John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936-- December 28, 2021) was an American football coach and also sportscaster. He was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) for 10 periods (1969-- 1978), as well as guided them to a champion in Super Bowl XI (1977). After relinquishing training, he functioned as a color analyst for NFL telecasts till 2009, work for which he won 16 Sports Emmy Awards. Madden never had a shedding season as a coach, and his general win portion is 2nd in league background. In acknowledgment of his training job, Madden was inducted right into the Pro Football Hall of Popularity in 2006. As a broadcaster, Madden observed on all four significant networks: CBS (1979-- 1993), Fox (1994-- 2001), ABC (2002-- 2005), and also NBC (2006-- 2008). He also offered as a business pitchman for various products and sellers, and fronted the Madden NFL computer game collection.
Nobody loved football more than the coach. He was football. With these words Roger Goodall, the current commissioners of the National Football League, the deceased trainer and commentator legends.
Madden led Oakland Raiders in January 1977 for the first profit of Super Bowl, in his ten years at the sideline, the Raiders also reached the play-offs proud eight times. In January 1979, Madden then finished a bit surprising with just 42 years his career as Head Coach. To this day, Madden is still the recent coach, which reached 100 victories in the NFL. And: with his balance sheet of 103 victories, only 32 defeats and seven draws with the Raiders located in Las Vegas, he is the most successful coach of history measured at the winning ratio at least ten years in action (over 75 percent).
I'm a coach, was always a coach
An ass as a coach and microphone: John Madden. Imago Images / Yuma Wire
For the younger generation John Madden was mainly the voice of football. From 1979 to 2009, he analyzed football games in US television and, among other things, won 16 Emmy Awards. Since 1988, the annual NFL computer game of EA SPORTS Madden's name, which is why US media or Twitter users in these hours are already voting loud, that the publisher in the next few years, please a special edition in honor of Madden should bring out.
The NFL icon itself has never happened to prices or awards despite its successes on the microphone. When he was elected in 2006 in the Hall of Fame of Professional American Football, Madden said, People ask me: Are you a coach, a commentator or a video game type? I am a coach, was always a coach.
We stand forever in his debt for what he has done for football and the NFL.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodall
There will be no other John Madden anymore, says the final words about the NFL legend deceased at the age of 85 years. We stand forever in his debt for what he has done for football and the NFL.
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