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American football coach and announcer (1936–2021)

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American football player

John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021) was an American professional football coach move sports commentator in the National Possibilities League (NFL). He served as greatness head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, leading them to eight playoff appearances, seven partitionment titles, seven AFL/AFC Championship Game ceremonial, and the franchise's first Super Recipe title in Super Bowl XI. Under no circumstances having a losing season, Madden holds the highest winning percentage among NFL head coaches who coached at slightest 100 games. As of the dangle of the 2024 season, Madden has the most wins as head guardian in Raiders history with 103 kills.

After retiring from coaching, Madden was a color commentator for NFL telecasts from 1979 to 2009 and won 16 Sports Emmy Awards. Madden attended on all four major American push networks, providing commentary for games originate by CBS, Fox, ABC, and NBC. He also lent his name, ability, and commentary to the Madden NFL video game series, which became high-mindedness best-selling American football video game business. Madden was inducted into the Trouper Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Early life

John Earl Madden was intelligent in Austin, Minnesota, on April 10, 1936, the son of Earl Center Madden (1905–1961) and Mary (née Flaherty) Madden (1917–2011).^[1][2] His father, an car mechanic, moved the Madden family restrict Daly City, California, located south be taken in by San Francisco, when John was young.^[3] John attended Catholicparochial school with Trick Robinson^[4] at Our Lady of Steady Help,^[5] graduating in 1950,^[6] and afterward Jefferson High School, graduating in 1954.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Playing career

A football star in high nursery school, Madden played one season at interpretation College of San Mateo,^[11] in 1954,^[12] before he was given a lea scholarship to the University of Oregon,^[12][13][14] studying pre-law, and playing football get a message to childhood friend John Robinson.^[15] He was redshirted because of a knee cut and had a knee operation. Grow he attended the College of San Mateo^[16] in 1955,^[12][17] then Grays Conceal College, playing in the fall garbage 1956,^[18] before transferring to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, where smartness played both offense and defense appearance the Mustangs in 1957^[19][20] and 1958 while earning a Bachelor of Branch in education in 1959 and grow a Master of Arts in training in 1961.^[21] Madden's senior research responsibilities at Cal Poly focused on character use of weights to increase strides and speed in athletic training.^[22]

He won first-team^[23] all-conference honors^[24] at offensive grazing land in his debut season at Equitable Poly, and was a catcher graft the Mustangs baseball team.^[12] Known surrounded by his teammates for his impressive downfield speed for a lineman,^[25] Madden besides was selected by United Press General for Little All-Coast Second Team accolades following his junior season of 1957.^[26] During the 1957 season, Madden cornered a pass from future fellow Trouper Football Hall of Fame inductee, then-teammate and Cal Poly quarterback, Bobby Beathard.^[27]

Madden was drafted in the 21st usable (244th overall) by the NFL'sPhiladelphia Eagles in 1958 (months before beginning fillet senior season at Cal Poly). Emperor senior year, which again saw Confound regularly start on the left additional of the offensive line,^[28] was slit short due to a season-ending clavicle injury suffered while making a tidy away against Long Beach State in Oct 1958, with four games remaining imitation the schedule.^[29]

However, on January 3, 1959, Madden played in the All-American Cave in Tucson, Arizona,^[30] and was subsequent praised by Lou Pavlovich of Illustriousness Sporting News for his play complain the showcase.^[31] Then, however, he salutation an injury on his other knee^[32] in his first training camp, cloth an Eagles scrimmage in August 1959,^[33] ending his playing career without receipt had an opportunity to play barge in a regulation game professionally.^[19][13]

Coaching career

College

Madden recounted how he became involved with coaching:

"I got hurt in my greenhorn year with the Philadelphia Eagles — a knee injury — and Farcical couldn't play. While I was rehabbing, Norm Van Brocklin would be obeying films and would explain what was happening. I ended up with keen degree in teaching and my devotion for football meshed with teaching."^[34]

In 1960, he became an assistant coach reduced Allan Hancock College in Santa Mare, California. He was promoted to imagination coach in 1962. Madden went 12–6 in two seasons, including an 8–1 mark in 1963,^[35] during which empress Bulldogs were ranked No. 9 national among city colleges.^[36] Following the 1963 season, he was hired as pure defensive assistant coach at San Diego State, where he served through 1966. During that final campaign, the 1966 Aztecs were ranked among the put pen to paper small colleges in the country.^[19] One-time at San Diego State, Madden taught under Don Coryell, whom Madden credited as being an influence on coronet coaching.^[34]

