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00:16:08Et je me suis dit, « J'ai eu l'air, je me suis en la coliseum et je me
00:16:12suis en un moment de finir.
00:16:14Je me suis détaçée, je ne sais pas ce qui se passe.
00:16:17Bonjour, je suis Bob Costas.
00:16:19Bob Costas, il s'est d'autant, on s'est dit, « J'ai eu l'air, je suis là,
00:16:23j'ai eu l'air.
00:16:24Je me suis dit, « J'ai eu l'air, c'est un petit gars que je suis là.
00:16:28J'ai eu l'air, j'ai eu l'air.
00:16:28Je me suis dit, « J'ai eu l'air, j'ai eu l'air.
00:16:30»
00:16:32Je me souviens de la réaction.
00:16:38Je me suis dit, « J'ai eu l'air, il a eu l'air, je me suis dit, j
00:16:45'ai eu l'air.
00:16:45J'ai eu l'air, je travaille au SBS Sports pour 14 ans.
00:16:50Qu'est-ce que vous avez votre interest en quelqu'un comme Jon Madin ?
00:16:54Parce qu'il était une chiste de plus de vie.
00:16:58Il était quelqu'un à regarder sur le liné de liné.
00:17:02C'est quelqu'un que nous avons entendu dans les entrevues ou les conférences de presse après les matchs.
00:17:07Il était juste une personne remarquable et un grand gagnant à une très jeune âge.
00:17:15Et donc c'était logique.
00:17:17Vous êtes un coach, c'est pas trop vite pour les Buccaneers ?
00:17:20Mais ce que nous n'avons pas fait, c'est prendre John Madden et mettre le numéro un analyste,
00:17:27juste en boxe.
00:17:28Le plus le plus le plus le plus le plus le plus le plus le plus le plus le plus
00:17:31le plus le plus.
00:17:31Even though he was a big name, Super Bowl, you know, winning coach.
00:17:36Know that they're in the playoffs and then they have another week, excuse me, another month to peak.
00:17:41It's not something that just, you know, comes naturally.
00:17:45It takes time.
00:17:46Well, he wasn't sure that he had the personality, the demeanor to do it.
00:17:52One thing I remember, this is silly, but he's like, if I'm on camera, how do I hold the microphone
00:17:57?
00:17:57Is there a noise in the mix or is it just in our headset ?
00:17:59You know, you just can't talk when you want to.
00:18:02You have to hit commercials, you have to hit halftime.
00:18:07I just didn't think it was very good.
00:18:09We want to throw those short little things where he can come back, set up, boom, get rid of the
00:18:13ball right now.
00:18:14And if you give him a lane in there, a pass rush lane, he'll take it.
00:18:18You see that hole right there ?
00:18:19He sees it and knows that he can get all the way to the goal.
00:18:22I knew after I did the first couple games, that's what I wanted to do.
00:18:28You know, Vin, this weekend, I think I've heard the word, must win, more than I ever have in my
00:18:33life.
00:18:33When I had continued to get better and better, it just felt real.
00:18:36John had this energy that came to life and it was authentic.
00:18:41And I think the people at CBS in the early 80s just saw something that they hadn't seen before.
00:18:48Well, that's really not a problem when you're out of the Super Bowl in the next year, that's a nice
00:18:52problem.
00:18:52This is something he wanted to do, such a logical progression for him, and he was learning, and that's what
00:18:59he was doing, learning this whole time.
00:19:01I wanted a broadcast.
00:19:02I mean, I didn't think I would, but I embraced it.
00:19:05I said, this is it.
00:19:07Watch this replay.
00:19:09Makes a little basketball twist there and pivot, and boom, the ball's there, right again between the eight and the
00:19:15nine.
00:19:16Oh, is he happy.
00:19:20He thought that football deserved better.
00:19:22You know, he wanted to take football broadcasting somewhere where it hadn't been.
00:19:28I thought he was going to shine.
00:19:31Everything John ever touched was a success.
00:19:35I can't think of anything he ever failed at, except his driver's test.
00:19:40Yeah.
00:19:42That was it.
00:19:43Yeah.
00:19:52Hey, you get into fitness, you're likely to get into athlete's foot, and that could be tough.
00:19:57I mean, look it.
00:19:57You've got all that itching and cracking stuff, and watch this.
00:20:01Boom, even burning.
00:20:02You see that?
00:20:02Now, that's what you call a really tough case.
00:20:04That's when you want a medicine that acts tough.
00:20:07Boom.
00:20:07Get tough acting to acting.
00:20:16Pregame of the Super Bowl.
00:20:18So it's going to be like Super Bowl.
00:20:20Yeah.
00:20:21Okay.
00:20:22Not memory, but just more like feelings, you know, like what you felt like.
00:20:27Do you even remember your Super Bowl?
00:20:46I've had so many people ask me over the years, why the fascination between you and Coach Madden.
00:20:53Brett Favre has to have a day.
00:20:55I mean, it has to be.
00:20:56Why me?
00:20:58You know, I thought about that sometimes.
00:21:00But ultimately and eventually, you get down to Brett Favre and throwing.
00:21:04When I met with Coach Madden, we were on the bus, and he would ask questions like,
00:21:10who you got coming to the game?
00:21:13I just remember I had a bunch of guys I played college ball with that came in, and I told
00:21:18him.
00:21:19One of the guys that was coming in town had an uncle, a great uncle, called Uncle Rube.
00:21:27And somehow we got to talking about, and I don't want to reveal too much, but Uncle Rube had an
00:21:36uncharacteristically large sack.
00:21:45John thought that was the most hilarious thing in the world.
00:21:49Lo and behold, the next day, Reggie White got a sack, and he squeezed in Uncle Rube in the telecast.
00:21:59Well, that's your Uncle Rube stuff.
00:22:03He just runs right into that sack.
00:22:07Uh, it was, yeah, Uncle Rube was, uh, Uncle Rube, uh, I don't know, I can't say it.
00:22:21I can't say it.
00:22:27How did the bus come to be?
00:22:32You want the whole story? We got time?
00:22:34How much film you guys got?
00:22:36He doesn't have a fear of flying.
00:22:38He's claustrophobic.
00:22:40So, when he was coaching, he flew because he had to.
00:22:44So, he was on a flight from Tampa.
00:22:47When the door closes, he says he had a panic attack.
00:22:52I'm either going to get up, rip the door open, and jump out, or I'm going to gut it out.
00:22:58And I said, well, I'll gut it out.
00:23:01And I said, if we land and I'm still alive, I'll never get on an airplane again.
00:23:06And I didn't.
00:23:08That was in 1980.
00:23:10Never mention anything about what happened.
00:23:14Never has to this day.
00:23:20So, he started traveling by train.
00:23:23Get on up here, coach.
00:23:24Come on.
00:23:26You're on by the window.
00:23:28You really do do this.
00:23:30It's the only way.
00:23:32The wheels never leave the ground.
00:23:35Amtrak is owned by our government.
00:23:37So, it takes 72 hours to get from coast to coast.
00:23:42So, it just took a long time.
00:23:44They were not reliable.
00:23:45So, I'd go outside, and they'd come in, and I'd go in the locker room, and they'd go in the
00:23:49dressing room.
00:23:49So, two hours.
00:23:50There was a shoot where John needed to get somewhere quickly, and CBS rented a tour bus for him.
00:23:56And it happened to be Dolly Parton's tour bus that she rented out.
00:23:59And I remember him saying, we need to get ourselves one of these.
00:24:04And I thought, that's it.
00:24:05That's the answer.
00:24:06I want a bus.
00:24:09That's the first bus we went on the trip.
00:24:12Right on the way across the...
00:24:13Yep.
00:24:14It says, Madden Cruiser.
00:24:17That was the bus.
00:24:37It was home to me for 23 years.
00:24:41And I enjoyed every last minute of it.
