesBoys: Kerry on the bottle is so much more fun. Titans fans will need the distraction with Adam Jones gone.
... reminds me of Eric Cartman being an asshole to everybody, but when someone hits him he immediately starts crying.
how soon we forget that he whooped that midget's ass
@lieutenant winslow:
he also put that Costa Rican snake in its place!
"that's a bad snake, bad snake!!"
@Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!:
On a gross generalization scale of 1-100, with 100 being the highest, I give your comment a 94. That's a student ID picture, I believe. Has there EVER been a student ID pic where someone didn't look like a criminal? 90% of the time kids are hungover from their first night on campus, and it isn't exactly Ansel Adams taking the photo. I remember I had a massive case of bedhead, puffy/squinty eyes, and my mouth may have been drooped open a little.
@thesepretzels: That first week was sweet though. Snoop rocks.
@HeavyPettingZoo: I just look like I'm six years old in my photo.
Yeah, Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!, he totally didn't have one of those black fleece criminal masks on with the eye holes and mouth hole.
also, no pantyhose on his head.
therefore, he didn't look like a criminal at all.
@DennyCrane:
I looked like I just auditioned for the role of Nick Nolte following his DUI bust.
@HeavyPettingZoo: Ehh, I disagree, as this kid has more of a "Kill Kill Kill, pissed off at the world" look, as opposed to the "Dear god please make the bright light go away" look that most of us have on our student IDs.
and jimmy kimmel is a professional comedian right? it makes sense that he could take out a blog lady without much sweat.
Jerry Seinfeld might give him trouble. Conan O'Brien would take him out in a verbal debate.
Jay Leno would wack him with his chin if he got out of line. David Letterman would sic his gimp on jimmy.
Conversation overheard on Titans sideline in week 3 after Vince Young's season-ending ACL tear:
Jeff Fisher: "Hey, who the hell did we get for Billy Volek again?"
Assistant athletic therapist: "Conditional sixth-rounder, Coach Fish."
Fisher: "God dammit. Someone wake up Collins, I guess."
I wish Brett Favre was on the cover. It would have been payback for putting us through years of "will he or won't he retire?" stories.