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You know me like that.

Shit

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Why did he do that? Right before the New Year too!

They just had a really good documentary on him before football on Saturday. I’d guess they’ll re-run it again now that this happened. Recommend it if you missed it, some great footage and interviews.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

MILWAUKEE - Asked restaurant host:
"God, did you hear about John Madden?"
Host: "No."
Me: "Died. He killed himself."
Thought he would cry

Lived to be almost twice the amount of time Jeff Dickerson was allowed to be on this planet. Such a cosmic crapshoot

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Weird take....

How unexpected is it when an 85 year old who didn't appear to be the model of health 20 years ago passes away. More surprising that he made it to 85.

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BOOM

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my all-time favorite NFL analyst. in his prime his energy was unparalleled. he was excitable and made the game more fun to watch.

he was well parodied by MADTV as well, thanks to frank caliendo's on-point impression.

RIP. hope he got to enjoy his retirement. i want to see that doc that was made.

I loved how in the earlier Genesis games, when a player would get injured an ambulance would drive onto the field and run over any other player in its way.

Probably wasn’t masked up

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On both tonight and tomorrow on FS1.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Damn. Really loved me some John Madden.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

https://thestreamable.com/news/where-ca ... all-madden

Readily available starting January 3

The Pro Bowl should now be called the All Madden teams.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

He's unique in that everyone knew who he was. All of us remember him as an analyst while all the youngsters know him from the Madden Football video game franchise. I watched a helluva lot of games with him in the 80s and 90s. Madden/Summerall- the Bears, 49ers, Giants, Cowboys, 60 Minutes, Murder she Wrote.... Great stuff. RIP

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Yup.. That is perfect!

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https://www.backroadspubandgrill.com

Madden/Summerall was the Platonic ideal of an NFL broadcast for me. I trust that’s more so due to when I started watching regularly, but nobody’s done it better in my lifetime.

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theres been an awkward amount of john madden talk on NFL shows for months now. they probably knew he was dying.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

i can smell your house and see the yellow stained walls

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

You weren’t the game that week unless Summerall and Madden were doing it.

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You know me like that.

I confused him with John Candy when I was pretty young

I sometimes wonder if Madden and Summerall hit their stride just as the Bears started hitting theirs--or it it just seemed that way.

It was a little sad when the Bears started sucking, we either rarely heard them or heard them as the Bears were losing to Washington or someone in the playoffs

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Don't forget that the Raiders were also often the 3pm CT AFC game on NBC in the 70s while Madden was coaching.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Vaxxed and waxed

Seems like a lot of wax.

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Loved him.

RIP

Hope the Madden video games continue, with his soundbytes and shit.

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Football sound of my childhood and young adult years.

Heaven just got a little more BOOM to it today.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Pat Summerall and John Madden will always be the voices of the NFL to me. My introduction into pro football fandom coincided almost perfectly with their coming together as a team, and when I think of them calling a game I think NFC East, Chicago Bears, and the 49ers. When I think of Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson I think of late afternoon starts on the west coast, and that was great as well. For fun last night my son and I found an old Giants-Redskins game from '86, and it was a treat to listen to Summerall and Madden do their thing. It was the game where some pigeons landed on the field, and listening to him come back the pigeons between plays for the next few minutes was classic Madden, with Summerall chiming in now and then. It was perfect. Watching that old game was a real pleasure, I really miss those days of NFC football.