The Madden Curse has struck again, and this time it hit a man thought untouchable.

Every year since Madden 2000, the athlete featured on the game’s cover has fallen from grace, usually due to injury. It happened to Faulk, Vick, and Culpepper. It laid low Ray Lewis, Donovan McNabb and Shaun Alexander. It even gave Vince Young his first career game missed due to injury. It’s called the Madden Curse.

Perhaps it’s all superstition, or perhaps the super-stars who make the cover are just unable to maintain the level of greatness that got them on the cover. Either way you look at it, the Madden Curse is a disturbing trend.

It looked like the curse would be put to rest in an ingenious way in 2009. Put a retired guy on the cover. But the fabled quarterback Brett Favre just couldn’t stay retired. And, now that he’s playing for the Jets, will he suffer the same fate? Will his glorious resurrection be heralded as a Phoenix rising? Or will he merely burn out like so many superstars who can’t give up the game?

Or has the curse already been cast? Hit the jump for some superstition speculation. Read more…

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Farve is a Green Bay Packer no more. The veteran QB has been traded to the NY Jets, and NFL Network’s Adam Schefter confirmed that Brett will report to camp for the team.

I am pretty certain that this will mark the first time a Madden cover will feature a player who is no longer on that team’s roster when the season starts. If you’re a Packer fan who is planning on picking up the game in a few days time, my suggestion is to bring a big fat Sharpie and go to town on the cover.

By the way, at the time of this article, the Jets website was down. Quality organization. If they can’t even keep their site on its feet, what chance does Brett have?

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