Peyton Hillis beats Michael Vick for the EA Madden 12 cover

Today on ESPN's "Sportsnation", it was announced that Cleveland Browns RB Peyton Hillis had 66% of the votes as Michael Vick had 34% of the votes in the "Race to Grace" for gracing their presence on the cover of EA's Madden 12 football video game. Not to be a "Debby Downer" but the last time a running back graced the cover of a Madden game was in 2007 and it was Shaun Alexander and we all know how his career turned out after his picture appeared on the boxes. Let's hope Peyton does not fall victim to the ever dreadful "Madden Curse".

LET IT BE KNOWN ON THIS VERY DAY I WILL GO OUT ON A LIMB AND SAY THAT THIS YEAR THE MADDEN CURSE WILL BE REVERSED BECAUSE PEYTON HILLIS WILL BREAK THE TREND AND BECOME THE FIRST BROWNS PLAYER TO BE NAMED AN NFL MVP, ATTEND THE 2011-12 SUPER BOWL (as a fan-LOL), NOT BE BUSTED FOR HGH OR WEED OR FEMALE FERTILITY DRUGS, AND ACTUALLY ENJOY BEING A CLEVELAND BROWNS FOOTBALL PLAYER.

You've been served!

THE BEST DAMN MADDEN FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM that stunk in the NFL.

THE BEST DAMN MADDEN FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM that stunk in the NFL.

Now that the 2010 NFL season has been completed I find myself already dealing with some minor "football withdraw" symptoms. The outlook for the 2011 season is up in the air as the owners and players try to come to terms of the business side of the game. So I've decided to give in to my football cravings and that I was going to create the "BEST DAMN MADDEN FANTASY FOOTBALL TEAM that stunk in the NFL". So I have created a list of two teams for Madden 2010 and I will be inputting the individual players ratings/points based upon their first year in the NFL stats. I may also consider using their last year of college stats as the basis for their current player ratings. Here is the listing for team A:

Quarterbacks:

Dave Klinger
Dave Brown
Akili Smith

Runningbacks:

Blair Thomas
Siran Stacy
Curtis Enis
Ron Dayne

FULLBACKS:

Roosevelt Potts
Dick Leftridge


WIDE receivers:

Kevin Dyson
Limas Sweed
Hart Lee Dykes
Troy Williamson

TightENDs:

Johnny Mitchell
Ken MacAfee

CENTER:
Eric Ghiaciuc
Ethan Albright

GUARDS:
Everett McIver
Kevin Allen

TACKLES:
Tony Mandarich
Kenyetta Walker
Eugene Chang

DEFENSE

DEFENSIVE ENDS:

Courtney Brown
Eric Curry
Andre Wadsworth


DEFENSIVE TACKLE:

Steve Emtman
Jimmy Kennedy
Ryan Sims


LINEBACKERS:

"Your Mom"
Trev Alberts
Brian Bosworth
Aundray Bruce


CORNERbacks:
Michael Booker
Bruce Pickens
Erik McMillan
Otis Smith


SAFETY:

C.C. Brown


KICK RETURNERS:

Ki-Jana Carter
Lawrence Phillips


PUNT RETURNER:

Peter Warrick


KICKER:

Happy Feller
John Lee

PUNTER:
Matt Dodge

This will complete team A: Polk High. Over the next few days I'll put the finishing touches on team B and post them up here as well. Is there anyone you can think of that should be added to the list? Shout em out!

The Madden curse strikes again

Strong Safety Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers sprained his MCL in the season opener against the Tennessee Titans. Folklore legend has it that when at the end of the NFL season the best player usually ends up being the coverboy for the EA game, "Madden Football". Since then, certain players have experienced a decline in performance, usually due to an injury or just poor play period. For example:

2000 Barry Sanders- Retired suddenly
2001 Eddie George- Missed 1000 yds season and Tennessee missed the playoffs
2002 Daunte Culpepper- Culpepper missed 4 games with injury and worse stats ever
2003 Marshall Faulk- Rushed for 430 less yards and had 4 less TDs compared to 2001
2004 Michael Vick- Vick missed the first 11 games with a broken leg
2006 Donovan Mcnabb- Mcnabb suffered a hernia and was lost for the season
2007 Shaun Alexander- Out for 6 games with a broken foot
2009 Brett Favre- a torn bicep injury which affected the last 5 games of the year
2010 Troy Polamalu- MCL sprain....who knows what will happen.

OH MY GOD!!! IT'S BRETT FAVRE!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhh yessss.......Mr. Brett "I can do no wrong" Favre has come out of his retirementive ways yet again to show us that an old man can truly take another team down the historic path to the holy "Super Bowl". What happens if this experiment fails? What if Favre does not get his daily Metamucil and becomes "backed up"? It's bad enough that Brett Favre qualifies for the "cash for clunkers" program. If Favre were to become injured that means Sage will come in and try to rescue the team until Sage comes to his senses and realizes that he is not the Jedi Apprentice everyone expects him to be since Favre is his Jedi Master. Sage will quietly go and sit down on the bench and begin to suck his thumb and look for a ball to fumble after realizing his skills are feeble. This in turn will regulate the quarterback position to the one....the only.....BOOTY MASTER aka JOHN DAVID BOOTY (Tarvaris Jackson will be a part of the nation's unemployment percentage by Friday anyhow). However back to Brett Favre (he is the news)! What are some things that might be bigger than Brett Favre's ego? Let's see:

A. An extremely large man (500lbs) jumping belly first into a children's swimming pool?
B. Martha Stewart's ego?
C. John Madden's ego?
D. Paris Hilton's ego?
E. The Pope's ego?
F. The last turd that came out of Childress?
G. Nancy Grace's ego?
H. The Eiffel Tower?
I. Niagara Falls?
J. Scott Boras's ego?
K. Bigfoot?
L. Someones ex-wife mother in law?
M. John Holmes?
N. Ron Jeremy?
O. Beckett Sports?
P. Topps?

Unfortunately none of the above mentioned item's can compare to Favre's ego. Did they sign Favre so we could hear John Madden talk about Brett all the time (it's his mancrush)? Will Brett Favre get to have his revenge? Will Brett Favre zigged when he should've zagged? Will Brett Favre ever leave the NFL? Not soon enough.