Recovering from the cover jinx

Shaun Alexander has been medically cleared to practice this week, meaning that he may return to game action for the first time since week 3. This is good news to fantasy football owners like me who have Alexander on their team. Alexander has been itching to get back, but one thing he won’t be able to do is reverse the curse of the Madden cover boy. Even if Alexander rushes for 100 yards and 3 touchdowns a game for the rest of the season, there is no denying that the curse lives on for another year. This is not the first season that people believed that the player on the cover of the Madden video game was cursed, as evidenced by this 2003 CNN article. Curse or not, I just hope Alexander can play well when he returns.