A Look at the Madden Curse

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2002’s Madden cover featured Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper. Culpepper had an amazing debut taking the Vikings to the NFC Championship game against the New York Giants. However, the Vikings lost that game and the Giants went on to lose against the Ravens, who had beaten the Titans interestingly enough. However for Culpepper, nothing would be the same as the next year his team ended up 5-11. After that a series of trouble happened upon the Vikings through the years and Culpepper was traded to the Miami Dolphins where he was then released and sent off to the Oakland Raiders.



St. Louis Rams running back Marshall Faulk and had an outstanding four straight seasons of 1,300 and over rushing totals. Not to mention he went to the Super Bowl twice in a three year span. But in 2003 he was plastered on the cover of Madden and forever cursed with an ankle injury in 2002 that led to his first sub-1,000 rushing total and not to mention never making it back to the Super Bowl.



Michael Vick. In 2004, the Atlanta Falcon’s superstar quarterback was selected to be on the cover of Madden. His prowess and speed with his legs made him a quarterback like none before, oh and he could throw too. But after taking his team, a team that had failed to have a good season in a long time, to the wild card arena the year prior, he fractured his right fibula in a pre-season game that just so happened to be one day after the release of the game. After his long absence, Vick finally returned and would later leave his team again… this time to go to jail.



Ray Lewis, a man who is feared on the gridiron, was chosen for Madden 2005’s cover. A man who once accumulated six interceptions the year prior, failed to make one interception in 2004, the only time he failed to do so in his career. He later would suffer a torn right hamstring and the Ravens haven’t been the same since.

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