Over the last several weeks the sports media as covered the Brett Favre story with amazing detail and borderline obsession. Favre was retired and Aaron Rodgers was the starting Packer QB and all was good, but then Favre changed his mind, got reinstated, and was in the middle of a QB competition. Story done right.....WRONG......The Packers still don't want the future hall-of-fame Quarterback and trade him to the New York Jets. Now both Rodgers and Favre are NFL starters for their prospective and who knows maybe they will meet in the Superbowl, wouldn't that be something.
The media has now started backing away from the Favre story but their is still more to the story that I haven't heard anyone talk about yet. When Madden 09 chose Brett Favre to be the cover for the newest game yet to be released it was in honor of a great QB having just finished his career, and the Madden curse would get a year off. WRONG! Maybe the Jets should not have released QB Chad Pennington if Brett Favre will fall victim to this infamous curse made most famous when Michael Vick missed most of the 2004 season after appearing on the cover of Madden 04. Vick is not the only athlete to experience misfortune after appearing on this cover with a list of names including:
Shaun Alexander
Donovan McNabb
Vince Young
Daunte Culpepper
Marshall Faulk
I will not go into detail about these athletes experiences as coverman but they all experienced a little trouble in the corresponding year, some even longer. It remains to be seen if Favre will experience this strange, completely coincidental, truth of football.
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