00:24:44You know, I might have made a wrong turn somewhere, but coach never said anything.
00:24:48Because he knew that I cared about what I was doing.
00:24:51I cared about him.
00:24:52I cared about the bus.
00:24:53And we made some great trips.
00:25:00The one thing about John Madden that I so appreciate is that he stopped to smell the flowers.
00:25:11When I got to Sports Illustrated in June 1989, one of the stories, one of my passion projects was,
00:25:17I wanted to ride the bus across country with John Madden.
00:25:24John Madden, 54, has a job most of us would love to have.
00:25:33He sleeps as late as he wants and wears whatever clothes he wants almost every day of his life.
00:25:43He has to be somewhere with a tie-on for only three hours a week.
00:25:49To do this job, he crisscrosses the United States six months a year in the greatest bus you've ever seen.
00:25:58What I've learned traveling around is this.
00:26:01People are nice.
00:26:03You go to a big city and you hear the world is going to hell.
00:26:07But it's not true.
00:26:08Small parts of it are.
00:26:10The whole isn't.
00:26:12You get out there and it makes you feel better about America.
00:26:17The thing works.
00:26:26When you don't have to pretend, when you don't have to think, okay, now what am I going to say
00:26:32here?
00:26:32He never had to do that because he was always going to talk like he was talking to a guy
00:26:38sitting right in front of him and explaining the game to him.
00:26:42He gets his depth and sets up at a point just about behind his right tackle.
00:26:49John worked with a number of play-by-play people.
00:26:52Hi, everybody.
00:26:53I'm Gary Bender along with John Madden.
00:26:55Dick Stockton.
00:26:56Vince Scully.
00:26:57John working with you has already improved my posture.
00:26:59I worked with Lindsay Nelson.
00:27:01I worked with Jack Buck.
00:27:03You know, when they needed someone to fill in, I was on the bench and I was there.
00:27:07Dick Vermeule said you can't learn anything from losing
00:27:11except how to lose.
00:27:12I kind of agree with Dick.
00:27:14Okay, Vin.
00:27:15I think it was, you know, finding his way.
00:27:18Once he became the number one guy, who do we want to work with John?
00:27:23And I think it was unanimous.
00:27:25It was Pat Summerall.
00:27:26Leroy Jordan, the leader of their defense, needs this to get used to.
00:27:28Pat was against this thing in the beginning of working with John.
00:27:32John was an outsider to that crew that had been there.
00:27:35Hello.
00:27:37John didn't hear the countdown that time.
00:27:39I still don't hear them now.
00:27:41Hello.
00:27:42You know, Pat was with Tom Brookshire.
00:27:43They were pals.
00:27:46Back in behind those wires and all those petitions, John Madden.
00:27:51The first year I worked with him for a couple games,
00:27:55neither one of us thought that we'd ever work together again
00:27:58because he did it for so long.
00:28:00And that, you know, I was coming in that I was always a new guy.
00:28:05The pairing of these two guys, one understated.
00:28:08It's like opening the door and looking at the world.
00:28:12And here come the 49ers.
00:28:13One who can't stop talking.
00:28:15You know, if someone's not open, he'll move to the right.
00:28:17I think he's the best in football at that.
00:28:18Now, finally, John, you having been a coach...
00:28:21I mean, it was like the first time peanut butter met Jelly.
00:28:24Super Bowl XVI.
00:28:26What a buildup.
00:28:28We've been here since Monday,
00:28:29and I felt like running down and playing.
00:28:32I have goosebumps all over.
00:28:34Pat understood it.
00:28:35Pat played the game, coached the game,
00:28:38was an analyst and a play-by-play guy.
00:28:41He knew it from every angle.
00:28:44He is hit by Stuckey.
00:28:47And dropped for a loss all the way back to...
00:28:48You know, Pat was just the perfect partner.
00:28:51You know, Pat was probably at a place in his career
00:28:53where he wanted to up his game a little bit.
00:28:55...10 from just outside to 10.
00:28:57The throw to Cooper.
00:29:00And Cooper scores for San Francisco from Montana.
00:29:04Big Earl Cooper.
00:29:07He just plays at a different level, another level,
00:29:10and he makes it look so easy.
00:29:13You know, like the rest of people...
00:29:14I mean, you struggle.
00:29:15You struggle through life to do things.
00:29:17And this guy comes in and kind of makes a joke out of it.
00:29:20He just sort of glides around and gets it done.
00:29:23Even in practice, everything he does is like that.
00:29:27His ability to describe what was going on
00:29:31and also have fun at it at the same time,
00:29:35he made everyone want to watch football.
00:29:39Women, kids, any age, didn't matter.
00:29:43He brought life to the booth
00:29:45that I would imagine he had on that same sideline.
00:29:49Now Joe Montana is saying he took the football.
00:29:52He doesn't have to control his excitement anymore.
00:29:54San Francisco, what a remarkable story.
00:29:57You know, and Pat was played right off of him.
00:29:59They were a good match.
00:30:00Good match.
00:30:04That's the greatest feeling in the world.
00:30:06That's what it's all about.
00:30:08You know, for this team, for this coach, for this honor,
00:30:11for this town, they'll never forget this day.
00:30:15There's no one like that.
00:30:17And there won't be anyone like him.
00:30:18We have this one last chance.
00:30:19I can't tell you what a joy it's been working with you.
00:30:21Well, I sure enjoy it, and I thank you for everything.
00:30:23For having to put up with all my goofy things.
00:30:27Well, all I can say to you is
00:30:28I hope the rest of the year continues to be good to you
00:30:30and may no train pass you by.
00:30:34Let's go back to Brent Musburger.
00:31:02That's John Madden summed up right there in one piece.
00:31:05I've never seen that.
00:31:09Like, this is a father bucket.
00:31:11This is a mother bucket.
00:31:12And since the last game...
00:31:13I just used it all the time.
00:31:16Sometimes it was too much.
00:31:19I know that.
00:31:20But you did that with players.
00:31:22You know, like when you were diagramming a play,
00:31:25you know, you'd be saying that this guy here,
00:31:27you know, in the tackle, you block, you cut,
00:31:29you're going to slant in behind him,
00:31:31and all that stuff.
00:31:34And there was just stuff all over the thing.
00:31:37They talk about Bill Belichick as a gym rat coach.
00:31:40And where would you think that he would keep the flag
00:31:42when he's not going to throw it?
00:31:44That's right.
00:31:45Where any head coach is a gym rat.
00:31:48I mean, that's what old coaches are.
00:31:51When you as a coach win, you get to be a genius.
00:31:55But if you look at it,
00:31:56you're a guy that was a P.E.
00:31:57You're a guy that was a P.E. major in college.
00:32:00Your best class...
00:32:01Your best class was recess.
00:32:03That's the truth.
00:32:04And then when you...
00:32:04And then you become a coach.
00:32:05...some games, then you become a genius.
00:32:07You go from being good at recess...
00:32:09...to being a genius.
00:32:10...to being a genius.
00:32:11...to being a genius.
00:32:13That's a hell of a quote.
00:32:17Yeah, look at this here.
00:32:19I see two fat guys talking football.
00:32:22And man, we just had a lot in common.
00:32:26I think he was like a regular neighborhood New Jersey guy.
00:32:31He was candid.
00:32:32He was honest.
00:32:33He was demonstrative.
00:32:35He was forthright.
00:32:36Sometimes different words would come out.
00:32:38Bams and booms.
00:32:40Give me one right in the head there.
00:32:42I love it.
00:32:42People said, you know what?
00:32:45We like this.
00:32:47Boy, can I go for a nice cold light beer from Miller.
00:32:51So I thought I'd just pop in at my favorite hangout...
00:32:53...and have one with the guys.
00:32:54While the whole gang drinks light.
00:32:56Oh, sure, there's a lot of other light beers around.