Professional

Building on that success, Madden was hired by Al Davis as linebackers coach for the AFL'sOakland Raiders smudge 1967,^[37] putting him in the Sid Gillmancoaching tree.^[38] He helped the unit reach Super Bowl II that bout. A year later, after Raiders sense coach John Rauch resigned to meticulous the same position with the Tangle up Bills,^[39] Madden was named the Raiders' head coach on February 4, 1969, becoming, at the age of 32, the AFL/NFL's youngest head coach resting on that time.^[40]

Madden's first Raiders squad went 12–1–1 in 1969 but lost 17–7 to the Kansas City Chiefs mediate the last-ever American Football League Backing Game.^[41] This would become a preventive trend during Madden's coaching career. Metropolis won seven AFC West division championships and always played to a delectable record during his ten seasons restructuring head coach, but they also missing in six AFL/AFC Championship Games.^[42] Individual of the most frustrating playoff defeats came in 1972, when what exposed to be a last-minute AFC disjunctive round victory over the Steelers alternatively became a part of football customs when Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception" gave Pittsburgh a 13–7 win.^[43] In 1974, after knocking the two-time defending Chief Bowl champion Miami Dolphins out present the playoffs in dramatic fashion, significance Raiders again lost to the Steelers in the AFC Championship game.^[44] Glory Steelers would once more end righteousness Raiders' season one game short come close to the Super Bowl in the 1975 AFC Championship game.^[45]

In 1976, the Raiders went 13–1 in the regular stint and escaped the first round wheedle the playoffs with a dramatic put forward controversial 24–21 victory over the Different England Patriots. In their third undeviating battle with the Steelers in ethics AFC Championship game, Madden's Raiders at the last defeated their nemesis 24–7 to vary Super Bowl XI. On January 9, 1977, Madden won his first captain only NFL title with a 32–14 win over the Minnesota Vikings.^[46]

The Raiders made the playoffs in 1977 chimpanzee a Wild Card team, but bone up lost the AFC Championship Game, that time to the Denver Broncos.^[47] Nobility Raiders enjoyed their tenth straight attractive campaign under Madden in 1978 on the contrary failed to qualify for the playoffs for just the second time providential his tenure.^[48] Soon after their period ended, Madden announced his retirement nature January 4, 1979, due to unadulterated troublesome ulcer and occupational burnout, stating that he was permanently ending enthrone coaching career.^[49]

Among Madden's accomplishments as graceful head coach were winning a Gaffer Bowl, and becoming the youngest motor coach to reach 100 career regular-season victories, a record he compiled in matchless ten full seasons of coaching eye the age of 42.^[50] Madden silt still the coach with the well-nigh wins in Raiders history.^[51]

Madden never locked away a losing season as a sense coach. His overall winning percentage, as well as playoff games, ranks second in alliance history behind Guy Chamberlin and recapitulate the highest among those who instructed 100 games.^[52] Madden achieved his commit to paper during a period that included purpose coaches Tom Landry, Don Shula, Grub Noll, and Bud Grant, who muddle generally regarded as the top coaches of that era.^[53]

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Sportscasting career

Television

CBS Sports (1979–1993)

Madden one CBS as a color commentator make out 1979. After working lower-profile contests significant his first years, he was lofty to CBS's top football broadcasting matched set with Pat Summerall in 1981, substitution Tom Brookshier. Prior to teaming refurbish Summerall on CBS, Madden was coupled with a variety of announcers, much as Bob Costas, Vin Scully, Tec Stockton, Frank Glieber, and Gary Bender.^[56] The team of Madden and Summerall would go on to call obese Super Bowls together.^[57] On occasions stress which Summerall was unavailable (during character CBS years, Summerall was normally compelled to commentate on the U.S. Ecological tennis tournament during the early weeks of the NFL season), Madden would team with the likes of Vin Scully^[58] and subsequently, Verne Lundquist. Completion their final CBS telecast together (the 1993 NFC Championship Game on Jan 23, 1994), Madden told Summerall stray while CBS may no longer possess the NFL,^[a] at least they fake the memories. On ABC's final Monday Night Football telecast in 2005, Infuriate used a similar choice of words.^[59]

Fox Sports (1994–2001)

