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John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021) was an American football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL). He served as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, leading them to eight playoff appearances, seven division titles, seven AFL/AFC Championship Game appearances, and the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XI.
Madden NFL (known as John Madden Football until 1993) is an American football sports video game series developed by EA Orlando for EA Sports. The franchise, named after Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and commentator John Madden, has sold more than 130 million copies as of 2018. [ 1] From 2004 until 2022, it was the only officially licensed ...
Before he became an announcing legend, John Madden's debut broadcast for CBS in 1979 shows a different side of the one-time coach who had just retired at age 42 to reluctantly take a job in the booth.
Nicolas Cage will play John Madden in a film focusing on the legendary football coach and broadcaster's role in creating the "Madden NFL" video game franchise.
My most important question is: Can Cage avoid the famous Madden curse? According to fans of the series, appearing on the cover of Madden is both a gift and a curse. Over the years, many Madden ...
John Philip Madden (born 8 April 1949) is an English director of stage, film, television, and radio. [2] He is known for directing Shakespeare in Love (1998), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has also gained recognition for directing The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) and its sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015).
Fox Sports aired a documentary about John Madden's legacy on Christmas, but the tribute has taken on new meaning after the legend died days later.
Going into the 1981 NFL season, CBS Sports executives decided that John Madden, who had joined the network in 1979 and had worked with Frank Glieber and Gary Bender (as previously mentioned, Pat Summerall and Madden were first teamed on a November 25, 1979 broadcast of a Minnesota Vikings–Tampa Bay Buccaneers game [25]) in his first two years ...