00:32:58But we all agree that light beer from Miller is terrific.
00:33:01And get there, it's less filling.
00:33:04My name's Bob Stenner.
00:33:06And I've worked with Pat and John for 21 years.
00:33:10John, he would test you.
00:33:11He would ask questions all the time.
00:33:14That's the coach in him.
00:33:15And that's the school teacher in him.
00:33:18That's the way he felt to get the most out of people.
00:33:20And he did.
00:33:22That was a great experience.
00:33:24Watching Phil, you know, going to practice.
00:33:27Madden, what do you think of that style?
00:33:29You know, where everyone gets together and everyone hangs out together.
00:33:32What's going on?
00:33:33It was just camaraderie.
00:33:35I loved it.
00:33:36When I was in junior college, I threw a baseball over.
00:33:39Ladies and gentlemen, now stepping up to throw the first ball.
00:33:43Bob Stenner!
00:33:46Right off the bus.
00:33:47It went over.
00:33:48I threw it over.
00:33:49I don't know.
00:33:51I'm just a street kid from New York, hired to be a broadcast associate.
00:33:56Where's Richard?
00:33:57CBS.
00:33:57Where's Zions?
00:33:58I find myself working with John Madden on the lead crew.
00:34:05We're on the bus, and I think we are somewhere in Wyoming.
00:34:09You know, typical, right?
00:34:12And John is getting calls from every network.
00:34:15Like he's just sitting there.
00:34:17We're going to victory for the young upstart Fox television network.
00:34:21The network that brought America Married with Children and Beverly Hills 90210
00:34:26will soon be broadcasting professional football after outmaneuvering CBS.
00:34:34I had left college to go work for CBS at Lillehammer as a B.A. with Richie Zions on hockey.
00:34:41We knew that CBS had lost the NFL.
00:34:47You're over there as a 21-year-old kid with a bunch of CBS people.
00:34:51They don't know what's going to happen in their lives.
00:34:54I remember we were in New York, and he had mentioned the fact that Fox had contacted him.
00:35:02And he said before he signed a contract, he wanted to meet Rupert Murdoch.
00:35:12Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of Fox Incorporated, says consumers want...
00:35:16With a swagger, in 1993, Murdoch walked into the network's clubhouse and declared,
00:35:22Fox is here to play.
00:35:23We want football.
00:35:26If I was looking for an American, a real American, to introduce to an Englishman or an Australian or whatever,
00:35:32it could be to John Madden.
00:35:35He wanted to be assured that we had the same standards as CBS.
00:35:40I said to him, no, we want much better.
00:35:43I'm bringing in David Hill.
00:35:45He's the greatest sports producer in the world.
00:35:49First of all, I never believed that Fox would get the NFC package of the NFL.
00:35:58Never.
00:35:58CBS never saw it coming.
00:36:00But after 38 years, the network lost the TV rights to the National Football Conference
00:36:05to a network that did not even exist seven years ago.
00:36:10Every journalist said they've paid far too much.
00:36:13The NFL's made a mistake that they're going to have John Madden looking like Bart Simpson.
00:36:19If we'd screwed up, I have no doubt the NFL would have taken that contract back from Fox.
00:36:28We didn't even have a logo.
00:36:30We didn't have a theme.
00:36:31We didn't have a studio.
00:36:32Nothing.
00:36:33And we certainly didn't have any broadcast teams.
00:36:37Well, who do we need to prove that we're legit?
00:36:40And there was only two.
00:36:42That was Pat Summerall and John Madden.
00:36:45We got hit in the bag.
00:36:48Thank you.
00:36:57I thought he was human.
00:36:59He'd take the highest bid.
00:37:03We were determined to get him.
00:37:05We paid what we had to pay.
00:37:07John signed on.
00:37:09The rest followed.
00:37:12The idea that you could be an expansion team
00:37:15and end up signing the number one player in that league.
00:37:20How does that happen?
00:37:22Does anybody have any spam?
00:37:23And then there's a line of people, like a conga line,
00:37:27following John to Fox.
00:37:29Pat Summerall, Bob's dinner.
00:37:32And now all of a sudden, Fox has all of CBS's best people.
00:37:36Six, five, four, three, two, roll 73.
00:37:44This is a Fox Sports presentation.
00:37:47For John, I viewed him as the conscience of our network.
00:37:53And it was a blank slate.
00:37:55And we hired people and we hired producers, directors, BAs, the whole thing.
00:37:59It's an...
00:38:00I look back on it now, 28 years ago, and I go,
00:38:03my God, how do we do that?
00:38:05When you hire John Madden, you have instant credibility.
00:38:10When Fox got the NFL package,
00:38:13you know, the first thing, they hired John and Pat Summerall.
00:38:15I think that made a statement to the entire country.
00:38:19Hey, we're fixing to go out there and be the very best.
00:38:23John made this business bigger and better than it had ever been.
00:38:27And then, if you just heard his voice, even in the distance,
00:38:32that was a TV you had to run to.
00:38:35As a coach, I didn't want to have a lot of rules
00:38:38because the more rules you have,
00:38:40the more chances they have to break them.
00:38:44So I had three rules.
00:38:48Number one, be on time.
00:38:50Number two, pay attention.
00:38:53And number three, when I ask you to play hard, play hard.
00:38:59I'm a kid that ended up getting an opportunity
00:39:02to get a job at Fox,
00:39:04and you walk in,
00:39:07and there are people who have been doing this
00:39:09for a very long time.
00:39:11There are people who you've been watching on television
00:39:12do this for a very long time.
00:39:15but everybody stops
00:39:17when John walks in.
00:39:22It wasn't just the fact
00:39:23that you were in the same room as them,
00:39:25but now, to a certain degree,
00:39:28you're a colleague.
00:39:31I felt like I was at the birth of a star.
00:39:37Well, I'll tell you.
00:39:37I'm going to do it again.
00:39:38I saw it develop,
00:39:40and I saw him become what he became.
00:39:42Hi, I'm John Madden.
00:39:43Hi, I'm John Madden.
00:39:44Hi, I'm John Madden.
00:39:45Hi, I'm John Madden.
00:39:47Hi, I'm John Madden.
00:39:48Now, just in case there's any confusion on the subject,
00:39:51I'm here to help you learn
00:39:52how to watch football this fall.
00:39:54First of all, you bring over all your friends.
00:39:56Television is all about human beings
00:39:58talking to human beings.
00:40:00John's magic was that he was educating the public.
00:40:06This was an occasion.
00:40:07This was an event.
00:40:09It was the great John Madden.
00:40:13I enjoyed CBS.
00:40:15Thought I'd be there forever.
00:40:18Then I lost it.
00:40:21Going to Fox,
00:40:22it was something new and different.
00:40:27That's the part I remember the most.
00:40:31That's our all-man linebackers.
00:40:33Now, here's what else is coming up.
00:40:35Here we go again.
00:40:36Wait a minute.
00:40:39Mm-hmm.
00:40:45The Outback is all Madden country.
00:40:47And out here,
00:40:48they have their own kind of tailgating.
00:40:51Outbacking.
00:40:52Check out that perfect end-over-end.
00:40:54That's all Madden.
00:40:56These seasoned pros are ready to go.
00:40:58That's all Madden.
00:40:59And there's no penalty for piling on.
00:41:01You'll always find a great steak
00:41:03and a great time
00:41:04at Outback Steakhouse.
00:41:06One thing I never hear in the Outback is,
00:41:08that's all, Madden.
00:41:11Outback Steakhouse.
00:41:12No rules, just right.
00:41:15They want to be on the cover of Madden.
00:41:17They want to be in the game, Madden.
00:41:19They want to be lifted to the highest step
00:41:22of the pedestal that you can
00:41:25from Madden.
00:41:25and all this nonsense about the Madden curse.
