What would a blog about superstitions be without the well known “Madden Curse?” Madden has become one of the most popular video games for Xbox and Play Station 3 all around the world. Boys and even girls (hell yes I play Madden) everywhere wait in line outside local stores where these game will be sold at exactly midnight. Now obviously we all get joy out of making our own draft picks and seeing the excitement of a professional football game through our own video game consuls. We can argue with our friends about whose picks are better, who has the best defense, and who is going to do the best touch down dance in the end zone. To us this is all good fun and these players aren’t real….so they can’t get affected by the game right? I mean it is just a game….right?
There is this big conspiracy that which ever player is on the cover of the newest Madden each year, something bad always happens to him that following season whether it be bad playing, and injury, or a sudden change in attitude. The very first Madden game came out in 1990 and until 1999 John Madden himself was only on the cover of his. The very first player to be on the cover of Madden was Garrison Hearst who at the time was on the San Francisco 49ers….Hearst suffered a broken ankle in the divisional playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons. The severe break required Hearst to miss two full NFL seasons. Pretty odd that the first person ever to be on the cover of Madden suffered such an injury but at this point it was just a coincidence….As the years have gone on, and new players make the cover of John Maddens famous game, so do the injuries and unfortunate fatalities.
2000 Barry Sanders: He suddenly retired in July before the start of the 1999 season.
2001 Eddie George: Failed to break 1000 yards and Tennessee missed the playoffs going 7-9.
2002 Dante Culpepper: Missed 4 games with injury, threw for 1300 less yards and 19 less touchdowns then in 2000. Minnesota's worst record since 1984.
2003 Marshall Faulk: supposidly this was Faulk's worst season since 1996.
2004 Michal Vick: Missed the first 11 games because of a broken leg
2005 Ray Lewis: Numbers were down from the previous years in his career.
2006 Donavan McNabb: After week 9, he suffered a hernia and was not the same for the entire season. The Eagles finished 6-10, in last place, and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
2007 Shaun Alexander: missed 6 regular season games with a broken foot.
2008 Vince Young: lost to the Chargers in the first round of the playoffs.
2009 Brett Favre: injured his throwing arm, the season collapsed quickly. Favre threw 6 less touch downs and 7 more interceptions then in 2007. The Jets finished 9-7 after starting 8-3 and missed the playoffs.
2010 Larry Fitzgerald AND Troy Polamalu…….TO BE DETERMINED! uh ohhh…
If I were these guys….I wouldn’t want my face on the game of Madden no matter how amazing I am at football. It is pretty ironic but also pretty scary.
-Meagan
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