Wahrscheinlich hat er doch mehr Angst vor dem Curse als er/man offiziell zugibt 
Und da es in der Öffentlichkeit natürlich etwas dämlich/abergläubisch wirkt, wenn man deswegen sowas absagt, wird eben eine andere Ausrede erfunden 
Etwas schräg ist auch noch ein anderer Madden Sachverhalt, der auf PFT steht:
ODD FACT ABOUT THE MADDEN COVER
While we're skirting the fringes of potentially controversial subjects that potentially could get us fired if we didn't own the place, a reader recently pointed out to us an odd fact regarding the Madden NFL video game franchise.
Of all of the players who have appeared on the cover of the game, none of them is white.
Not that we have a problem with that. Obviously, most of the players in the NFL aren't white. But considering that quarterbacks like Peyton Manning and Brett Favre and Tom Brady have performed at a high level during the years since 1999 in which the series has placed the image of a player on the cover, it's weird that none of them have ever made the cut.
Especially since the guy after whom the game is named, John Madden, typically reacts like the first shot out of a roman candle when any of those three above-mentioned names is mentioned in his presence.
We don't know what this fact means, and we don't think it even means anything. In the past, the company that makes the Madden game (EA Sports) has had white players like Carson Palmer and Joey Harrington on the cover of the college version of the Madden game.
So we think it's a coincidence. Given Vince Young's presence on the cover of Madden 2008 it's a nine-year coincidence, but it's a coincidence nonetheless.