00:41:28It's the Madden blessing.
00:41:33Playing myself on Madden,
00:41:35it was so weird
00:41:36because I tried to run too much.
00:41:38I didn't focus on passing.
00:41:40So I went and got Brady
00:41:41and Peyton Manning
00:41:43and Drew Brees,
00:41:45and I always wanted to be a pocket passer,
00:41:47so I played with those guys.
00:41:50John Madden was the voice.
00:41:52He made me want to play
00:41:53in the National Football League.
00:42:03Well, right off the top,
00:42:06I have to ask him
00:42:07this kind of embarrassing question
00:42:08because I'm concerned
00:42:09about the graphic speed
00:42:11of 8-bit machines.
00:42:13I thought, well, you know,
00:42:14you could take out the guards
00:42:16and the tackles,
00:42:17and he just put his foot down
00:42:18immediately and said,
00:42:19If you don't have 11 against 11,
00:42:21it's not football.
00:42:22And then it was like,
00:42:23uh, yeah, oh, yeah, right.
00:42:25Then go back in this time.
00:42:29He just said,
00:42:30No, if we're going to do it,
00:42:30we're going to do it this way.
00:42:32It had to be real football to him.
00:42:35That game alone
00:42:36ended up creating millions of fans.
00:42:39You talk about people
00:42:41who have learned
00:42:41about the game of football.
00:42:42First and 10,
00:42:44three wide receivers.
00:42:45I used to watch
00:42:47the throwback games
00:42:48and they have
00:42:49Vince Lombardi
00:42:50and John Matton,
00:42:51you know, legendary coaches,
00:42:52you know, getting held up
00:42:53by their team at the time.
00:42:54So I already seen Mr. Matton.
00:42:56Like, OK, he was a coach.
00:42:58Like, he's not going to be
00:42:59a water boy
00:42:59and getting put up
00:43:00in the air like that.
00:43:02I'm not going to lie,
00:43:03I'll really lose on Matton.
00:43:04Like, if I'm playing,
00:43:05I don't really lose like that.
00:43:06Like, it's got to be somebody
00:43:06who's really good
00:43:07to make me lose.
00:43:08I'm not just going to lose.
00:43:12I think if you look at the game
00:43:14and the evolution is a game,
00:43:15you know,
00:43:16the pro football game changes.
00:43:19As we've grown,
00:43:21the game has gotten faster.
00:43:23It's played at a faster pace
00:43:25and the players are faster.
00:43:31EA Sports, it's in the game.
00:43:34Well, my first encounter
00:43:35with the game,
00:43:36that's when they had
00:43:37Michael Vick on the cover.
00:43:40A younger version of myself
00:43:42and other guys,
00:43:43you know,
00:43:43we used to classic
00:43:44play with our favorite players.
00:43:45I mean,
00:43:46that's what we did
00:43:47all our lives, you know.
00:43:48It still gives you
00:43:48that little kid vibe.
00:43:50Like, I'm still a little kid
00:43:51at heart.
00:43:52And it's like, man,
00:43:53I want to go to the league
00:43:53one day.
00:43:57There's a lot of kids
00:43:58that have learned football
00:43:59by playing the Madden game
00:44:00where they'll say,
00:44:01you know,
00:44:01we ought to do it
00:44:02like they do it
00:44:03in a video game.
00:44:04And I'm thinking,
00:44:05holy moly,
00:44:06what a change.
00:44:06You know,
00:44:06it's OK to say,
00:44:08what are you doing?
00:44:08I'm going to go play Madden.
00:44:10Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:44:11yeah.
00:44:11They showed me this.
00:44:12It's dope.
00:44:13Like,
00:44:14what Jackson's done
00:44:15in and out
00:44:16and back and forth
00:44:17in like a video game
00:44:18right now.
00:44:18He keeps it
00:44:19to the end zone.
00:44:20Touchdown.
00:44:22When he told me,
00:44:23yeah, you're the guy
00:44:24who was choosing this year,
00:44:25I'm like, what?
00:44:26Like, I almost cried.
00:44:27I don't cry.
00:44:28I just ain't like
00:44:28my overall at the time.
00:44:29I'm like, man,
00:44:30I got to get that up.
00:44:31But, you know,
00:44:31just me being in the game,
00:44:33it's like, man,
00:44:34I'm part of Mr. John Madden's
00:44:35history, you know?
00:44:36So it was like
00:44:37one of the chosen ones.
00:44:39You know,
00:44:39those guys who's been
00:44:40on the cover
00:44:40was chosen ones.
00:44:43That was a big hit.
00:44:44All those guys
00:44:45on defense
00:44:46did a good job
00:44:47of filling the gaps
00:44:48so the running back
00:44:49had nowhere to go.
00:44:50It's mind-boggling
00:44:51that it's become
00:44:51such a big brand
00:44:52that it's just
00:44:53called Madden.
00:44:54You know,
00:44:55maybe Madden
00:44:55as a brand
00:44:56is still gonna be around
00:44:57hundreds of years from now.
00:45:00You look back
00:45:01and you realize
00:45:02that, you know,
00:45:03how long ago
00:45:03that was,
00:45:05you know,
00:45:05what the game was
00:45:06and you're kind of
00:45:07like what you were
00:45:08at the time.
00:45:09Time out.
00:45:10Boom.
00:45:10Tough act
00:45:11in Tenactin.
00:45:12You see,
00:45:12Tenactin cures
00:45:13even...
00:45:13John was starting
00:45:14to become
00:45:15one of the most
00:45:16sought-after pitchmen
00:45:17in sports.
00:45:18Really, at the time,
00:45:19it was Michael Jordan
00:45:21and John Madden.
00:45:23There were always
00:45:24networks reaching out
00:45:26saying,
00:45:27is there any chance
00:45:28to get Madden?
00:45:29Now you're talking.
00:45:30And it opened
00:45:31the Dick Ebersole door,
00:45:33which once that door opens,
00:45:35forget about it.
00:45:35He appeals to your son
00:45:37or your grandson,
00:45:39uncle,
00:45:40or your grandfather.
00:45:41He appeals to all
00:45:42these different people.
00:45:45boom!
00:45:46I mean,
00:45:47you know,
00:45:47John was his own
00:45:48sound effects machine.
00:45:49Who else ever did that before?
00:45:50John made it humane.
00:45:53The first time
00:45:54I really spent time
00:45:55with John
00:45:56is when he,
00:45:57for whatever wonderful,
00:45:59bizarre reason,
00:46:00agreed to my invitation
00:46:01for him to host
00:46:02Saturday Night Live
00:46:03in its heyday.
00:46:06Everything was going
00:46:07so well.
00:46:08That was my first
00:46:09Super Bowl
00:46:10with Pat
00:46:11and then Dick
00:46:12Ebersole
00:46:13wanted me to do
00:46:14a Saturday Night Live.
00:46:16So I said,
00:46:17yeah,
00:46:17I'll do it.
00:46:18Yeah.
00:46:19Hey,
00:46:19this is going to be
00:46:20a great show.
00:46:20I've been practicing
00:46:21with the team all week.
00:46:22They're terrific.
00:46:23He takes a $50 bill
00:46:25off the top
00:46:25and he goes,
00:46:26wah!
00:46:27And I'm looking at that
00:46:28and I'm saying,
00:46:28oh, that is weird now.
00:46:30We were always
00:46:31looking for people
00:46:32who, you know,
00:46:32stretched the boundaries
00:46:33and I always believed
00:46:35in eclectic.
00:46:36I mean,
00:46:36so does Lorne Michaels
00:46:37to this day.
00:46:38You don't think
00:46:38I'm going in there
00:46:39for 35 cents, do you?
00:46:41Oh.
00:46:47I think you can say
00:46:48John's fearless
00:46:49and if he is afraid,
00:46:51he does a hell of a job
00:46:52of disguising it.
