"Let's face it, there hasn't been much to cheer about with the Atlanta Falcons in almost a decade. We've had seven straight seasons of missing the playoffs, and the way this season is going, that number may extend to eight. It seems like the team is always competitive in the division up until mid season every year, and then the patented Falcons' second half collapse happens, derailing all hopes of a successful campaign."
"Well... maybe the issue was right in front of our disgruntled fan faces all along. The Falcons are just cursed. Curses are a staple in major league sports. The curse of the Bambino sought to explain the Red Sox' 86-year championship drought following the controversial sale of baseball legend Babe Ruth, and was finally lifted when the Sox won the 2004 World Series."
"Anyone who was into sports games in the early 2000s knows there was only one player who was quite literally unstoppable; this was Michael Vick in the 2004 edition of Madden. Vick's Pro Bowl performance the year prior earned him the title of cover athlete for the game that year. Not even 100 overall Shaquille O'Neal in the third installment of NBA 2k was as dominant as Vick was in that year's Madden."
The Atlanta Falcons have endured seven straight seasons missing the playoffs and risk extending that streak to eight, with recurring midseason competitiveness followed by second-half collapses that derail campaigns. Fans and observers trace prolonged team failures to broader organizational problems and to supernatural explanations in the form of sports curses. Historical curse examples include the Curse of the Bambino, which corresponded with the Red Sox' 86-year title drought until 2004, and the purported Bobby Layne curse on the Detroit Lions after his 1958 trade. Video-game superstition surrounding Michael Vick's 2004 Madden cover and dominance in the game also feeds narratives of jinxes and bad luck.
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