Many of you may recall that the Xbox 360 suffered from one incredibly irritating fault. Namely, it broke itself. A lot.

You might think that as a professional NFL player the prospect of appearing on the cover of EA Sports Madden football game might be up there as one of their greatest achievements. It hasn't been every star mind, in fact in 2012, Calvin 'Megatron' Johnson broke a 17 year old NFL record whilst also fronting the game. However, that might not be the case because of the supposed Madden curse, which has supposedly caused the careers of several of the games prominent cover stars to take a complete nose dive. The dreaded 'red ring of death' was a manufacturing issue which was a result of consoles not dealing with it's internal heating properly and eventually lead to a slow and painful death.We're clueless when it comes to America football, but CBS Sports offer a pretty decent explanation of how these sports stars careers went sideways if you fancy some further reading.