00:47:00There's never been
00:47:01anybody like him
00:47:02before.
00:47:03and I can guarantee
00:47:04you there will never
00:47:05be anybody like him again.
00:47:08Taken in the end zone
00:47:10by McAllister
00:47:11and McAllister
00:47:12is going to come out
00:47:13with it.
00:47:14Figuring he has
00:47:15nothing to lose.
00:47:16McAllister coming
00:47:16down the sideline
00:47:18and McAllister...
00:47:19Oh, you can feel it
00:47:20because, you know,
00:47:21if there was a play...
00:47:23Can you believe this?
00:47:25And it had, like,
00:47:26a seminal ending.
00:47:28That is unbelievable.
00:47:30We've got Ray Lewis
00:47:31through a block as well.
00:47:33Any time you have contact,
00:47:36there was always...
00:47:37You know, he pulls up there
00:47:38and boom!
00:47:39He hits that guy.
00:47:40Boom!
00:47:41I've got to do one of yours.
00:47:42Boom!
00:47:43Boom!
00:47:44Boom!
00:47:44Boom!
00:47:45Boom!
00:47:46That's one that loosens your teeth.
00:47:48That might have been one.
00:47:49I remember that one, too.
00:47:51Boom!
00:47:53How's that one?
00:47:54That was awesome.
00:47:56That was my first boom ever.
00:48:01I had a great trip with him
00:48:02on the Madden bus
00:48:04early on
00:48:05as I was commissioner.
00:48:06We went to, I think,
00:48:07five or six different
00:48:07training camps.
00:48:09You get out at a rest stop
00:48:11with Coach Madden,
00:48:12everybody,
00:48:13from all over.
00:48:14We couldn't get it
00:48:14back on the bus.
00:48:17How are you?
00:48:18Very good.
00:48:18How are you?
00:48:19I'm doing great.
00:48:20Doing great.
00:48:21What do you have for?
00:48:22No, just going through.
00:48:26Sometimes I just met them.
00:48:27They just follow us
00:48:28and follow us
00:48:29until we park
00:48:29to just see him
00:48:31get off the bus, you know.
00:48:44Coach was a total
00:48:48celebrity,
00:48:49beyond celebrity.
00:48:50That's the way
00:48:51people treated him.
00:48:53John
00:48:54was in an exclusive world,
00:48:56but he was very inclusive.
00:48:58Yeah, that's my flavor.
00:48:58Oh, yeah.
00:48:59People would come up
00:49:00and talk to him
00:49:01in the restaurants,
00:49:02and he wasn't in a hurry.
00:49:03Thank you, man.
00:49:04Appreciate it.
00:49:05Okay.
00:49:05Good luck, Packers.
00:49:06Hey, thank you.
00:49:07Go ahead.
00:49:10John's style,
00:49:11if I had one word,
00:49:12I would say connectivity.
00:49:14He knew how to connect.
00:49:16He knew the big city life.
00:49:17He knew the football life.
00:49:19But I think when he went out there
00:49:20in the country,
00:49:21he connected to these people.
00:49:23You're going down to
00:49:23Packer County tomorrow?
00:49:24Yeah.
00:49:25On our way to Madison.
00:49:26I always wanted to talk
00:49:27to the local people,
00:49:29and I wanted to talk
00:49:30about what they did.
00:49:33I remember one day
00:49:34I'm talking to a dairy farmer.
00:49:37When you're a dairy farmer,
00:49:38you don't get a day off.
00:49:39You have to melt
00:49:40those cows every day.
00:49:42and I thought,
00:49:44I think this game
00:49:45of football is serious,
00:49:47but other people
00:49:48have serious things.
00:49:51It was just things like that.
00:49:53It's like being
00:49:53on top of the world.
00:49:55You find out
00:49:56how the country
00:49:57is made.
00:50:12We had an instant
00:50:13connection.
00:50:14Are you still on that?
00:50:15Can you tell me
00:50:16the Christmas guy
00:50:16got a drink?
00:50:16And he flew up there
00:50:17so we could tell Bob
00:50:18he got a drink.
00:50:18I was really young,
00:50:20mid-20s,
00:50:21and he's sort of
00:50:22this godlike figure.
00:50:26You got my drift.
00:50:29Anyone you talk to,
00:50:30they love him
00:50:31for a different reason.
00:50:33But when it comes down
00:50:34to it,
00:50:35the beauty of him
00:50:36is just how down-to-earth
00:50:37and genuine he is
00:50:38despite everything
00:50:39he's achieved.
00:50:40Me personally?
00:50:45We just connected
00:50:46on a really human level,
00:50:48which is rare,
00:50:49I think,
00:50:49in this business.
00:50:51Oh, no!
00:50:52No!
00:50:53You have to oppress him
00:50:54and you know...
00:50:56No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:50:57But then, you know...
00:50:58Wait a minute.
00:50:58Here, let me coach you up.
00:51:00See how soft-spoken
00:51:00he is and with a smile?
00:51:02I don't think
00:51:03I've ever seen this.
00:51:04Oh, gosh!
00:51:08That's it, that's it.
00:51:09Good, good, Melissa.
00:51:10Hands up!
00:51:12I broke his rhythm.
00:51:14It's a lot easier
00:51:15to complete
00:51:15when Melissa's
00:51:16not on defense.
00:51:18I need to fine-tune
00:51:18my technique.
00:51:20He was always
00:51:21giving me confidence
00:51:22and treating me
00:51:24like I was
00:51:25one of the guys.
00:51:26For him to believe in me,
00:51:29I mean,
00:51:29that's everything.
00:51:36We come here
00:51:37on a glorious quest.
00:51:39A search for that
00:51:40which can be found
00:51:41nowhere else.
00:51:43Where
00:51:44in the trenches
00:51:45where mighty men clash?
00:51:47Amidst the echoes
00:51:49of glory's past?
00:51:51High atop Olympus?
00:51:53No!
00:51:54Oh, this is our quest.
00:51:57This is what football
00:51:58is all about.
00:51:59High atop Olympus?
00:52:01This is the day.
00:52:03Now all I got to do
00:52:04is play that nacho guy.
00:52:07Omaha!
00:52:08Yeah!
00:52:09My grandfather
00:52:10was a huge football fan,
00:52:12obviously.
00:52:13Loved watching
00:52:13his grandchildren play.
00:52:15In my rookie year,
00:52:17we weren't very good,
00:52:18obviously,
00:52:193-13.
00:52:20It's like every other week
00:52:21he would ask me,
00:52:23are Madden Summerall
00:52:24doing the game Sunday?
00:52:25I said,
00:52:26Papa,
00:52:26no, they're not.
00:52:28We're playing the Bengals
00:52:28who are 1-9.
00:52:30Madden and Summerall
00:52:31just don't do
00:52:32those games.
00:52:35Next thing you know,
00:52:36we were playing
00:52:37the Cowboys.
00:52:38They, of course,
00:52:38had Aikman,
00:52:40Emmett,
00:52:41Dion.
00:52:41That was a big deal.
00:52:43But the Madden
00:52:44Summerall
00:52:45combination coming to town
00:52:47was just as big.
00:52:48You think of
00:52:49Peyton Manning
00:52:50and he reminds you
00:52:51so much of his dad,
00:52:52Archie Manning,
00:52:52and what a job they did
00:52:54in raising him.
00:52:55I mean,
00:52:55he's what it's all about.
00:52:57And he's kind of
00:52:58my new favorite player
00:53:00if that makes sense.
00:53:01It does.
00:53:02And I can see why.
00:53:05No,
00:53:06it was a great memory.
00:53:07It was a great,
00:53:08in our building,
00:53:09we felt like
00:53:10we have a chance
00:53:11to be something special.
00:53:12But we can't go out there
00:53:14and say that.
