John Madden
John Madden
John Earl Madden 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 Conference of 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 known for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden worked...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth10 April 1936
CountryUnited States of America
It was crucial. It's something you have to do during the regular season to maintain your confidence. If you haven't beaten a team and you have to play them in the playoffs, it weighs on your mind.
I remember arriving in Miami and watching television that night. They showed the Packers arriving and Vince Lombardi and Bart Starr getting off the plane. Then the guy says, 'The Oklahoma Raiders' plane has also arrived.' The host city wasn't even sure where the other team was from.
Guess what the Redskins have? You know, I take the bus to the games, we park in the parking lot where the visiting team parks. So I go out there after the game and they have a food truck there! And the guy comes over and he cooks food for the Redskins, and they come out to the parking lot before they get on the bus and they go to the food truck!
His team is not putting up much of a fight.
Usually, the team that turns the ball over less will hold on to the ball more
In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.
at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.
If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
I know some guys will rise up to this and some guys are a little nervous about the GM sitting one step behind them and watching up close and personal.
I kind of figured that before. It's not a surprise. Why wouldn't you? We've got a great record going and we're playing well and we're responding to him.
I'm not going to make a lot of sense and I don't care. It comes from my heart. I am humbled and grateful and thankful. I just got to sit down. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I just worry about overexposure. No matter how much you wanted to watch the NFL, there were no more games between Monday night and the next Sunday. I don't want us to become like college basketball or college football where you have games on every night. That's the direction it's going in. I really don't know that it's a great direction.