John Madden

Birth : 1936-04-10, Austin, Minnesota, USA

Death : 2021-12-28

History

John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021) was an American football coach and sportscaster. He won Super Bowl XI as head coach of the Oakland Raiders, and after retiring from coaching became a well-known color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. He is also widely known for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden worked as a color analyst for all four major networks: CBS (1979–1993), Fox (1994–2001), ABC (2002–2005), and NBC (2006–2008). Madden retired from broadcasting after the 2008 NFL season. He also wrote several books and served as a commercial pitchman for various products and retailers. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Madden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Movies

All Madden

Centered largely on the 30 years after his Hall of Fame coaching career, this FOX Sports documentary explores football icon John Madden’s extraordinary impact on America’s most popular sport, the indelible mark he made on broadcast television and how he revolutionized the video game industry.

NFL Super Bowl Collection - Oakland Raiders

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Relive the most celebrated moments from the Silver and Black's three Super Bowl conquests, from their thunderous trouncing of the NFC Champion Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI to their underdog triumph over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII. Three unforgettable Sundays and immortal on-field heroics.

NFL Greatest Games: Dallas Cowboys 1992 NFC Championship Game

In what would be the first NFC Championship against each other in the 90s, the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers faced off for the chance to go to Super Bowl XXVII. The featured two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, Troy Aikman and Steve Young. Young threw for 313 yards but Aikman led the Cowboys to a 30-20 victory by throwing for 322 yards and 2 touchdown passes.

The Replacements

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Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

Big Game XXVIII: Road Runner vs. Coyote

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Big Game XXVIII: Road Runner vs. Coyote is a tv special featuring four hours of Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, a pregame analysis by Jerry Glanville, Nick Buoniconti, Cris Collinsworth and Len Dawson, and play-by-play shots.

Little Giants

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When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?