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...John Madden first ceded the cover of his eponymous game for the 1999 edition, one of the NFL's quirkiest subplots has been the "Madden Curse," which appears to leave the game's cover boys injured or ineffective the following season. "The jinx thing bites us every year," Chris Erb, a marketing director for the juggernaut video game, said in 2007. "I haven't told this to people, but I've got a bottle of champagne in my office that we're ready to pop once someone breaks the curse...
Most people involved with football downplay the curse. "What we've been involved with has been coincidence after coincidence," Erb said in 2005. "We've just had a string of bad luck." After being waylaid by a broken foot in 2006, Seattle's Alexander declared, "Curse or no curse, everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to be on that cover. I don't know one person that would...
Patricia A. Erb, a union member and staff assistant in the Mental Health Department at UHS, says that the going is slow at times. "Some managers, I think, are very open," she says, "while others sort of not their heads and then do whatever they want. It's like a creaking, old rusty machine...
...Erb says, though, that some frustration union members still feel with the work-place also rises out of a common perception that the joint councils are remote from the average worker...
...Erb says the councils need to publicize themselves more. "I'd say the average person has heard of the joint council but doesn't know who's on it, or what issues they discuss...