Breaking News: John Madden Retires
by ifuwannacrownem on Apr 16, 2009 10:17 AM CDT
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PrintThe story first broke out of ESPN. NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol has announced that NBC Sunday Night Football color commentator John Madden has decided to call it quits.
Madden, who coached the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl victory, has had his fingerprints all over the NFL landscape for over forty years As a player, head coach, and successful commentator who most notably teamed up with Pat Summerall and Al Michaels.
He's also staked his claim to pop culture where he was a popular pitchman for products. He was the subject to comedian Frank Calliendo's popular sketches, and his name will forever be linked to the biggest video game franchise of all time in the Madden series. Madden will be replaced in the booth by Cris Collinsworth.
This also brings back a rumor that died a little while back: Is Al Davis trying to bring John Madden back to the Raiders?
His retirement also confirms that Brett Favre will not unretire.
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Sunday night football...
just got a little more tolerable. They just need to cut down the studio crew from 17 guys to 2 or 3 max.
All they need to do now is...
Get rid of Faith Hill for the opening song!!!
Unreasonable people make life difficult...
by WisBearsFan34 on Apr 16, 2009 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Hell yuh!
Get Slipknot to do it. Or Mystikal. That be DOPE!
Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!
by ifuwannacrownem on Apr 16, 2009 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions
How about the Ghetto Boys?
Or 50 Cent & Eminem?
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Geto* Boys
That’s some dark music right there…
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Yeah, I love it.
And you are correct with the spelling, wasn’t sure if anyone would no what I was talking about if I spelled it right.
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Hey, I know my way around the music block a little bit :)
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I guess so, I'm impressed.
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Love the Geto Boys
Their stuff from Office Space rocks. I’d love some ‘Still’ for the SNF opening.
by Sam Householder on Apr 17, 2009 9:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Die mf , die mf , still fool.....
I walk around town with a frown on my face
f**k the whole world I’m gonna catch a murder case
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I'll miss hearing the old codger.
Like him or not, no one can deny his presense and impact on the NFL. Thanksgiving Day will not be the same… :)
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His impact on the NFL
Does not make him a good announcer. He was a football genius but he’d gotten too old to be announcing.
Definitely
I got tired of listening to him talk about plays that weren’t actually happening. And any time a game got one sided, forget it. It just turned into a three hour b.s. session between him and Michaels. This is a good year for us. We get Cutler and lose Favre and Favre’s pimp all in one offseason. I’m just dreading the day that Ray Lewis retires, cause you know one of the networks will put his obnoxious ass on the air. And if they pair him with Deion, I’ll have to smash my tv.
"Well, we didn't block real good but we made up for it by not tackling."
- John McKay
Madden was retired 4 years ago... he just didn't know it.
"You win because of the quarterback. We have to get that position stabilized. We're fixated on that." -- Jerry Angelo (12.30.2008)
Jerry Angelo trades for Jay Cutler! (4.2.2009)
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I think he finally decided to retire once he knew for sure that
Favre was not coming back. He had a serious man crush on the guy.
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Apr 16, 2009 10:31 AM CDT reply actions
Did ya read the last sentence?
Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!
by ifuwannacrownem on Apr 16, 2009 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
"Favre and I have tons of activity's planned this summer."
"I guess I can’t do anything if you’re just irrational, but to point it out and move on."
- fundamentallysound
He's got to get Favre ready for the booth!
Michaels and Farve for SNF
Favre just needs some schooling on the telestrator, catch phases/sounds(ie boom, tur-duck-en), and trying to figure out who other than himself to compare quarterbacks to.
And hey if Aikmen can do it you know that Farve would be better.
Unreasonable people make life difficult...
by WisBearsFan34 on Apr 16, 2009 1:07 PM CDT up reply actions
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Only one word to describe that...
Awesome!
Unreasonable people make life difficult...
by WisBearsFan34 on Apr 16, 2009 1:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I love Collinsworth
I think he’s a closet Bears fan.
Think With Your Dipstick Jimmy!
by ifuwannacrownem on Apr 16, 2009 11:32 AM CDT up reply actions
I would much rather listen to Madden than Collinsworth.
This guy Collinsworth drives me f**kin’ nuts.
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by Haightminow on Apr 16, 2009 12:26 PM CDT up reply actions
He's an offense guy
What good was he supposed to say?
Because when it comes to sports, we die harder than Bruce Willis.
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 16, 2009 5:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Really?
I like him a lot. He’s smart. Manages to make a good point without repeating himself.
Basically all the things Madden hasn’t done in years.
