Rest in Peace Mr.Madden

There wont be many football fans who wont know who Mr. Madden was, he was omnipresent in the sport for decades.

I met him on the sidelines when I was shooting home games for my hometown paper.(as a teenager WAAAY over my head LOL) He was "larger-than-life" then--- his locker room sessions during halftime were legendary--- particularly to an impressionable kid like me.

A lot of kids know football because of his video game series "Madden NFL" and a lot more from his decades in the broadcast booth.

God I am getting old.

Rest in peace John. Your insights and humor will be missed.

Ironically he was sitting with his family watching the documentary All Madden about his life on Christmas day. Three days later he was dead. He lived a long life. Iconic figure.

When I was a kid, I read "Hey Wait a Minute (I wrote a book!) and thought it was funny. I also remember his voice from a Tinactin commercial, and of course, football.

In my mind, he was the face of football.  It's hard to believe he's gone.  RIP, Mr. Madden.