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John Madden in the studio: Voice of Football
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The football world mourns John Madden.
The coach and commentator icon died on Tuesday at the age of 85, as the National Football League NFL announced on Tuesday evening.
The League's commissioner Roger Goodell paid tribute to Madden: “Nobody loved football more than the coach.
He was football. "
Madden led the Oakland Raiders to win the Superbowl for the first time in January 1977, and in his ten years on the sidelines, the Raiders reached the play-offs eight times.
In January 1979, Madden surprisingly ended his coaching career at just 42 years old.
To date, he is the youngest coach to have 100 wins in the NFL.
Voice of football
For the younger generation, John Madden was above all the voice of football.
From 1979 to 2009 he analyzed football games on US television and won 16 Emmy awards.
Since 1988, EA Sports’s annual NFL video game has also been named Madden.
When elected to the Hall of Fame for Professional American Football in 2006, Madden said, “People ask me, are you a coach, commentator, or video game guy?
I'm a coach, I've always been a coach. "
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