Madden Curse? What Madden Curse?

This year EA Sports has decided to give the finger to anyone that believes in the Madden Curse. They have decided to put someone on the cover that the Madden Curse will not be able to touch. Someone, who in my opinion, should have been on there YEARS ago. April 25, 2008 EA Sports announced the new cover boy of its next iteration in its popular Madden series. The cover boy of Madden 2009 is.....Brett Favre.

Yup. I can hardly believe it either.

So what does this mean??? Is the Madden Curse broken? Yes and no. Players that have graced the cover of Madden have generally failed to reproduce their success of their previous years. Well Brett Farve being retired, he has nothing to worry about. However unless EA Sports is going to make retired players as their "cover boys", I can assure you the curse is now PISSED! Whoever EA Sports will choose as the the Madden 2010 "cover boy", is going to be FUCKED!

Frankly, I think Archie Manning has something to do with this. He made sure Eli Manning didn't get drafted to the San Diego Chargers, and for some reason Eli isn't the cover boy on Madden 09. DAMN YOU ARCHIE MANNING!

Source: NBC Sports

FINALLY!!!

Well its official….Brett Favre has retired from the Green Bay Packers and the NFL after 17 years of playing.

Packers.Com has a list of records that Brett has accomplished:

Here's a list of those significant league records:

Most TD passes: 442
Favre surpassed Dan Marino's mark of 420 in Week 4 last season at Minnesota, with a 16-yard TD pass to Greg Jennings.

Most passing yards: 61,655
Favre connected with his old buddy Donald Driver to break Marino's mark of 61,361 yards at St. Louis last season in Week 15.

Most passing attempts: 8,758
Favre also broke this one last year in Week 4 at the Metrodome, and finished exactly 400 passes ahead of Marino (8,358).

Most wins by a starting QB: 160
Favre eclipsed John Elway's previous mark of 148 in Week 2 last season against the New York Giants. Including postseason, Favre won 172 games. Manning is tops among active QBs with 105 regular-season wins.

Most consecutive starts, quarterback: 253 (275 including playoffs)
The next-longest streak for a QB belongs to Manning, at 160 games (173 including playoffs) and counting. Among all players and documented streaks, Favre came up 17 games shy of Minnesota's Jim Marshall, who started 270 straight contests.

Most 3,000-yard passing seasons: 16
Marino ranks second on this list with 13.

Most consecutive 3,000-yard passing seasons: 16
Manning broke a second-place tie with Marino last season with his 10th in a row.

Most pass completions: 5,377
Favre surpassed Marino's 4,967 completions two seasons ago, with a pass to Carlyle Holiday against Detroit on Dec. 17, 2006, at Lambeau Field.

Most seasons with 30-plus TD passes: 8
Marino and Manning are both a distant second here with four each.

Most consecutive games with a TD pass, postseason: 18
Favre extended this by two more games last season. Once again, Marino is in second place with 13.

Most NFL MVP awards: 3
Six other players, the only active ones being quarterbacks Manning and Kurt Warner, have won the award twice. Favre was runner-up to Tom Brady in 2007 for a potential fourth MVP.

Retire already!!!

So Packers.Com think that they are comedians. They originally posted that Brett Favre has announced his retirement. Well it just turns out to be a mistake.

How the heck to make a mistake like that? Seriously. Unless someone broke in, hijacked the page, and took it over. But I seriously doubt that. My guess is that Brett Farve IS GOING to retire. They just uploaded the page a little too soon. Oops! Moron! You were supposed to do that AFTER the press conference.

In my honest opinion, Brett Favre NEEDS to retire. He's had 17 consistantly good seasons. His stats are awesome. He needs to do his body a favor and retire. How I don't think his talent needs to go to waste just yet. I think he needs to do a Jim Zorn, and become a coach. This guy has so much talent, that I think he would be deadly as a coach.

Source: The Sporting News