Because when it comes to sports, we die harder than Bruce Willis.
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 16, 2009 5:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah My Criteria for a good announcer
Is do they teach me something I don’t already know and I think Collinsworth does that effectively.
by Sam Householder on Apr 16, 2009 5:04 PM CDT up reply actions
My criteria is pretty basic
1) They aren’t Dick Stockton and 2) They remember which game they’re supposed to be talking about.
I depend a lot on play by play to follow action because of my vision. Madden was brutal because he was always at least a play behind. Dick Stockton forgets which stadium he’s at and then can’t pronounce anyone’s name.
Collinsworth always adds something interesting and keeps up with the game currently going on.
Because when it comes to sports, we die harder than Bruce Willis.
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 16, 2009 5:07 PM CDT up reply actions
lol
are you really halfblind? because I’m not always late
by JohnnyTruant on Apr 16, 2009 7:10 PM CDT up reply actions
No
I call myself halfblind just to be an ass.
Because when it comes to sports, we die harder than Bruce Willis.
by halfblindcubbiegirl on Apr 16, 2009 9:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Hahahahaha
Stop being an ass.
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Yeah nothing gets me more mad
Than either A) Biased game-calling (Like last year during the Ball State-Central Michigan game they had a CMU Alum call the game on ESPN and he was real biased. I saw him in the press box after the game and he was going on about how this game was so bad b/c CMU lost
and B) When commentators do not talk about the game going on. Again I will allude to my college here b/c the Mid-American Conference gets no love. Every time ESPN does one of their “Interactive Nights” for a MAC game all the ppl writing in ramble about non-MAC schools and the announcers talk about Saturdays big match-ups. Look guys, I know you all love the SEC and Big XII but there is a damn good game going on here between Temple and Ohio so SHUT IT.
by Sam Householder on Apr 17, 2009 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions
Hey, I understand you brother.
While I am an avid LSU fan, I actually went to Louisiana Tech. Tech stuggled for years to get any media attention, depite having a Heisman candidate in Tim Rattay at QB, and one of the most prolific QB/WR tandems in Rattay and Troy Edwards.
We also had some major upsets of top-25 schools, but the media only wanted to focus on how the team we beat just blew it, instead of giving Tech their props. It can be a frustrating thing for small schools…
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And...
they don’t call Matt Forte, “Matt Forty”… UGH!
"A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year." - Walter Payton
by Ashley Czuba on Apr 16, 2009 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Madden was annoying
But I would take him over Berman or Gumbel (either one) any day . On the other hand, I can’t get enough of Rich Eisen. He is the best in the biz and absolutely destined for greatness.
This ruins my drinking game
for the Sunday Night games: drink whenever Madden says something stupid or obvious. However, this will not ruin the hilarity of trying to break into the Madden bus last year coming back from a bar after a wedding in Indy the day before the start of the season… we were sure that it was the best place to find a late night drink.
by Steve Ronkowski on Apr 16, 2009 1:22 PM CDT reply actions
WTF?
people drop f-bombs and call people femine hygine products and I get flagged for a suggestive inuendo with Michaels, Kolber, and Tafoya????/
Unreasonable people make life difficult...
Relax brother.
It was just a little too close. Nothing personal, but not exactly on-topic either.
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I am just upset...
that I forgot to put in Michaels famous “do you believe in miracles….yes!” at the tail end of the post that shall remain unseen :-)
I like what you’ve done with your sig by the way…
Unreasonable people make life difficult...
by WisBearsFan34 on Apr 16, 2009 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Hahahaha.
Good stuff.
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I refuse to use, "you're". For me it is always, "your"
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Lmao.
This, Haight, I have come to accept. :)
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maybe we'll finally stop hearing about mama mcnabb's food
by PolishSausage.Ditka.Bears. on Apr 16, 2009 4:49 PM CDT reply actions
Wow, this is a lot of Madden Hate
I absolutely love John Madden. One of the top 5 people i would like to meet in this world next to Bill Clinton and Mike Tyson among others. The guy is a Football Icon, like it or not..he knows more about Football than anyone you can probably name. I will miss watching him doing bears and packer games.
His knowledge and credentials are not in dispute
If I wanted to shoot the shit about football, he’d be the man.
But he’s been unable to coherently call a game in a long time. He rambles, he mumbles, he talks about things that aren’t even relevant to play, even the game, at hand.
BOOM!
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Does anybody know the timeline on which radio guy
made the first comment about this affecting Frank Caliendo’s career? I’m getting tired of the retreaded idea and want to be able to give credit to the first person and start yelling at the rest.
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