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  John Madden (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936 in Austin, Minnesota), was head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969-1978 and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Madden was drafted in the 21st round by the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, but suffered a knee injury in training camp and never played in a professional game.
Madden is noted for his fear of flying, believed to be related to the October 29, 1960, plane crash that claimed the lives of most of that year's Cal Poly football team.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Madden_(football)   (1932 words)

  
 Madden NFL - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The game is named after John Madden, a well-known football commentator and formerly a successful football coach during the 1970s.
Madden insisted that he would only give his endorsement to a game that was as close to real life football as possible.
The commentary is by John Madden teamed with his regular broadcast partner, which meant Pat Summerall until he retired; the role is now filled by Al Michaels, John's regular broadcast partner on Monday Night Football.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/John_Madden_Football   (521 words)

  
 John Madden
John Madden is a legendary football coach who won the Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in the 1976-1977 season.
John Madden has worked for three of the four American broadcast television networks that have or have had NFL broadcasts (CBS, the Fox Network, and more recently, ABC).
John Madden is also the name of a very good NHL player who plays for the New Jersey Devils.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Madden.html   (183 words)

  
 John Madden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Madden (jurist), (1844 - 1918), former Chief Justice of Victoria
John Madden (football), (born 1936), an American football coach and television announcer
John Madden (director), (born 1948), an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Madden   (130 words)

  
 John Madden
Legendary NFL broadcaster John Madden returns for his fourth season as expert analyst for "Monday Night Football." Madden, who is synonymous with NFL football for millions of fans nationwide, has an ability to explain the game's finer points with a unique sense of humor.
John Madden checks in regularly during the NFL season on KCBS Radio in San Francisco.
In its 16th year, Madden NFL is the undisputed leader in authentic football simulation.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/madden/story?page=bio   (614 words)

  
 John Madden
John Madden coached the Oakland Raiders to victory in Super Bowl XI and went on to become one of America's best-known (and most enthusiastic) football announcers.
Madden began coaching after an aborted career as a professional football player -- he was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but never made the active roster because of an early knee injury.
Madden famously hates to fly in airplanes and travels from coast to coast in a custom-built bus known as the Madden Cruiser...
www.factmonster.com /biography/var/johnmadden.html   (341 words)

  
 John Madden: America's biggest commuter
Madden's longtime drivers, Willie Yarbrough and Joe Mitchell, are always at the controls of the Cruiser.
Madden, lolling in the front seat with his feet on the windshield, nods at the colors.
Madden will sleep at his apartment, ready himself for Monday night's analysis and banter, ride the brightly-painted Cruiser to Giants' stadium and greet a throng of eager fans.
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 John Madden bio
Legendary NFL broadcaster John Madden returns for his second season as expert analyst for "Monday Night Football." Madden, who is synonymous with NFL football for millions of fans nationwide, has an ability to explain the game’s finer points with a unique sense of humor.
Before coaching in Oakland, Madden was the defensive coordinator at San Diego State, from 1964-1966, where the Aztecs were ranked first among small colleges with a 26-4 record.
Madden started on both offense and defense as a player for California Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo in 1957 and 1958, and was voted to the All-Conference team.
media.espn.com /MediaZone/bios/Talent/MaddenJohn.htm   (475 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Pro Football - Madden signs 4-year deal with MNF - Friday March 01, 2002 09:06 AM
Madden is carrying his inimitable mix of enthusiasm, opinions and analysis to Monday Night Football, leaving FOX Sports and agreeing to a four-year, $20 million deal with ABC Sports to pair with Al Michaels in a two-man booth.
Madden and Pat Summerall were paired at CBS in 1981, then moved to FOX in 1994, along the way becoming the signature voices of NFL games.
Madden had one year at $7.5 million left on his contract with FOX, but the network agreed to scrap that deal after Madden rejected a three-year, $15 million extension and asked permission to talk to ABC, an industry source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2002/02/28/madden_mnf_ap   (1086 words)

