Madden's Curse Can't Touch Brett Favre!

For about 10 years, all you heard about players who were on the cover of Madden NFL Football games was that they would be cursed.

For the most part, that has been true, true enough that the second that people hear about their favorite players being considered as the cover-boy, they made their voices heard.

Fans of LaDainian Tomlinson have made multiple websites protesting putting LT on the cover, and when he declined the offer, he stated it was a "contract issue."

Madden 2001 featured former Tennessee Titan runningback, Eddie George, who is one of the few exceptions of the curse, as he had a decent, but not a great season.

Madden 2002 is where the curse started.

Cover-boy Daunte Culpepper was injured in week 12 of the 2001 season, and ended up having one of the worst years of his career, not including the one he is having right now with the Detroit Lions.

Madden 2003 featured the member of the "Greatest Show on Turf," Marshall Faulk. Faulk was eliminated in week 12, and got very limited carries for the remainder of the season. Their quarterback, Kurt Warner, went down in Week 7, which also accompanied the dreaded Super Bowl Curse.

Madden 2004 featured the speedy Michael Vick, who had blasted upon the scene in the NFL in 2001 and '02, after being drafted first overall by the Atlanta Falcons. Vick broke his leg in week 5 of the NFL season, and did not play for the rest of it.

Madden 2005 featured linebacker Ray Lewis, the only defensive player to be featured to this point, had one of his worst seasons, and suffered a season-ending injury the following year.

Madden 2006 had Donovan McNabb on it. He had the fewest starts of his NFL career in the regular season since his rookie year. Although, that also could be blamed upon the Super Bowl Curse.

Madden 2007 had the NFL's Most Valuable Player, Shaun Alexander on it. Alexander ended up not being able to stay healthy, and he had the worst season of his career.

Many speculated it was the Super Bowl Curse because Matt Hasselbeck was down for a large portion of the season.

Madden 2008 featured Vince Young, the speedy hurler out of the University of Texas. He was out for just one game, but he ended up throwing 17 interceptions and just nine touchdowns, and was unable to lead his team past the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Wild Card Game.

Now for Madden 2009, which has whom Jamie Dukes likes to call, Lord Favre.

Anyone who knows football knows that Brett Favre has almost every record that a QB could ever have, including consecutive starts, and they also know that his biggest cheerleader has been John Madden.

So can this be the reason that Brett Favre has had such success in his new team?

There have been only two other QB's in NFL history over the age of 38 to throw for over 1,000 yards and now there is Brett Favre.

He has turned his team from 4-12 to a playoff team this year, and no curse can bring him down apparently.