Madden Curse! #43 MCL Sprain

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Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33

Without getting into a whole discussion on statistics and probabilities, let's just say this isn't a real good comparison.

Lotus is making an extreme comparison, but he's correct. If there was a Madden curse, something would have happened to Ray Lewis in 2004, but nothing happened until the next year.

Ergo, no one's cursed, but if you pick a player coming off an exceptional year, isn't their generally a pretty good chance the player will be banged up the next year. Polumalu could return in Week 5, and if he does so, he'll probably make the pro bowl. So how cursed is he really?

It's a bullshit idea because no one ever defines what is supposed to happen to the Madden cover athlete. Is it supposed to be a season ending injury? Decline in performance? Because one or both of those things happen to 90% of superstars in this league.

Considering that the last Madden cover athlete to really take a major injury was Vick in 2003, it's probably time that we let go of this silly idea. Unless we're going to attribute his felony to the Madden curse as well. I mean, why stop here?