Wednesday 13 May 2009
The withdrawal of John Madden, voice of football
Comment on the final and go away from the retreat back story of the man who more than any in recent years, the company has done to the Americans
On the evening of last February, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 in quarantatreesima Super Bowl edition of the National Football League, one of the most exciting final of the last decades, decided just 35 seconds from the whistle with the final touchdown of the wide receiver Santoni Holmes (later named MVP). That, in light of what happened in the past few days, further significant purchases and assumes a different meaning: the final between the Steelers and Cardinals was the last match with commentary from John Madden, who has announced that it was April 16 .
THE MYTH LIVING - John Earl Madden is much more than just a television commentator, or rather of a "color commentator", a term to determine purely American who acts as a shoulder to telecronista. John Madden is a living legend, at the same time one of the most influential of the NFL and an honorary member of every family in the stars and stripes that during the last thirty years, has sanctified their Sundays (but also some of the Thanksgiving Day) looking at the football on television. With his imposing physical and his smile permanently printed on the face, his is one of the most recognized U.S. sports, inside and outside the borders of the United States, became a real mark in the literal sense, through a known series of sports video games of Electronic Arts that bears his name. For many, short, John Madden is synonymous with American football.
HISTORY - Born April 10 1936 in the Austin, Minnesota, then moved at a young age in Daly City, California, Madden showed immediately its preparation for the sport of the oval ball, showing all the his talent as a player of Jefferson High School, then to the universities he attended, or University of Oregon, College of San Mateo, but especially California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California, where he distinguished himself by playing both defense and in attack, and with which he won every kind of honor in the role of offensive tackle. His performance was obviously noticed by scouts league of professionals, which arrived in 1958, chose the 21st round (number 244 overall) by the Philadelphia Eagles. The dream of playing in the NFL, however, had very short duration, since a bad knee injury, which occurred during training camp prestagionale, put an end to his career as a player, even before he had the chance to take the field with the new uniform team.
INCREASE - Despite the unfortunate incident of the journey, John refused to give up and decided to reinvent their role, always in close contact with the football. Prior to the Buffalo State College, then all'Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, played the role of assistant coach and, after a short time, the first coach. In 1963 he was hired as assistant to the defense for the prestigious San Diego State University, where he remained until 1966, helping to transform the university into one of the best teams in the United States. An excellent job, which led him to make the big leap in 1967 when he signed a contract to coach the linebacker for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL, teams that, just that year, he managed to reach the Super Bowl. Following the resignation of coach John Rauch, who left Oakland to lead the Buffalo Bills, Madden was named first coach of the Raiders in 1969. At just 32 years, became the youngest head coach in the history of the National Football League. Despite the lack of experience, managed to keep the team in the highest floors of the rankings, but lost five times in seven years, decisive encounters for the title of the American Football Conference, by the Oakland Raiders earn the label of not able to win the matches that count. But that label was cleared away from the field in 1976, when the team outperforms every opponent on its way and reached the final of the Super Bowl, which soundly defeated (32-14) the Minnesota Vikings, giving the company the first title in its history John Madden and the highest honor for a coach for football. After the season of 1978, an accomplice of an ulcer difficult to manage, he retired from. Only 42 springs, was the youngest coach to reach 100 victories in regular season, cut goal in less than ten years. In the history of the league, Madden still has the highest percentage of wins, including playoffs: no one has ever been able to do better than him.
DATE CHANGE - Leaving the bench of the Raiders, Madden is not away by our football, dedicated to the job of television commentator, a role that transformed him into a "household name", or any figure known American. An activity period thirty years, in which - and this is a record - have worked for all four major U.S. television networks. Prior to CBS, then Fox Sports, and ABC, NBC finally. A total of 476 consecutive TV appearances over the weekend, a stretch interrupted only in 2008, when his notorious fear of flying prevent him from reaching Tampa, Florida, for the match between the Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks. Three decades of comments in which sports has become a unique presence for each batch of the cartel, and a guide can tell in a simple and entertaining football to the less experienced ( "For a woman who loves to watch the football, John Madden is was the equivalent of a gift of heaven "wrote the journalist Elisabeth Meinecke, commenting on his retirement). Inventor of smash and recurrent expressions (among them "Boom!", "Whap!", "Bang!" And "Doink!", By some as "Madden"), Madden was able to create a style all single, appropriately branded by his fans as "Maddentary" (fusion of "Madden" and "Commentary"), together with his great expertise in this area and the disarming simplicity of expression, led him to win the enviable number of 16 Emmy Award in the category devoted to personality and "analyst" of sports television.
GOODBYE, FOOTBALL, HELLO - His withdrawal leaves a huge void and, according to some, unbridgeable in American sports television landscape, but also the universe of football. To give the news in person Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, among the most important individuals as to the stars and stripes, which called it "absolutely the best sports commentator ever lived" and that he tried, in extremis , to convince him to stay. The next season of National Football League, which will begin next September, will be the first, thirty years from now, not to be commented by the now unmistakable voice 73enne John Madden. "I'm not tired of anything," he said in the days following the notification of withdrawal, "but I'm going." Even Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, thought it appropriate to dedicate a tribute: "There is one thing that has agreed fans of football for decades: all those who love John Madden. He was a coach by Hall of Fame even before becoming one of the most celebrated sports personality. He had an incredible talent in explaining the game in a way that makes it simple to understand and fun: his respect and his passion for football the most significant ever. It was a big fan and a coach and a commentator of great talent. "
On the evening of last February, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 in quarantatreesima Super Bowl edition of the National Football League, one of the most exciting final of the last decades, decided just 35 seconds from the whistle with the final touchdown of the wide receiver Santoni Holmes (later named MVP). That, in light of what happened in the past few days, further significant purchases and assumes a different meaning: the final between the Steelers and Cardinals was the last match with commentary from John Madden, who has announced that it was April 16 .