00:53:15But when John Madden
00:53:17comes in
00:53:17and says it,
00:53:19okay,
00:53:20this must be real.
00:53:21They're on their way
00:53:22to something big,
00:53:23to something special.
00:53:24This will be
00:53:25Thanksgiving
00:53:26John Madden style.
00:53:27Those are the only
00:53:28two things you need.
00:53:29There's a turkey to eat
00:53:30and a football to throw.
00:53:32What else a guy needs?
00:53:35Which turkey is this?
00:53:36This is a turducken.
00:53:37This is a turducken.
00:53:38It's turkey,
00:53:39dressing,
00:53:40duck,
00:53:42dressing,
00:53:43chicken.
00:53:44Huh.
00:53:44First glance,
00:53:45it's a turkey,
00:53:46but if you look a little deeper,
00:53:47there's more to this bird.
00:53:48In 1997,
00:53:50John Madden was coming
00:53:51to New Orleans
00:53:52to call a Saints game.
00:53:54Local radio personality
00:53:55said,
00:53:56wouldn't it be nice
00:53:56if John Madden
00:53:57would try this turducken?
00:53:58and the next thing you know,
00:54:01we're bringing
00:54:01the turducken to the game.
00:54:03The scores and highlights
00:54:04of all the other games
00:54:05have been some surprises today,
00:54:07including that turducken.
00:54:12Turducken.
00:54:13It smelled so good,
00:54:15so I just started grabbing it,
00:54:17pulling it apart.
00:54:19Oh, man,
00:54:19I just ate it.
00:54:20Because it's all boneless.
00:54:21Yeah.
00:54:22About a week later,
00:54:23I get a phone call
00:54:23from Fox Sports.
00:54:25They say,
00:54:25Glenn,
00:54:25John Madden
00:54:26wants the turducken
00:54:26to be the official food.
00:54:28for the All Madden team.
00:54:29There it is.
00:54:30We're selling like
00:54:31250 turduckens
00:54:32for Thanksgiving.
00:54:33Hey, Mr. Madden,
00:54:33Mr. Summerall,
00:54:34Happy Thanksgiving, fellas.
00:54:35We were doing
00:54:366,000 turduckens
00:54:37the following year
00:54:39just because of John Madden.
00:54:40Thanksgiving is a traditional day.
00:54:43When John Madden speaks,
00:54:43people listen to me.
00:54:44Football game
00:54:45and turkey legs
00:54:46and turduckens
00:54:47and you're great football players.
00:54:50All Madden turducken,
00:54:51you know.
00:54:52Doesn't get any better than this.
00:54:53Let's talk football.
00:54:54That's why we're here,
00:54:55after all.
00:55:09Yes, big
00:55:12and surprisingly fast.
00:55:14He could run.
00:55:17Some of the years are fuzzy,
00:55:19but I've known John
00:55:20since the third grade
00:55:21and we've been
00:55:23best of friends
00:55:23all that time.
00:55:25You know, offense,
00:55:26you have 11 guys
00:55:27and they all have to be
00:55:29in the same page.
00:55:30I mean, the ends
00:55:30have to run the pass pattern,
00:55:32the backs have to go
00:55:32where they're supposed to go.
00:55:34The quarterback has to
00:55:35read and do the whole thing.
00:55:36John was a lineman.
00:55:36But the most important thing
00:55:38are those big offensive linemen.
00:55:40The guys in the trenches.
00:55:41No, no, let me stretch it.
00:55:43John is a lineman.
00:55:45You can tell
00:55:46by the shirts
00:55:47that he wears
00:55:47what he had
00:55:48for breakfast,
00:55:49lunch, and dinner.
00:55:50It's all right here,
00:55:51right on him.
00:55:53Start going this way.
00:55:55That's about
00:55:56a thousand pound
00:55:57a guy going that way.
00:55:58He was the first broadcaster
00:56:00to really pay attention
00:56:02to the offensive line.
00:56:04He identifies
00:56:05with all the offensive linemen
00:56:08in particular
00:56:08and defensive linemen.
00:56:09Because really,
00:56:10that's where the game
00:56:11is played.
00:56:12And then his childhood pal
00:56:14John Robinson said,
00:56:16you know,
00:56:16you should do your own
00:56:17all-pro team,
00:56:18like Madden sort of guys.
00:56:21It's a good place.
00:56:23It's a good place.
00:56:24It's a good place.
00:56:25It's a good place.
00:56:27We had a clear idea
00:56:29of who the Madden team was.
00:56:32Anybody that would hit
00:56:34was tough.
00:56:36The guys were a little squirrely.
00:56:38He loved.
00:56:38He'd tell them,
00:56:39you're one of my kind of guys.
00:56:41Good evening.
00:56:42Dan Rather reporting
00:56:43from New York.
00:56:44Tonight,
00:56:44after months of intense lobbying,
00:56:46an eager nation
00:56:47now waits his first word
00:56:48of this year's
00:56:49all-Madden team.
00:56:51And here is John Madden.
00:56:53Well, we're getting ready
00:56:54to announce
00:56:55the annual all-Madden team.
00:56:56And we do have one rule.
00:56:58And the only rule is
00:57:00that...
00:57:01Being tough,
00:57:02having passion
00:57:03about the game.
00:57:03Well, that's the thing
00:57:04that you miss in football.
00:57:06You know...
00:57:06Rough and tumble,
00:57:07get in your face.
00:57:08Always chomping in the bit.
00:57:09He's ready to go.
00:57:10They were like
00:57:10the neighborhood bullies.
00:57:12Number one,
00:57:12you have to be willing
00:57:13to get dirty.
00:57:13You have to be willing...
00:57:14You're gonna bruise yourself.
00:57:15You're gonna hurt yourself.
00:57:16You're gonna play
00:57:17with a little pain.
00:57:21It was like
00:57:22a biker game.
00:57:23Guys on the
00:57:24all-Madden team
00:57:25play with broken legs.
00:57:27Torn tendon
00:57:27and a fracture.
00:57:28Snap,
00:57:28just like a pencil.
00:57:29Guy that don't mind
00:57:30getting his uniform dirty.
00:57:31Guy that don't mind
00:57:32getting hit.
00:57:33If I make
00:57:33the all-Madden team,
00:57:35I've done something
00:57:36special
00:57:36in a crazy way.
00:57:40Look at that shot.
00:57:41Boom, boom.
00:57:42Guy's going backwards.
00:57:43I think there was
00:57:44a lot of pride
00:57:45being named
00:57:45for the all-Madden team
00:57:46because that meant
00:57:47you were a tough,
00:57:48hard-nosed football player.
00:57:50It means I play
00:57:50the game the right way.
00:57:52It's through
00:57:52a coach's eyes.
00:57:54That was a badge honor.
00:57:55The opportunity to play
00:57:56was worth the pain
00:57:58of a broken leg.
00:57:59You don't get
00:58:00any better than that.
00:58:01John,
00:58:02he reminds me
00:58:03that football was fun.
00:58:08and action.
00:58:09Hi, I'm John Madden.
00:58:11You know what I love
00:58:11about the NFL
00:58:12is every Sunday
00:58:14you get to watch
00:58:15the greatest players
00:58:16in the world.
00:58:17I've been seeing
00:58:17Troy Aikman, boom,
00:58:18get back there
00:58:19and pass to a Michael Irvin.
00:58:20And it's not only
00:58:21those guys,
00:58:22not only the big names,
00:58:23but it's the guys
00:58:24like Nate Newton,
00:58:25the Dallas Cowboys
00:58:26in the trenches.
00:58:30I remember
00:58:31when I first met
00:58:31Coach Madden,
00:58:32man,
00:58:32I was trying to find
00:58:34our locker room.
00:58:36All of a sudden,
00:58:37here's a crowd
00:58:37of people coming.
00:58:38And I look up
00:58:39and I see Coach Madden.
