and I wonder if that issue is at Borders? I’m about to head there to find out. This is so cool. (That reporter is a dirtbag.) Thanks for passing this along, John.

Well I guess it’s nice to be on the cover of SI, but I think this team is playing to a different type of leadership on the sidelines and on the field. No flying under the radar now, we are 4 and 0 Baby!

Go Broncos

But what bugs me is that there will be people (in the case we lose to New England next weekend) who are going to blame the SI cover…..

(PS: I do believe in the Madden curse)

I have never even heard of an SI Cover jinx! So no, if we lose, it’s because we were outplayed, period.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/2009/10/06/digging-into-the-si-vault/

Just got a text from a Broncos Super Fan (who just so happens to be my former boss), with a eerie fun fact about the Broncos being on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Turns out, the Broncos were on the cover 25 years ago this week, on Oct. 8, 1984, with the headline "The Broncos Bust Out."

Here’s the cover, featuring Sammy Winder.

Compare that to this week’s cover, featuring Daniel Graham. Pretty crazy, no?

I believe in the Madden Curse, but I never heard of the SI Curse.

Elway was on the SI Cover like 13 times…last I checked he was still in the Hall of Fame and a 5 time Super Bowl QB with 2 rings.

Madden Curse=REAL Just ask every player who has been on it…except Favre.

however, the madden curse is legit. i’m just waiting for fitzgerald to get his (polamalu already got struck)

in the curse of the team that believes there own press and starts thinking that you don’t have to make plays, that it will just happen. I preferred the negative buzz. These guys were hungry and I want them to stay hungry. Fortunately, McDaniels has been around positive buzz for quite a few years and will keep them grounded and focused on the next game. I think big heads are the curse….and being on the cover of S.I. is a way to create big heads.

Besides, I’m superstitious. If I hadn’t have jumped on the elliptical machine after the first half, we never would have had improved offensive drives. :p

From Jerome Bettis:

“More apologies: To Josh McDaniels. Before the Broncos played even one game the jury was out on that guy: He was cocky, he was brash, he was young, he looked like a high school kid, and he’d made some boneheaded decisions that broke up a good team. Being a head coach was a little bit over this guy’s head.

After Denver defeated Dallas, we have to reassess those decisions: letting Cutler go; the way he handled Brandon Marshall; bringing in Mike Nolan to lead the defense. We have to look at the people he surrounded himself with — those were some solid choices. He took on his biggest challenge yet with Dallas, and it was a defining moment for this coach. He validated all of those choices. We were all wrong."

Now how about that. There’s one guy who isn’t afraid to admit it.

But it doesn’t really matter that much and NO I don’t believe in the curse.

applies to singular players, and it jinxes them before they do anything positive. I’ve never heard of it jinxing entire teams or players that were already producing. Madden does that.

The story in the upper right corner must be about Marlin Briscoe, right? Right?

Can’t believe how many have not heard of the SI curse. I think that’s an 80’s thing, John. You may have just dated yourself.

Anyway, I choose to not believe in it.

because we’re wearing throwbacks this week.

but we did beat the Pats in them in the first game ever played in the old AFL.

pre-dates Marlin Briscoe by a few decades from the looks of the uniforms in that one

I have here the Feb 08 issue of SI. The cover shows David Tyree, Rodney Harrison and Eli Manning. Since that picture was taken all three men’s lives have been destroyed.

Tyree was cut.

Harrison retired. Probably because of SI.

Manning was diagnosed with plantar fasciitis. No doubt from slipping on a copy of SI left on the floor.

Plus, here’s another thing. I went back to the very first cover of SI and tracked the fate of everyone who has ever been on the cover.

It turns out that over the decades, THEY ARE SLOWLY DYING OFF.

Its true, and the list of names reads like a who’s who of sports. Football…baseball…basketball…golf. It doesn’t matter. Vince Lombardi…Arthur Ashe…Payne Stewart…ALL DEAD. It goes on and on people.

And now Daniel Graham. Poor soul. I am afraid this means that one day, many years from now, Daniel Graham might die. I know, we can’t be sure of that but if and when it happens we will all know who to blame.

Sports Illustrated.

Not that I believe in it, but aren’t there tons of examples? Isn’t the most recent being OK State football before losing to Houston?

in that pic in the upper right corner. We had plastic helmets and face bars in ’60. That guy has a leather helmet and no face protection.

I will go and get one when it comes out.

I do sorta believe in the SI Jinx, but then I also believe turning my baseball cap inside out when my team is down will help them come back, so don’t listen to me. ;-)

But if the Broncos do lose next Sunday at least we can all blame SI and move on.

Just another magazine our team could care less about right now! : )

But congratulations to them for taking the respect that no one was giving.