John Madden Retirement

5:11 pm EST April 16th, 2009 | Media, Sports | 6 Comments

Love the guy, but probably a few years past due for that retirement. And they’re replacing him with Cris Collinsworth? Bad call, I think.

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6 Responses to “John Madden Retirement”

  1. Parthenon says:
    April 16, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Are you kidding me? Collinsworth is eons better than Madden as a color guy. Collinsworth sees the game; Madden, much as I love him, has been blathering obviousities for years.

  2. Duros62 says:
    April 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    I think he retired years ago. He just didn’t tell anyone.

  3. merl says:
    April 16, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    same here. about time he quit.

  4. James says:
    April 16, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    I don’t disagree that it’s probably a few years late, although I love Madden, but I definitely disagree about Collinsworth. If it had been anyone else, I would have been disappointed. In other news, on PTI they just said Dan Snyder is “smitten” with Mark Sanchez (quoting Wash D.C. writer). How do you feel about that?

  5. ed says:
    April 16, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    Madden is/was a horrible color commentator. And matched with perhaps the greatest play-by-play guy, Al Michaels made him look worse. He consistently got replays wrong, only to be corrected by Michaels and for all to yelling and “boom” schtick, he signified nothing.

    “If they don’t make the touchdown here, they’ll have to go for the field goal.”

    “You know, there’s fumbles and there’s fumbles, and this was a fumble.” (BTW, it wasn’t)

    Frank Caliendo is rendered relevant because Madden is/was that bad. He does/did for football color commentating what Tim McCarver does for baseball. It’s hard for me to believe he was ever a good coach. I figure that Al Davis was pulling the strings then as he has recently. That’s the only explanation. Good riddance. Get Dierdorf back in the booth. Pronto.

  6. nomad says:
    April 22, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    i hope they keep making the Madden football Xbox games, those rock