THE MYTH LIVING - John Earl Madden is much more than just a television commentator, or rather of a "color commentator", a term to determine purely American who acts as a shoulder to telecronista. John Madden is a living legend, at the same time one of the most influential of the NFL and an honorary member of every family in the stars and stripes that during the last thirty years, has sanctified their Sundays (but also some of the Thanksgiving Day) looking at the football on television. With his imposing physical and his smile permanently printed on the face, his is one of the most recognized U.S. sports, inside and outside the borders of the United States, became a real mark in the literal sense, through a known series of sports video games of Electronic Arts that bears his name. For many, short, John Madden is synonymous with American football.
HISTORY - Born April 10 1936 in the Austin, Minnesota, then moved at a young age in Daly City, California, Madden showed immediately its preparation for the sport of the oval ball, showing all the his talent as a player of Jefferson High School, then to the universities he attended, or University of Oregon, College of San Mateo, but especially California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California, where he distinguished himself by playing both defense and in attack, and with which he won every kind of honor in the role of offensive tackle. His performance was obviously noticed by scouts league of professionals, which arrived in 1958, chose the 21st round (number 244 overall) by the Philadelphia Eagles. The dream of playing in the NFL, however, had very short duration, since a bad knee injury, which occurred during training camp prestagionale, put an end to his career as a player, even before he had the chance to take the field with the new uniform team.
INCREASE - Despite the unfortunate incident of the journey, John refused to give up and decided to reinvent their role, always in close contact with the football. Prior to the Buffalo State College, then all'Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, played the role of assistant coach and, after a short time, the first coach. In 1963 he was hired as assistant to the defense for the prestigious San Diego State University, where he remained until 1966, helping to transform the university into one of the best teams in the United States. An excellent job, which led him to make the big leap in 1967 when he signed a contract to coach the linebacker for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL, teams that, just that year, he managed to reach the Super Bowl. Following the resignation of coach John Rauch, who left Oakland to lead the Buffalo Bills, Madden was named first coach of the Raiders in 1969. At just 32 years, became the youngest head coach in the history of the National Football League. Despite the lack of experience, managed to keep the team in the highest floors of the rankings, but lost five times in seven years, decisive encounters for the title of the American Football Conference, by the Oakland Raiders earn the label of not able to win the matches that count. But that label was cleared away from the field in 1976, when the team outperforms every opponent on its way and reached the final of the Super Bowl, which soundly defeated (32-14) the Minnesota Vikings, giving the company the first title in its history John Madden and the highest honor for a coach for football. After the season of 1978, an accomplice of an ulcer difficult to manage, he retired from. Only 42 springs, was the youngest coach to reach 100 victories in regular season, cut goal in less than ten years. In the history of the league, Madden still has the highest percentage of wins, including playoffs: no one has ever been able to do better than him.
DATE CHANGE - Leaving the bench of the Raiders, Madden is not away by our football, dedicated to the job of television commentator, a role that transformed him into a "household name", or any figure known American. An activity period thirty years, in which - and this is a record - have worked for all four major U.S. television networks. Prior to CBS, then Fox Sports, and ABC, NBC finally. A total of 476 consecutive TV appearances over the weekend, a stretch interrupted only in 2008, when his notorious fear of flying prevent him from reaching Tampa, Florida, for the match between the Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks. Three decades of comments in which sports has become a unique presence for each batch of the cartel, and a guide can tell in a simple and entertaining football to the less experienced ( "For a woman who loves to watch the football, John Madden is was the equivalent of a gift of heaven "wrote the journalist Elisabeth Meinecke, commenting on his retirement). Inventor of smash and recurrent expressions (among them "Boom!", "Whap!", "Bang!" And "Doink!", By some as "Madden"), Madden was able to create a style all single, appropriately branded by his fans as "Maddentary" (fusion of "Madden" and "Commentary"), together with his great expertise in this area and the disarming simplicity of expression, led him to win the enviable number of 16 Emmy Award in the category devoted to personality and "analyst" of sports television.
GOODBYE, FOOTBALL, HELLO - His withdrawal leaves a huge void and, according to some, unbridgeable in American sports television landscape, but also the universe of football. To give the news in person Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, among the most important individuals as to the stars and stripes, which called it "absolutely the best sports commentator ever lived" and that he tried, in extremis , to convince him to stay. The next season of National Football League, which will begin next September, will be the first, thirty years from now, not to be commented by the now unmistakable voice 73enne John Madden. "I'm not tired of anything," he said in the days following the notification of withdrawal, "but I'm going." Even Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, thought it appropriate to dedicate a tribute: "There is one thing that has agreed fans of football for decades: all those who love John Madden. He was a coach by Hall of Fame even before becoming one of the most celebrated sports personality. He had an incredible talent in explaining the game in a way that makes it simple to understand and fun: his respect and his passion for football the most significant ever. It was a big fan and a coach and a commentator of great talent. "
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