The Madden Curse Continues

You can continue the list of the Madden Curse as Troy Polamalu has injured his knee in the first week of play.  This years Madden 2010 features Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald; a Madden first by having two stars on the cover.  I have been a believer of this curse however, I do hope that Larry doesn’t get injured as he was my number 1 pick for my fantasy team.

Polamalu has joined a 9 year curse adding him to the following list:

• 2002 -  Daunte Culpepper - Missed five games, shabby play.
• 2003 - Marshall Faulk - Missed 6 games and never reached the 1,000 yard mark again.
• 2004 - Michael Vick - Missed 11 games and broke his leg.
• 2005 - Ray Lewis - Missed 1 game.
• 2006 - Donovan McNabb - Missed 7 games.
• 2007 - Shaun Alexander - Missed 6 games and broke his foot.
• 2008 - Vince Young - Missed one game, shabby play.
• 2009 - Brett Favre - Missed 0 games, but really sucked for the Jets.
• 2010 - Troy Polamalu - Will miss 3 to 6 weeks with knee injury.

This is a pretty fascinating list and curse if I may say so myself.  We’ll have to wait and see if Larry falls victim, or if being plagued with the cover of Madden only curses one player pre year.