Jamie_B Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Passed at 85 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griever Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 John Madden WAS football. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Great coach Great announcer Great game Great guy RIP big fella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalBuck Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 RIP John, you will be sorely missed by all football fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whodey? Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Sad to hear that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvilleBengal Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Damn....the football world has just lost the true GOAT....football as we know it would never occurred without Madden...Rest in peace, John. You will NEVER be forgotten....😪💔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tigre Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 A great read, on a life well-lived: https://www.nfl.com/_amp/john-madden-s-unparalleled-impact-on-nfl-influenced-generations-of-football-fans Thanks Coach. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerJ@w Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 I did not know he coached 10 years and never had a losing season until I saw they said it on tv. That is astonishing to say the least. Probably the greatest head coach of all times or one of them. The weird part, my wife and I were talking about him the other day and I thought he had already passed and my wife said, no he is still alive, and then he now passed away. This is the honest truth. I was shocked. May he RIP! BOOM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_C_Deadpeople Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/12/29/john-madden-was-known-to-players-for-his-kindness/ John Madden, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, was known to yell at players and officials during his days as the Oakland Raiders’ head coach. But he also showed, in quiet moments away from the TV cameras, a decency for the players who sacrificed their bodies for the sport Madden loved so much. George Blanda, the Hall of Famer who played 26 seasons, longer than anyone else in NFL history, said of Madden in 1979, “Of all the coaches I ever slaved for, John Madden was the kindest and the most thoughtful.” But it was one act of kindness in particular that many recalled about Madden after his death: The care he showed for Darryl Stingley, a New England Patriots player who suffered a life-changing spinal cord injury in a preseason game against Madden’s Raiders in 1978. When Madden learned of the severity of Stingley’s injury after the game, he went straight to the Oakland-area hospital where Stingley had been taken. When Madden arrived he was angered to learn that Patriots head coach Chuck Fairbanks was flying home with the rest of the team, as Madden felt that Fairbanks should have stayed with Stingley until Stingley’s family could arrive. A 1979 New York Times article reported that Madden got someone at the airport on the phone and barked, “You get Chuck Fairbanks off that plane.” A Sports Illustrated profile of Madden in 1983 reported that when Stingley’s family did arrive, Madden and his wife offered to let the family stay in their home and use their car as long as Stingley was in the hospital. Madden also took time away from the Raiders’ training camp to make regular visits to Stingley. After the Raiders played the Broncos in the regular-season opener that year, they flew home from Denver and Madden went straight from the airport to the hospital to see Stingley. Madden retired from coaching at the end of that season, and although Madden never said so, some who knew him felt the distress he felt about Stingley’s injury contributed to his decision to step away. Stingley would never walk again, and he died in 2007 at the age of 55. In his autobiography, Stingley wrote of Madden, “I love that man.” Stingley could have been speaking for the whole football world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 1 hour ago, I_C_Deadpeople said: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/12/29/john-madden-was-known-to-players-for-his-kindness/ John Madden, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, was known to yell at players and officials during his days as the Oakland Raiders’ head coach. But he also showed, in quiet moments away from the TV cameras, a decency for the players who sacrificed their bodies for the sport Madden loved so much. George Blanda, the Hall of Famer who played 26 seasons, longer than anyone else in NFL history, said of Madden in 1979, “Of all the coaches I ever slaved for, John Madden was the kindest and the most thoughtful.” But it was one act of kindness in particular that many recalled about Madden after his death: The care he showed for Darryl Stingley, a New England Patriots player who suffered a life-changing spinal cord injury in a preseason game against Madden’s Raiders in 1978. When Madden learned of the severity of Stingley’s injury after the game, he went straight to the Oakland-area hospital where Stingley had been taken. When Madden arrived he was angered to learn that Patriots head coach Chuck Fairbanks was flying home with the rest of the team, as Madden felt that Fairbanks should have stayed with Stingley until Stingley’s family could arrive. A 1979 New York Times article reported that Madden got someone at the airport on the phone and barked, “You get Chuck Fairbanks off that plane.” A Sports Illustrated profile of Madden in 1983 reported that when Stingley’s family did arrive, Madden and his wife offered to let the family stay in their home and use their car as long as Stingley was in the hospital. Madden also took time away from the Raiders’ training camp to make regular visits to Stingley. After the Raiders played the Broncos in the regular-season opener that year, they flew home from Denver and Madden went straight from the airport to the hospital to see Stingley. Madden retired from coaching at the end of that season, and although Madden never said so, some who knew him felt the distress he felt about Stingley’s injury contributed to his decision to step away. Stingley would never walk again, and he died in 2007 at the age of 55. In his autobiography, Stingley wrote of Madden, “I love that man.” Stingley could have been speaking for the whole football world. Wow. I had never heard that. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|westside bengal| Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Reading John Madden's bio my biggest surprise was that it took 27 years after his last game for him to get into the HOF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebengal Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 In addition to all of his other accolades, he was a pretty good author. Read all of his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Treehorn Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Shows what kind of man he was. He will be missed. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Numbers| Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 My favorite memory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted December 30, 2021 Report Share Posted December 30, 2021 My favorite on-air moment with Al Michaels...cutting a turducken with his bare hand!!! LOL.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibor75 Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 Did every NFL team hold a moment of silence when Paul Brown died? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInDaJungle Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 18 minutes ago, tibor75 said: Did every NFL team hold a moment of silence when Paul Brown died? Most people outside of Ohio don't know who Paul Brown was. John Madden was the face of football for people who had never even seen a game. My Mom, who delights in telling me her TV doesn't "get" sports, knows who Madden was. How come no one reacted to Miles Davis' death like they did Elvis? As a Jazz musician, that doesn't seem fair. Trying to compare the two at this time is both insensitive and insane. "How come they're being nice to THAT guy who just died" isn't a good look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tigre Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 7 hours ago, tibor75 said: Did every NFL team hold a moment of silence when Paul Brown died? That would have been 30 years ago, but I do recall an honoring in Riverfront at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebengal Posted December 31, 2021 Report Share Posted December 31, 2021 10 hours ago, tibor75 said: Did every NFL team hold a moment of silence when Paul Brown died? Also, he died in early August before the season started. I don't know if preseason would have started yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingspoint Posted January 5, 2022 Report Share Posted January 5, 2022 On 12/29/2021 at 8:23 AM, westside bengal said: Reading John Madden's bio my biggest surprise was that it took 27 years after his last game for him to get into the HOF. He had to wait in line for other Raiders to get in first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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