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ohn Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936)[1] is a former American football player in the National Football League, a former Super Bowl-winning head coach with the Oakland Raiders in the American Football League and later the NFL, and a former 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 knownfor the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden broadcast with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s, on CBS and later Fox. He was also the last color commentator for ABC's Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006. His last regular role was as a commentator for NBC Sunday Night Football.
Madden has also written several books and hasserved as a commercial pitchman for various products and retailers. He retired from broadcasting on April 16, 2009 in order to spend more time with his family.[2]
Contents * 1 Early life * 2 Playing career * 3 Coaching career * 3.1 College coaching * 3.2 Professional coaching * 4 Television * 4.1 CBS Sports * 4.2 Fox Sports/ABC Sports * 4.3 NBC Sports * 4.4Retirement * 4.5 Style * 4.6 Thanksgiving * 4.7 All-Madden * 4.8 Fear of flying * 4.9 Honors * 5 Radio * 6 Advertising * 7 Madden NFL video games * 8 Head coaching record * 9 See also * 10 References * 11 External links |
Early life
John Madden was born in Austin, Minnesota to Earl Russell Madden and Mary Margaret (Flaherty) Madden. His father, an automechanic, moved the Madden family to Daly City, California, a suburb of San Francisco, when he was young.[3] He attended middle school at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and then Jefferson High School, graduating in 1954.
John Madden married Virginia Fields on December 26, 1959. They live in Pleasanton, California, and have two sons, Joseph and Michael. Joe played football at Brown University and Mikeattended Harvard University where he started at receiver on the football team.[4]
Playing career
A football standout in high school, Madden then played college football at Oregon[5] and the College of San Mateo before transferring to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, where he played both offense and defense for the Mustangs -madden/bio/182334 |title=John Madden Biography |publisher=Tvguide.com |date=|accessdate=October 12, 2011}}</ref>[6] He won all-conference honors at offensive tackle, and was a catcher on Cal Poly's baseball team. Madden was drafted in the 21st round (244th overall) by the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, but a knee injury in training camp a year later ended his playing career before he ever got a chance to play professionally.
Coaching career
College coaching
In1960, he became an assistant coach at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, and was promoted to head coach in 1962. Following the 1963 season, he was hired as a defensive assistant at San Diego State, where he served through 1966. During that final campaign, the Aztecs were ranked among the top small college teams in the country. While at SDSU, Madden coached under Don Coryell, whom Madden creditsas being an influence on his coaching and who he feels will one day be included in the Hall of Fame.[7]
Professional coaching
Building on that success, Madden was hired by Al Davis as linebackers coach for the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1967, putting him in the Sid Gillman coaching tree. He helped the team reach Super Bowl II that season. A year later, after Raiders head coach John Rauch resignedto take the same position with the Buffalo Bills, Madden was named the Raiders' head coach on February 4, 1969, becoming professional football's youngest head coach at the age of 32. According to current Raider's coach Dennis Allen, John Madden was arguably the best Oakland Raiders coach in the history of the team.
Madden's Raiders reached and lost five AFC title games in seven years, which...