  
 Madden NFL 2004 Review for PlayStation 2 - Gaming Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While John Madden is still quite generic and bland, Al Michaels has a very diverse array of dialog that he can spit out during the season.
Still, wait for the day that Tiburon gives Madden the prompter screen marker and let him draw his squiggly lines all over the place, while telling a story about a turkey with six legs; now that would be a realistic simulation of John Madden.
For John Madden veterans this year’s version of John Madden will feel as comfortable as an old pair of basketball shoes; this is because it plays pretty much the same as last year.
www.gaming-age.com /cgi-bin/reviews/review.pl?sys=ps2&game=madden2k4   (1331 words)

  
 Madden football. By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
Not John Madden: The coach with the highest winning percentage in NFL history and the broadcaster who's been the top analyst on three networks still hasn't been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
In that sense, the triumph of Madden is of a piece with the triumph of gaming in youth culture and the triumph of football as the new national pastime.
As an announcer, John Madden is of no real value to the game, except as kitsch, but John Madden the football popularizer and one-man quality-control team is the perfect incarnation of his video namesake.
www.slate.com /id/2087013   (1681 words)

  
 Madden remains the untouchable football franchise that transformed video games into pop culture
Madden NFL Football 2005, which reached stores a week ago, is better than last year's version (again).
The football was a small fl square, forward passes were physics-defying guided missiles and there were no announcers, NFL players or field goals.
When John Madden Football was finally released in 1989 for personal computers, Madden expected it to sell as a niche product that could be used as a tool to help coaches.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/17/DDG5H87UJS1.DTL&type=printable   (956 words)

  
 Monday Night Football - MNF adds Madden to cast
Legendary NFL analyst John Madden will join sports television's preeminent play-by-play announcer Al Michaels in the ABC's NFL Monday Night Football broadcast booth beginning in the 2002 season, it was announced Thursday by ABC Sports President Howard Katz.
John Madden joins ABC Sports after spending the last 21 years as a NFL game analyst for Fox and CBS where he garnered 13 Emmy Awards for outstanding sports personality/analyst.
Prior to his announcing days, Madden registered a 103-32-7 record as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969-1978 and led the Raiders to victory in Super Bowl XI.
espn.go.com /abcsports/mnf/s/2002/0228/1342259.html   (333 words)

  
 AskMen.com - John Madden pics
At California Polytechnic College, Madden played on both the offensive and defensive lines for its football team and was a catcher for the school's baseball team.
Madden entered the NFL draft in 1958 and was picked 21st overall by the Philadelphia Eagles.
Months of rehabilitation confirmed Madden's inability to play but, though his hopes were shattered, he immediately opened his mind to other job opportunities in football.
www.askmen.com /men/sports/59c_john_madden.html   (920 words)

  
 Madden night football - football broadcaster John Madden - Column Sporting News, The - Find Articles
That intersection of circumstances likely is by Madden's design because he has always wanted his last stop in broadcasting to be in the Monday night booth.
Cosell respected Madden as a football coach good enough to get the Raiders' job in 1969 at 32, win 112 games in 10 years under Al Davis's whip and win the Super Bowl after the 1976 season.
Cosell admired Madden as a man sensitive enough to leave football when one of his players, cornerback Jack Tatum delivered an assassin's violent tackle that caused Danyl Stingley's paralysis.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n3_v222/ai_20167344   (870 words)

  
 John Madden - Moviefone
Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, in 1949, director John Madden (not to be confused with the American sports commentator of the same name)...
Legendary NFL broadcaster John Madden returns for his fourth season as expert analyst for "Monday Night Football." Madden, who is synonymous with NFL...
John Madden played junior college football at the College of San Mateo before transferring and...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-madden/100694/main   (131 words)

  
 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
John Madden began his pro football coaching career in 1967 as the Oakland Raiders' linebackers coach.
In his first year at the Raiders' helm, Madden earned American Football League Coach of the Year honors as he led the team to a 12-1-1 record and an AFL Western Division title.
Madden coached the Raiders for 10 seasons, posting a regular season record of 103 wins, 32 losses and 7 ties.
www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=255   (624 words)