00:58:40And when he looked at me,
00:58:42I said,
00:58:42what's up, Coach Madden?
00:58:43He said,
00:58:43what's up, Nate Newton?
00:58:46I said, what?
00:58:47He said,
00:58:47yeah, I know you, man.
00:58:48He said,
00:58:48you're a decent ball player.
00:58:50Nate Newton here.
00:58:50They catch him on the slant.
00:58:52He just drives his...
00:58:53Coach Madden called your name.
00:58:54And you're talking about
00:58:55somebody who was so hyped.
00:58:57Look at,
00:58:57now you're talking.
00:58:58I mean,
00:58:58this is football.
00:58:59When you've got steam
00:59:00coming out of your head
00:59:01and your mouth,
00:59:02now you're talking football.
00:59:03You're controlling
00:59:04that offensive line.
00:59:05This is what it's all about.
00:59:07It's a playoff game.
00:59:08If you win,
00:59:09you go to the championship.
00:59:10What are you talking about?
00:59:13Over the course
00:59:14of my 12-year career,
00:59:15we were able to win
00:59:16three world championships
00:59:17and a lot of playoff games.
00:59:18He does all these things.
00:59:20This guy in the second half,
00:59:22Troy Aitman.
00:59:23John Madden narrated my career.
00:59:25And I don't know
00:59:26that it gets any better than that.
00:59:28So I feel very fortunate.
00:59:29I know my teammates
00:59:30feel fortunate
00:59:31to have John Madden
00:59:32and Pat Summerall
00:59:33as the soundtrack
00:59:34to the highlights
00:59:35of our career.
00:59:36Boy, Nate just took his guy
00:59:38and just, boom,
00:59:39put him right on the ground
00:59:40about five yards sideways.
00:59:41As time went on,
00:59:42he would call me in
00:59:43for interviews.
00:59:44Him and Coach Summerall,
00:59:45they would call me in
00:59:46for meetings, man.
00:59:47And whether he called me in
00:59:48or not,
00:59:48I would just wait
00:59:49till he'd finish
00:59:50interviewing other players.
00:59:52I would just talk
00:59:53with his bus guys,
00:59:54taking sandwiches.
00:59:56I got into the turkey legs.
00:59:58I got into the turkey legs.
00:59:58I got into the turkey legs.
00:59:58I got into the turkey legs.
00:59:59I got into the turkey legs.
01:00:00I got into the turkey legs.
01:00:01And then you guys
01:00:02get the whole bird, too, Nate.
01:00:04Yeah.
01:00:04We built a bomb from there.
01:00:06That thing blossom, man.
01:00:07What about the other guys?
01:00:08It can't be an all-Madden team
01:00:10without Nate Newton.
01:00:12Next thing you know,
01:00:13I'm all-Madden, baby.
01:00:15I'm all-Madden.
01:00:24That's what I feel like
01:00:26hitting today.
01:00:27I need to be f***ing that.
01:00:29Cloud Dean.
01:00:30Hey, McGirt.
01:00:32We're going to cloud Dean.
01:00:35What about that?
01:00:36People would get upset
01:00:39if they didn't make
01:00:40the All-Madden team.
01:00:41Oh, man, I'm a good player.
01:00:43I'm saying, oh, man,
01:00:44you ain't nothing
01:00:45unless you make
01:00:46the All-Madden team.
01:00:48Six-foot-three,
01:00:50lean and mean.
01:00:51You gotta be a renegade
01:00:53to make the Madden team.
01:00:56Hey, baby, let's go out there
01:00:58like a bunch of crazed dogs.
01:00:59Have some fun.
01:01:00First, I tried to block him
01:01:02with a running back,
01:01:03and that didn't work.
01:01:08And then I had a slide to tackle,
01:01:10and that didn't work.
01:01:13I always said a defensive player
01:01:16can never win a game
01:01:17by himself.
01:01:18Then I did a Thanksgiving Day game
01:01:21in Detroit.
01:01:22Lawrence Taylor won the game
01:01:24by himself.
01:01:25Detroit.
01:01:26Detroit.
01:01:27Outside, he broke.
01:01:28Hitting off by Lawrence Taylor.
01:01:30Lawrence Taylor
01:01:31going to the sideline.
01:01:32Don't think he can't win it.
01:01:34Lawrence Taylor's going to go on.
01:01:36There are some defensive players
01:01:38that are great players.
01:01:39They play well.
01:01:40There are some that are great enough,
01:01:43good enough to dominate a game.
01:01:45They win by themselves,
01:01:47and that's the type of defensive player
01:01:49Lawrence Taylor is.
01:01:52Okay, he tells the truth, too.
01:01:56I don't have to run every Sunday,
01:01:59and I don't have to do this every Sunday,
01:02:00but John Madden may,
01:02:02because I know John Madden's calling the game.
01:02:04I got to give him what he gives me.
01:02:07I don't know what else to say.
01:02:08I mean, hey, listen,
01:02:09you don't want to let your teammates down,
01:02:12but John Madden,
01:02:13if he's on your side,
01:02:14you don't want to let him down either.
01:02:17We'll continue with the All-Madden team
01:02:19after this.
01:02:20He goes right in that hole
01:02:27where the linebacker blitzed from.
01:02:29See, there's the blitz.
01:02:30Emmitt Smith goes boom!
01:02:32Oh, that was terrible.
01:02:33I could do better than that.
01:02:35Boom!
01:02:36A little bit better.
01:02:38You know, it's such a special thing
01:02:40because you don't get an opportunity
01:02:44to see history.
01:02:45You get an opportunity
01:02:47to read about history,
01:02:49and you get an opportunity
01:02:52to think about it,
01:02:53to dream about it.
01:02:54You don't get a lot of opportunities
01:02:55to sit in the same room with it.
01:03:01I can't remember the exact words,
01:03:03but I approached my dad and I said,
01:03:05you know, I'd love to spend some time
01:03:06with you on the bus.
01:03:09Taking care of the guys.
01:03:10Feed them.
01:03:11I just wanted to spend time on the road.
01:03:13there's something about sitting in the bus.
01:03:15Got to know Willie Yarbrough.
01:03:16Everything in here?
01:03:17Yeah, everything's in there.
01:03:18All right.
01:03:18Going through some town.
01:03:20They're going to my dad's favorite restaurant.
01:03:22$50.
01:03:22You know what I mean?
01:03:22Just hanging with my dad.
01:03:24This is $50.
01:03:25Everyone's wanting one.
01:03:26It's no surprise to me
01:03:27that he actually ended up being loved
01:03:30by millions of Americans.
01:03:34You can't rubber stamp John Madden, right?
01:03:38I don't know how you do that.
01:03:42You get to eat in Sbarro's.
01:03:46Come a long way.
01:03:48I loved every second with Madden.
01:03:50I loved all the bus rides.
01:03:51We watched film.
01:03:53We talked football.
01:03:55We talked about leadership.
01:03:57Where to eat.
01:03:59Did you eat today?
01:04:00Yeah, I got a bagel.
01:04:01And I think the Hall of Fame
01:04:03was really a big deal for John.
01:04:05And when I first started working with him,
01:04:07I couldn't believe he wasn't in it.
01:04:09We're doing Super Bowl XL.
01:04:12John's a finalist this year.
01:04:14It's the Saturday before the game
01:04:16and we're in Pittsburgh's locker room.
01:04:18And so I just turn the TV on
01:04:19and NFL Network pops up.
01:04:21Pro Football Hall of Fame class of...
01:04:24The first year I was eligible,
01:04:26I was a finalist.
01:04:27And then after a while,
01:04:29I wasn't even in it.
01:04:31So I've got my camera
01:04:32and I'm just thinking, you know,
01:04:33maybe something's gonna happen.
01:04:35Troy Aikman.
