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He will be missed.
BOOM! And Madden retires.
Any coincidence that Madden is retiring at the same time as Favre?
This was exactly what I thought when I first saw this. It probably went something like this:
Favre (via text): im retired fo realz this time
Madden: NOOOOO! :'( xoxox
Madden (to NBC): Football is dead to me. I quit.
He will be missed, I liked his announcing. I wonder if he will continue the Madden video game series.
Finally!.....now if we could just get tony kornheiser off monday night football..
I used to enjoy Madden but he had gotten to the point where he either:
A) restated the obvious
B) didn't make much sense at all
or
C) compared everyone to Brett Favre
Any coincidence that Madden is retiring at the same time as Favre?
actually none of this is true, these are just rehashed jokes from frank caliendo's stand-up career.
madden's the best
I liked Madden. He will be missed.
While at lunch NFLN ticker stated NBC has announced Chris Collinsworth his replacement.
It'll take some getting used to, but I don't have a problem with Collinsworth.
I liked Madden. He will be missed.
While at lunch NFLN ticker stated NBC has announced Chris Collinsworth his replacement.
It'll take some getting used to, but I don't have a problem with Collinsworth.
Collinsworth comes across as smug....don't like him at all, but whatever, I bet he doesn't last long.Collinsworth knows his football.
He doesn't have the same personality that Madden does, but he will do a good job.
Collinsworth comes across as smug....don't like him at all, but whatever, I bet he doesn't last long.
Collinsworth comes across as smug....don't like him at all, but whatever, I bet he doesn't last long.
Finally!.....now if we could just get tony kornheiser off monday night football..
Yep.
This day is about fifteen years late. Madden is the most overrated broadcaster in history. I've never understood the infatuation with him. Not only is he the the masterest master of the obvious, he and Summerall schlurped Cowboy dong for so long in the 90's that I couldn't stand hearing him on my TV. Then, once the Cowboys started sucking again, he moved on to Favre.
Finally, he's retiring. Yay.
Its too bad Madden never called a Texans game.
Yep.
This day is about fifteen years late. Madden is the most overrated broadcaster in history. I've never understood the infatuation with him. Not only is he the the masterest master of the obvious, he and Summerall schlurped Cowboy dong for so long in the 90's that I couldn't stand hearing him on my TV. Then, once the Cowboys started sucking again, he moved on to Favre.
Finally, he's retiring. Yay.
Michaels silence at the time of Maddens retirement announcement is conspicuous.
Madden was certainly popular but overrated in my book. Even my wife often remarked about how he went overboard with obvious attempts to
dumbing-down his analysis.
In his early days he was just fine. Over the last five or so years he's been boring as hell. Frankly the game announcers are just talking heads placed there by the networks to give us something to listen to and explain some of the more arcane rules of the game. They could all be replaced by a musical soundtrack for most of the game.
Madden was great. He had nothing but unabashed enthusiasm for the game he was calling and for the NFL. I can't say the same for many "announcers" calling games today.
Michaels gave a quote to NFLN on Madden's retirement. Is that considered silence?
Longtime broadcast partner Al Michaels said Madden will have a unique place in pro football history.
"No one has made the sport more interesting, more relevant and more enjoyable to watch and listen to than John," Michaels said in a statement. "There's never been anyone like him and he's been the gold standard for analysts for almost three decades."
the internet is full of crybaby complainers...it's amazing how many ugly comments I read on youtube, newspaper articles and whatnot. I kinda consider them the vocal minority of ugliness.I agree. Madden's love for the game overshadowed any of his flaws. I think people are being too hard on the guy. I will miss him in the booth, but I'm not anal retentive about the announcers. It's just a football game.
I always appreciate all you posts but I disagree with this one. NBC once tried a annoucer-less game and it didn't work. Not with me or the public. Madden IMHO was great in comparison to the others simply because he loved the game. I guess that was good enough for me, dunno.
Could be because I've gotten used to watching the NFL replay games muted, with other music playing in the apartment. I don't recall me ever doing that during a live game. LOL
Next Sunday during the season can I come over? I'll bring beer.
We should check who's got the biggest TV, and go there.