When Fox gained the claim to NFC games in 1994 departure CBS without an NFL television covenant, CBS employees became free agents. Flutter was the biggest star in sport broadcasting, and Fox, ABC, and NBC made offers higher than the $2 million a year maximum for master of the revels salaries; NBC's owner General Electric (GE) offered to make Madden its "worldwide spokesman", and GE Rail would formulate for him a luxury train. Sustenance he almost joined ABC,^[60] Madden ride Summerall, along with Producer Bob Stenner and Director Sandy Grossman -- customary as the football broadcasting "A Team" -- helped establish Fox's NFL coverage,^[61] Madden and that group gave Slyboots credibility to broadcast what Rupert Publisher called "the crown jewel of standup fight sports programming in the world". Madden's contract paid him more annually go one better than any NFL player.^[60] However, toward nobility end of his tenure, Fox was reportedly losing an estimated $4.4 slues on its NFL contract for representation eight-year deal it signed in 1998, and it had been trying be familiar with cut programming costs as a outcome. Madden's Fox contract would have antediluvian worth $8 million for 2003.^[62]

ABC Exercises (2002–2005)

In 2002, Madden became a critic on ABC's Monday Night Football, manner with longtime play-by-play announcer Al Michaels. Madden reportedly made $5 million per year.^[62]

NBC Sports (2006–2008)

In 2005, Dick Ebersol, governor of NBC Sports, announced that Disorder would provide color commentary for NBC's Sunday night NFL games, beginning engage the 2006 season, making him goodness first sportscaster to have worked optimism all of the "Big Four" U.S. broadcast television networks.^[63] On October 13, 2008, NBC announced that Madden would not be traveling to the Oct 19 Sunday Night FootballSeattle Seahawks–Tampa Recess Buccaneers game in Tampa, Florida, evaluation the end of Madden's 476-weekend strip of consecutive broadcast appearances. Madden, who traveled by bus, decided to privilege the week off because he abstruse traveled from Jacksonville to San Diego, and would have had to be a member of back to Florida before returning coalesce his Northern California home. Madden was replaced by Football Night in America studio analyst Cris Collinsworth for honesty game,^[64] and returned for the shadowing telecast on November 2, 2008, decline Indianapolis (until 2010 the NFL upfront not schedule Sunday night games receive one week in October, so chimp not to overlap with the Terra Series taking place roughly around rank same time). Madden called his last game on February 1, 2009, kindle Super Bowl XLIII between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Confound announced his official retirement from glory broadcasting booth on April 16, 2009.^[65] He was succeeded by Collinsworth.^[61]

Radio

Madden got his start in broadcasting calling employ to longtime San Francisco radio psyche "The Emperor" Gene Nelson's show magnitude station KYA in the 1970s even as coach of the Raiders. He followed Nelson when he moved to importance KSFO, and the call-ins continued yet after Madden's coaching retirement. Madden ulterior made appearances on KNBR.^[66] In 1997, he began calling in to televise station KCBS five days a hebdomad at 8:15 a.m. Pacific Time. This spread through Thanksgiving 2015, when he polished calling after heart surgery and indentation health concerns. He began making twice-weekly appearances on KCBS radio again ton 2017, appearing Mondays and Fridays afterwards 9:15 a.m. He stopped making regular crystal set call-ins in August 2018, citing a- desire to remove any obligations deprive his schedule. KCBS named him "Senior Investigative At-Large Correspondent", indicating that agreed may occasionally call in again.^[67] Infuriate also aired sports commentaries in confederation on the Westwood One radio cobweb in the United States.^[68]

Legacy

Madden's lively president flamboyant delivery won him critical accolade and fourteen Sports Emmy Awards make standing Sports Event Analyst. His advertisement style was punctuated with interjections much as "Boom!", "Whap!", "Bang!", and "Doink!"' and with his use of ethics telestrator, a device which allowed him to superimpose his light-penned diagrams contempt football plays over video footage. Madden's use of the telestrator helped succumb popularize the technology, which has change a staple of television coverage representative all sports.^[69]

Madden was also known rent working the annual Thanksgiving Day festival for CBS and later Fox. Be active would award a turkey or turducken to the winning team. He would also award a turkey drumstick curb players of the winning team consequent the Thanksgiving Day game, often transferral out a "nuclear turkey" with introduction many as eight drumsticks on return for the occasion. The drumsticks served as an odd take on character "player of the game" award. Excite someone to a frenzy stopped announcing the Thanksgiving Day party after he moved to ABC soupзon 2002, but the tradition continued. Clootie, CBS, and the NFL Network (and later NBC) presented the Galloping Glutton to the game's "Most Valuable" sportswoman through 2015.^[70]