01:04:37You know, Larry Carson.
01:04:41John Madden.
01:04:43Holy boy.
01:04:45The room exploded
01:04:47and we're like in this big hug.
01:04:50The joy on his face
01:04:52and that hug that Mike memorialized forever,
01:04:55it's like one of the great moments in my life.
01:04:58not a photographic masterpiece.
01:05:01It's kind of cool from where we come from.
01:05:04...right and end up behind his right tackle.
01:05:07He starts out to the left,
01:05:09reverse pivots,
01:05:11and rolls, gets his depth,
01:05:12and sets up at a point just about...
01:05:15Now to the podium.
01:05:16The latest inductee into the Hall of Fame,
01:05:19the class of 2006,
01:05:20the legendary Raider head coach, John.
01:05:22I waited a long time.
01:05:23and then when you hear your name...
01:05:25Ladies and gentlemen,
01:05:26the great John Madden.
01:05:28I mean, that's real.
01:05:30You know, you always think of,
01:05:32you know, what it would be like
01:05:33if you're ever enshrined into the Hall of Fame
01:05:36and people say,
01:05:37what will you do when you get up to the podium?
01:05:39And I tell them, I don't know.
01:05:41I'll tell you when I get up there.
01:05:43And right now, I don't have a lot of...
01:05:45I mean, I got like numb.
01:05:47You know, I'm not a big person for,
01:05:49you know, what's your legacy,
01:05:51what are you...
01:05:52I don't...
01:05:52I think that's for other people.
01:05:54With my coaching career,
01:05:56I was satisfied.
01:06:06It was one of the great moments of my life.
01:06:13When most presenters put the jacket on,
01:06:15you know, it's kind of done with a handshake.
01:06:17And I said, we're going in for a hug.
01:06:28That was a moment between the three of us.
01:06:31It was a family moment.
01:06:32And my mom, she'd been on stage too,
01:06:35but it was a moment that will always,
01:06:37always stay with me.
01:06:40You know, they talk about how hard coaches work.
01:06:44They work 18, 20 hours a day.
01:06:46They sleep on a couch.
01:06:47They don't come home.
01:06:48And yeah, that's not the hard job.
01:06:50The hard job is the coach's wife.
01:06:52Believe me.
01:06:53What did we sacrifice?
01:06:55Well, we sacrificed his time as a father.
01:07:00We sacrificed the fact that he wasn't there a lot.
01:07:04So, you know, when anyone is appreciated...
01:07:07But what did we gain?
01:07:08Appreciate the wife.
01:07:09And I had the greatest.
01:07:10And I have the greatest in Virginia.
01:07:11Thank you.
01:07:12Well, we gained a lot of fun.
01:07:16So it paid off.
01:07:17Stand up.
01:07:18You deserve it.
01:07:19You deserve it.
01:07:24And my two sons, Mike and Joe,
01:07:27I'm so proud of them.
01:07:28They're not only my two sons,
01:07:30but they're my two best friends.
01:07:34And, you know, just everything that they do.
01:07:37I used to, you know, when they were kids,
01:07:40I used to take them to practice on Saturdays,
01:07:42not take them to the football.
01:07:44So I know I'm talking to my dad,
01:07:46but I don't want to say anything now
01:07:48that I don't convey every day.
01:07:50and, you know, I love my dad.
01:07:56You know, I've been proud.
01:08:01You know, I've been known as John Madden's son
01:08:03my whole life.
01:08:05And that's, you know,
01:08:06that's been a pretty cool thing.
01:08:11Just, I'm just proud.
01:08:13I mean, everything that he's done
01:08:17and the way, the way that he does it.
01:08:23You know, he coached
01:08:25with a passion and love for the game
01:08:27that's admirable.
01:08:35He went into broadcasting
01:08:38and changed the way football was broadcast,
01:08:41if not greater sports.
01:08:43You know, even when he was selling
01:08:45light beer from Miller, you know,
01:08:46breaking through the paper.
01:08:47This game isn't over yet.
01:08:48I caught that ball.
01:08:49You changed the way America celebrates Thanksgiving
01:08:52for crying out loud.
01:08:54Turducken is now a household word.
01:09:00And these things sometimes come to me
01:09:03from the outside, but, you know,
01:09:06because I've been so close to it.
01:09:15You know, Dad, I've been proud
01:09:17of everything you've ever done.
01:09:20And all of your careers
01:09:22have been Hall of Fame careers.
01:09:24And, uh,
01:09:26and even, even in your role as father,
01:09:30you're a Hall of Fame guy.
01:09:50My message is, is the same now
01:09:52as it would have been back then.
01:09:54I love you, coach.
01:09:55Anytime I got to go into a production meeting with you,
01:09:57we had a blast.
01:09:59And I'm sure you'll chuckle
01:10:01thinking back to those times.
01:10:05Yeah.
01:10:0830 seconds is a while.
01:10:10Coach, you have meant so much to the NFL,
01:10:13so much to the game of football,
01:10:15and so much to me.
01:10:16Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
01:10:24I always wanted to be on the cover of Madden.
01:10:26I think every player does.
01:10:28Thanks for creating a love for football for me,
01:10:31because this is what you dream about
01:10:32when you're a little kid.
01:10:37Coach, you know I love you,
01:10:39and I know you love me,
01:10:40and we'll leave it at that.
01:10:47Not everybody can say that they were the truth
01:10:50around exhausting the game of football.
01:10:53That's your truth.
01:11:01The seven years we spent together
01:11:03went by in 25 minutes.
01:11:05Nobody in the history of that sport
01:11:07was more important than you.
01:11:09This is good when you can see your breath.
01:11:12When you see your breath,
01:11:13it's good football weather.
01:11:14John, love you.
01:11:15I love everything that you've done
01:11:16for the game of football.
01:11:18Thank you for all the help
01:11:19that you personally have been to me.
01:11:20So, Joe, you going to play for 10 more years?
01:11:23I wish I had 10 in me.
01:11:25Congratulations on a remarkable career,
01:11:28and you'll always be Coach Madden.
01:11:32There are not many guys
01:11:33that can get to the top of one profession,
01:11:35much less two.
01:11:36You've helped me through all the ups and downs.
01:11:40I love you, man.
01:11:41The left goes to the right,
01:11:41the right goes to the left.
01:11:43This guy crosses here,
01:11:44he crosses here.
01:11:44They have no idea where we are.
01:11:46To be authentic,
01:11:47to be unique,
01:11:48and to be great at what you do,
01:11:50it just doesn't really ever come along,
01:11:53except it did with you.
01:11:57John, I so appreciate you
01:11:59as a person, as a co-worker.
01:12:02You're the most genuine person I know.
01:12:04You've influenced me in ways
01:12:06that you can't even imagine.
01:12:08It was an honor of my lifetime
01:12:09to go in in that 2006 class
01:12:12with you in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
01:12:14You always got this.
01:12:14You always know how much time there is
01:12:17and what the score is.
01:12:18Coach Madden,
01:12:19we grew up in the same area.
01:12:20Hard-nosed NorCal guys,
01:12:21I would say that.
01:12:22We've had an incredible career.
01:12:24Our game is all better for it,
01:12:25so I appreciate it.
01:12:27Then I'm saving this spot here
01:12:29for the greatest of them all,
01:12:31number 56, Warren Staley.
01:12:32John Madden looked into my heart
01:12:35and he realized what type of player I am
01:12:37and what type of person I am.
01:12:39And maybe everybody else didn't.
01:12:43John Madden made me a better player.
01:12:47Simple as that.
01:12:48Case closed.
01:12:50That's it.
01:12:56Well, that was something.
01:13:02When I hear that stuff,
01:13:06it makes me realize that
01:13:11what I didn't realize probably.
01:13:25So,
01:13:46you,
01:13:48you,
01:14:18Sous-titrage MFP.
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