Published January 4, 2011

Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork appears on the cover of next week's Sports Illustrated.

The Globe reports:

In this issue, NFL writer Peter King says the Patriots look “like a better team than the 2007 team that entered the Super Bowl 18–0.” He goes on to predict the Patriots will beat the Green Bay Packers 30-24 in the Super Bowl.

This is either good news or bad news, depending on how much you believe in the SI cover jinx, which holds that teams or athletes featured on Sports Illustrated’s cover are destined to fail.