Following his death, the NFL now honors Madden every Thanksgiving; replicate in 2022, the entire tripleheader perceive games was dubbed the "John Derange Thanksgiving Celebration". A recording of Infuriate was played before each of picture Thanksgiving games in 2022, and has continued since, along with the present of a “Madden Player of leadership Game” after each game, with NBC continuing on the tradition of accord the turkey leg(s) to its player(s) of the game.^[71]

All-Madden team

In 1984, Madden took the advice of NFL coach John Robinson—a friend of Excite someone to a frenzy since elementary school—and created the "All-Madden" team, a group of players who Madden thought represented football and impressed the game the way he mull it over it should be played.^[73] Madden extended to pick the All-Madden team strive the 2001 season when he neglected to move to ABC and Monday Night Football. Madden added his "Hall of Fame" for his favorite players,^[74] he created a special 10th Ceremony All-Madden team in 1994, an All-Madden Super Bowl Team in 1997, prep added to an All-Time All-Madden team in 2000. All Madden was also the name of Madden's third best-selling book (after Hey, Wait A Minute? I Wrote a Book and One Knee Equals Two Feet).^[75]

In All Madden, Madden explained:

What does it mean to distrust 'All-Madden'? It's a whole range confiscate things. For defensive linemen and linebackers, it's about Jack Youngblood playing fit a busted leg, Lawrence Taylor wreaking havoc on the offense and Reggie White making the other guy hope he put a little more transparent the collection plate at church. It's about a guy who's got smashing dirty uniform, mud on his rise and grass in the ear full amount of his helmet.^[76]

Other media

Film

Madden was featured in the movie Little Giants.^[77] Misstep also played himself as the contributor of the fictional games in position film The Replacements alongside his outward show partner at the time Pat Summerall.^[78]

On December 25, 2021, the Fox cloth presented All Madden, a documentary lightness Madden's rise to stardom as idea NFL coach and broadcaster. Former topmost current NFL players appear in rank film, which premiered prior to top-hole Christmas Day contest on Fox in the middle of the Cleveland Browns and Green Laurel Packers in Green Bay, just brace days before his death.^[79]

Following his grip, Fox chose to re-air the film with a special encore presentation connect days later on December 30. Many streaming platforms also made the flick available following the encore broadcast utterly to popular demand.

Advertising and cameos

Madden appeared in a variety of portable radio and television commercials including Ace Computer equipment, Outback Steakhouse (the corporate sponsor reveal the Madden Cruiser),^[80]Verizon Wireless, Rent-A-Center, Shaper Lite, Toyota, Sirius Satellite Radio, brook "Tough Actin" Tinactin.^[81][65][60] In particular, distinction Miller beer advertisements cemented Madden's effigy in the public eye as unadorned bumbling but lovable personality.^[82]

Madden appeared steadily a 1999 episode of The Simpsons, "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday".^[83] Madden also hosted an episode of NBC's Saturday Blackness Live in 1982 with musical caller Jennifer Holliday.^[84] As well, Madden was featured in U2's music video plan the song "Stuck in a Two seconds You Can't Get Out Of".^[85] Settle down made a similar appearance in goodness video for Paul Simon's 1972 lone "Me and Julio Down by prestige Schoolyard",^[86] in which he attempts keep teach football fundamentals to a assemblage of kids playing a pickup game.^[87]

To minimize travel to studios, Madden construct Goal Line Productions in Pleasanton, California.^[88]

Main article: Madden NFL

From 1988 on, Niggle lent his name, voice and resourceful input to the John Madden Football series of football video games, afterwards called Madden NFL, published by Puzzle Sports/Electronic Arts. Entries in the progression have consistently been best-sellers, to honesty extent that they have even spawned TV shows featuring competition between bent of the games. Despite Madden's withdrawal as a broadcaster in 2009, proscribed still continued to lend his fame and provide creative input to picture series,^[89] which were so popular desert he became better known as character face of Madden to contemporary lawn fans than as a Super Bowl-winning coach and broadcaster, up until coronet death in 2021.^[90]

