John Madden who has been chewing meat and explaining sports since I was a kid is taking this weekend off to spend time with his family.  Normally I would be ok with this but I’ve grown so accustomed to phrases like, “ah, See, look right here, see, and what happens, is, see, you got the QB, see, and he goes here, and then he goes there, and BOOM and that’s football.”

Who else is going to say bootleg all Sunday?

Madden who refuses to fly as planes are the work of the devil takes a bus to every game. His streak of consecutively called games ends at 476.  Weak. Over the past few weeks, “Madden went from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego last week; he would have had to return to Florida for this Sunday’s game at Tampa Bay. There’s no Sunday Night Football game the following weekend, so Madden would have then headed home to the Bay Area.”

The cover of Madden 2009.  Will the curse continue? 

If you’re unfamiliar with the Madden curse feel free to visit a website dedicated exclusively to “the curse:” www.maddencurse.net.

The commercial chronicling the start of Madden in 1990 to where it is today. 

How does Favre feel about gracing the cover?