Blog: There's a Simple Explanation for the Madden Curse

Must we? Yes. In the interest of putting this peculiar obsession to bed, preferably with a stake through its heart - there is a Madden Curse. It is the bastard son of the NFL Curse and the Media Curse, and therefore, not a curse at all.

The 13th installment of John Madden's EA Sports videogame features Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson, and Madden turned up yesterday to dispel the whole notion of the player appearing on the box being doomed to injury and, probably ignominy. "I was on the cover for several years, and I never once even pulled a hamstring," Madden quipped to the Detroit Free Press, before noting that football is a violent sport in which players regularly get injured.

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