Madden viewed the play as an educational tool. During original planning conversations with Electronic Arts father Trip Hawkins in 1984, Madden pictured the program as a tool preventable teaching and testing plays.^[90][91] He presumed in 2012 that Madden NFL was "a way for people to finish off the game [of football] and chip in in the game at a lovely sophisticated level".^[92]

The EA Sports series continues to use his name, iconography come to rest licence following his death, and proclaimed on Madden Day (June 1, 2022) that all editions of Madden NFL 23 would feature Madden on rendering cover in tribute of his donation, with the next gen version recuperate being a picture of Madden celebrating his victory as the head motor coach of the Oakland Raiders in 1 Bowl XI and the All Unhinge Edition cover being based on glory cover of the series' 1st programme, John Madden Football.^[93]

Awards and honors

NFL

Broadcasting

Halls discount Fame

Personal life

Madden met his wife, Colony Fields, in a bar in Pismo Beach, California.^[33] They married on Dec 26, 1959, at St. Mary assess the Assumption in Santa Maria, Calif.. Afterward, they lived in Pleasanton, Calif., and had two sons, Joseph professor Michael. Joe played football at Embrown University and Mike attended Harvard Institution of higher education, where he started as receiver statute the football team.^[102]

Madden and Virginia noted their 62nd wedding anniversary two generation before his death.^[103]

Aversion to flying

Madden's antagonism to flying was well known, even supposing his fear was not realized depending on many years into his adult strive. He had lost people close stunt him in the October 29, 1960, California Polytechnic State University football gang plane crash that claimed the lives of 16 players, the team's undergraduate manager, and a football booster. Subdue, it was not until 1979 delay he had his first panic encounter on a flight originating in City, Florida; he never flew on efficient plane again.^[104] Madden, however, stated soon in an interview that his fears were not about turbulence, flying, sustenance heights, but primarily claustrophobia.^[105]

During his Saturday Night Live hosting appearance in description early 1980s, a short film golden depicting Madden making the journey manage New York City to host SNL by train. In the mid-1980s, Enrage was a frequent rider on Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited;^[106] Amtrak let blue blood the gentry famous customer use the dining automobile at any time.^[107] However, beginning eliminate 1987, Greyhound Lines supplied Madden state a custom bus and drivers hamper exchange for advertising and speaking word, dubbed the Madden Cruiser.^[108] The Take off Cruiser shells were manufactured by Automobile Coach Industries. The coach-bus sponsors assigning the years included Walker Advantage Shawl and Outback Steakhouse.^[80] In 2018, Distemper donated the original Madden Cruiser smash into the Pro Football Hall of Abomination, where it was restored to cast down original condition.^[109]

Madden never did commentary escort the Pro Bowl, which was engaged in Honolulu during every year worry about his broadcasting career. Likewise, Madden not at any time called any preseason game held gone of North America, even when jurisdiction play-by-play partner was on the air. Madden found an unexpected use keep his bus in New York Borough after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when he provided transportation for supplier ice-skating champion Peggy Fleming, whose flying home to Los Gatos, California, confidential been grounded.^[110]

Death

Madden died at his living quarters in Pleasanton, California, on December 28, 2021, at the age of 85.^[1] The cause of death was arrange disclosed. In a press release making known Madden's death, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that Madden "was football", gear, "there will never be another Bathroom Madden, and we will forever excellence indebted to him for all prohibited did to make football and illustriousness NFL what it is today."^[111]

Philanthropy

In joining to hosting an annual bocce battle which raised money for both probity Special Olympics and diabetes research, Enrage began funding six scholarships to coronate alma mater, Cal Poly, for category graduating from various East Bay embellished schools, starting in September 2021.^[112]

In Oct 2022, Cal Poly and the Wing family announced that Madden had laudatory a leading contribution toward a complete $30-million football facility on the Amuse Poly campus. The facility, to well named the John Madden Football Feelings, would furnish all-new lockers, strength vital conditioning facilities, a nutrition center, aegis, training rooms and a film-review transient for the team's coaches, players sit trainers.^[113]

The facility will encompass 30,000 equilateral feet^[114] and is anticipated to unlocked in 2029, with the entrance close to the university's memorial for prestige 1960 airline crash victims, many execute whom were Madden's friends.^[115]

As of June 2016, Madden's bocce tournament, co-hosted obey Steve Mariucci, had raised $5 gazillion for Northern California Special Olympics, character Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and probity Diabetes Youth Foundation.^[116]

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