...Not like swear words or "Drats, you meddling kids foiled my plans" curses. I mean the mummy's curse, Curse of the Black Pearl, or curse of the Bambino. I mean don't touch my treasure chest or else you end up like "White Man from Town" ("Thinner" - good movie look it up) type curses.

They real ya'll. Let me break it down.

The two most powerful wizard/warlocks of our time who dare do there voodoo out in public for all to see are John Madden and Bob Costas.

I know they look harmless enough, but don't be fooled! Clark Kent was wild soft if you ain't know no better, son.

First Madden.  You may have heard the whispers of the "Madden Cover Jinx."  It's hardly a secret! Do the knowledge people! Since NFL players began to grace the cover of the Madden NFL games, there have been a coincidental series of misfortunes that befell the product's cover-athletes. In the 2002 edition of the game, quarterback Daunte Culpepper appeared on the cover and then suffered an injury plagued year in which his stats fell off. Marshall Faulk was on the 2003 cover and the following year his stats dropped sharply compared to his prior season. In '04, Michael Vick suffered a broken fibula during the preseason THE DAY AFTER the game came out. Ray Lewis was on the '05 cover and he did not record an interception for the first time in his career. Coverboy of the 2006 game was Donovan McNabb and he injured his chest in week 1 of 2006. And then last week, Shaun Alexander, who's on the '07 cover, fractured his foot against the Giants. We'll see how good of a year a RUNNING back with a broken FOOT has!! Clear enough?

Now Costas. I've been on to him since '96.  That year he was the primary on air voice for the Olympic Games and every time he made a prediction or declared a winner it would fall apart in unlikely fashion.  He would say something like: "All she has to keep is keep her balance for 6 seconds. That shouldn't be hard at all since she hasn't fallen since she was 2."  Well next thing you know, little girl go boom, everybody's hugging and crying, and Costas gives his "We are all stunned by this sudden turn of events" speech or some variation of it.  Never fails to this day.  Other announcers try to do it, like mentioning how a basketball player hasn't missed all day, only to have him miss his very next shot, but no one is as consistent or powerful as Costas. I'm for real.

We need these guys using their powers for the greater good.  Put the little Korean dude on the Madden Cover.  Have Bob Costas show up at the White House press conference and declare in a hushed tone that "Osama Bin Laden hasn't been caught yet, and there's no reason to believe he ever will."  That would so work. Call the FBI.