  
 John Madden (II) Photos - John Madden (II) News - John Madden (II) Information
Having played football in college, John was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, but a training camp injury ended his career before he ever played a game.
John shifted to coaching, and rapidly rose to become a defensive assistant at San Diego State, helping build one of the best small college defenses in the country in 1966.
Upon moving to FOX in 1994, John's salary of $8 million paid him over $3 million more to broadcast games than John Elway, the highest-paid person to actually play in the games, who made just over $4.7 million that year.
www.tv.com /john-madden-ii/person/172906/summary.html   (378 words)

  
 TV.com: John Madden touches down at NBC
John Madden, the effusive football commentator who has won a whopping 14 Emmys, has signed to NBC for a six-year stint.
So he's going to be on the most-viewed football program of the week, a deal that includes a flexible schedule for the last seven weeks of the season (read: 'important' late-season games will fill those TBA SNF slots).
John Madden (II) Having played football in college, John was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, but a training camp injury ended his career before he ever played a game.
www.tv.com /story/story.html&story_id=343   (541 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Electronic Arts renews license with John Madden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Madden NFL 2006 is scheduled to be released on Aug. 9.
An EA spokeswoman said the new Madden deal is a multiyear exclusive agreement, but declined to disclose financial terms.
Analysts had speculated that EA could forgo a license with Madden, a former National Football League coach who is now an analyst with ABC's Monday Night Football, because it signed a 15-year licensing deal with the sport channel ESPN.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-07-13-madden-renews-contract_x.htm   (295 words)

  
 NBC signs Madden as part of its new NFL coverage in '06 - Jun. 15, 2005
John Madden, right, is leaving ABC and his "Monday Night Football" partner Al Michaels for his fourth network as an NFL commentator.
Madden, who has already worked doing NFL broadcasts at the three other major networks, will join the "Sunday Night Football" broadcasts on NBC, the first time that Sunday night show will be on broadcast television.
Madden has been part of the team at ABC's "Monday Night Football" for the past three seasons and ABC confirmed that he will stay as part of the ABC team for the 2005-06 season, broadcasting the upcoming season's Super Bowl when ABC airs it.
money.cnn.com /2005/06/15/news/fortune500/nbc_madden   (757 words)

  
 KTVU.com - John Madden Special
John Madden Recalls the famous 'Holy Roller' fumble that helped defeat the San Diego Chargers in 1978.
John Madden fondly recalls the truimph of Super Bowl XI -- a 32-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
According to his life-long friend John Robinson, no one was better at handling free spirited players than John Madden.
www.ktvu.com /johnmadden   (332 words)

  
 John Madden's Heroes of Football - John Madden - Penguin Group (USA)
For millions of fans, John Madden's name is synonymous with football.
In Heroes of Football, Madden uses his extensive knowledge to detail the dominating dynasties, prominent players, game-making plays, and season-ending games that transformed professional football from its rough-and-tumble beginnings to the country's biggest sport.
Filled with photos, sidebars, and analytical charts, John Madden's Heroes of Football: The Story of America's Game is the ultimate book for young football fans.
us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780525476986,00.html   (170 words)

  
 AskMen.com - John Madden
A broadcasting legend in his own right, John Madden is as much a constant of our weekly dose of the NFL as beer, hard hits and last-minute touchdown drives.
Madden's efforts on television have spawned numerous business opportunities: he has co-authored several books and leant his name to the best-selling NFL video game series, Madden, by EA Sports.
With his generous use of the Telestrator, blue-collar attitude and light humor, Madden has worked his way into the living room of millions of couch potatoes.
www.askmen.com /men/sports/59_john_madden.html   (537 words)

  
 EA SPORTS - It's In the Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In its 14th season, Madden NFL™ Football remains the undisputed leader in authentic NFL football simulationˆ.
Madden NFL 2004 is the most complete, authentic sports video game ever, making it The Ultimate Judge™ for sports gamers.
Madden NFL Football honored and displayed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
www.easports.com /games/madden2004/home.jsp   (338 words)

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