Gonna be honest. If you'd asked me before today if John Madden was still alive, I would've said no. I guess having heard nothing from/about him for so many years led me to believe he'd already passed.
Marcy Wheeler with a late entry into worst tweet of 2021. I can think of a ton more people responsible for the standard of guys getting constantly concussed in football than him popularizing the game.
Pleasantly surprised at the lack of “wow you guys liked him, he was trash!” in here. Seemed like he had a real passion for football and the people around the game.
I feel like this is even underselling what he did post-coaching, which is the crazy part. The video game takes his legacy as an announcer to such a level that it has to be viewed as a separate thing from just the broadcast side of it.
Having not played Madden in well over a decade, has it deteriorated simply through a lack of competition?
That plus the addition of Madden Ultimate team making them millions a year in microtransactions alone. MUT is their cash cow they just need to add a few removed features from older Maddens plus spruce up the "tackle" animations and add dynamic ___ and people will still buy that dumpster fire every year.
Because social media has poisoned everyone’s brain to thinking they need to comment publicly on everything that has ever happened
i dont even find that part the most worrying, it's that people treat random comments as worthy of their attention because they're on twitter when in earlier internet times everyone knew to ignore the comments section
Absolute goat. I was always butthurt that my childhood team was in the afc and I was stuck with lames while the cowboys and packers got madden every weekend.
I had dolphins season Tix as a kid. I legit skipped a home game to listen to madden call a dolphins game on TV.
For one it was how I found out John Madden died, secondly I've seen her a bunch on the Majority Report during the Russia investigation so it was interesting to see her eating shit on Twitter.
Of all the things Madden taught about football, for some reason the one I always think about and associate with him is "1 knee = 2 feet" on catches around the sideline. I think about him saying it every time it happens in a game.
just watched the all madden doc as it aired on fs1. that really was good, and obviously hit a bit harder with the news today. i'd recommend checking it out if you haven't already
He is the only coach to lead teams from both the National and American Football Leagues to world championships. His Colts won NFL crowns in both 1958 and 1959 and the 1968 Jets followed up their AFL championship with victory in Super Bowl III. Of even more importance than the mere fact of victory itself is the effect that these Ewbank championships had on the growth of pro football.
espn did a 30 for 30 podcast about the first madden. it's pretty good https://www.espn.com/radio/play/_/id/21673003
My favorite Madden moment was when he was talking about when a guy gets hurt in more than one place and he takes an aspirin for the pain, "How does the aspirin know where to go?" and Summerall says comfortingly "Well, John, that's why you take two."