John Madden was a Super Bowl winning coach and the namesake of one of the best videos games ever created.
But where he really excelled (he was awesome in everything he did) was in the broadcast booth calling games for CBS, FOX, ABC, and NBC during his legendary career. He has to be the best to ever do it and the things he said during those games were just priceless.
He and Pat Summerall worked alongside each other for many years and are one of the best pairings in sports broadcasting history. This video below of Madden talking about how they would bet on how long Summerall could pause while promoting the new episode of “Murder, She Wrote” each week while they were on CBS is a good reminder of how much fun these guys had and how much fun we had watching them.
So good.
RIP, John Madden.
