It was a sad day today for football fans and sports fans alike. The man whose name graces the only football video game series on the market has passed away unexpectedly. John Madden was eighty-five years old.
He was a coach, he was an announcer, he was an ambassador of the sport, he was the sport. John Madden singlehandedly made awarding players a turkey leg a thing. John Madden made turducken a nationally known Frankenstein food. There was nobody like John Madden and the entire sports world will grieve his loss. A Fox Sports feature on Christmas Day had just held the first interview of the legend, so his death is very much a shock.
John Madden is the greatest, and most influential, sports broadcaster of all time. An absolute legend of sports, people will be playing the video game named after him generations to come. RIP.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 29, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgp97cUXmSs
It was he who made BOOM his signature call-out during play-by-play and color commentary announcing. It was he who rode around in a signature bus out of a fear of flying. It was he who was so beloved that players, coaches, and fans took to simply calling him “coach” out of utter respect. So the headline of this article isn’t what you might normally expect for the passing of a famous person, but we feel it’s exactly as he would want it.
If there are football games in Heaven, there’s an upcoming broadcast that is going to blow everyone away.
