The Sports Illustrated cover jinx is an urban legend stating that the individual or team appearing on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated will be a curse (bad luck).
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While the list of "examples" (links to unrelated subjects) of the curse may be extensive, the individual records of 50 cover appearances by Michael Jordan did not preclude his success. Similarly, Vince Young also overcame jinx Sports Illustrated by appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated twice during the Texas National Championship season;
Emmitt Smith appeared on the cover the same week as the Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl XXVIII. In the documentary film America's Game, Smith remembers that he sincerely wants to shut down for fear of a curse. Regardless, the Cowboys went on to win their second successive title in the 1990s, and fourth in team history. Tony Dorsett appeared on the cover with the title "Heading for the Heisman" in 1976 and indeed won the Heisman Trophy that year. Andrew McCutchen appeared on the cover of September 2013, during a season in which he later won the National League MVP Award and led the Pittsburgh Pirates to their first playoff spot in twenty years. The 2013 Seattle Seahawks appear on the cover of September 2013 in which the magazine predicts the Super Bowl XLVIII victory for the team; indeed, Seahawks won the Super Bowl in next February. The cover of June 30, 2014 edition predicts that Houston Astros will win the World Series 2017; Astros not only won the World Series in 2017, but the MVP of the series is George Springer, which is featured on the cover. Stephen Curry appeared on two covers in May 2015 in a row and led the Golden State Warriors to their first NBA title in forty years. Kyrie Irving appeared on the cover of 6 June 2016 and led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the first NBA title in franchise history. Usain Bolt is featured on the cover of July 18, 2016 which promotes his quest for the fastest human ever and won gold in the 100, 200 and 4x100 meters relay at the 2016 Rio Games. Chicago Cubs appeared on the cover of 10 October 2016 in which the magazine predicted the 2016 World Series for teams; indeed, the Cubs won the World Series. Lamar Jackson appeared on September 26, 2016 and then won the Heisman Cup that year.
A common explanation for perceived effects is that athletes are usually displayed on the cover after excellent performance, which may be an outlier compared to their usual level of performance. Therefore, their future performance tends to display regression to the mean and less impressive than. This performance degradation will then be misinterpreted as related to, or perhaps even caused by, the appearance on the magazine cover.
Most athletes who suffer from the curse are most likely to suffer from injury to their bodies, or other bad luck after their appearance. One of the main candidates for this explanation was Eddie Mathews who suffered a broken hand while nine of the team's winning streak ended after closing. In this case, chances are a player will get injured while playing any sport with injuries given in physical contact sports like American football or baseball which is what Mathews plays. Even injuries in individual sports like skiing can fall under this explanation because it is common to make a bad move in this sport and get stuck in a big mistake from an athlete who does that result in injury. Finally, the victory and successive defeat became almost in all sports and this included a winning streak of 9 Milwaukee games in 1954. It made the Miami Dolphins a perfect season of 1972, the perfect regular season of the 2007 New England Patriots, and the winless Detroit Lions 2008 season all over extraordinary.
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