faba Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Madden to join NBC on Sunday Night Football NFL.com wire reports NEW YORK (June 15, 2005) -- John Madden is joining NBC as a game analyst for the network's newly acquired Sunday Night Football, a network source told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The network scheduled an afternoon teleconference with Madden to make the announcement that he will join NBC when it begins televising football in the 2006 season, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Madden has spent the past three seasons teamed with Al Michaels on ABC's now-defunct Monday Night Football. Before joining ABC, Madden teamed with Pat Summerall to call Fox's lead game from 1994-2001. They were the top NFL announcing team on CBS for 13 seasons before that. Known for his folksy style and his love of football's grit and grime, Madden has won 14 Sports Emmys. The former Oakland Raiders coach -- he led them to a win over Minnesota in the 1977 Super Bowl -- has become a pop-culture phenomenon thanks in large part to the popularity of his video game Madden NFL Football. Since its initial release in 1989, the game has sold more than 43 million copies and become the No. 1 selling sports video game of all time. NBC is reportedly paying $600 million for a six-year contract that will allow the network to broadcast the NFL's Sunday night game starting with the 2006 season. The Sunday night game was previously shown on ESPN, which will now televise Monday Night Football. NBC also gets two first-round playoff games and the Super Bowl in 2009 and 2012 as part of the deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 espn is doing monday night football now? No more Madden and Al Michaels?? that sucks The espn crew is terrible. pat summeral and that other old guy are a bunch of stumbling worded idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 love what madden has done for the game of football but his folksy style or whatever is getting a little tiresome I will miss al michaels though. a true class act Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatsFanTX Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 NEW YORK (June 15, 2005) -- John Madden is joining NBC as a game analyst for the network's newly acquired Sunday Night Football, a network source told The Associated Press on Wednesday. John Madden is old and stale and they should just put him out to pasture. Anybody else think that Ron Jaworski would make a great color commentator? He's the best X's and 0's analyst out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 whats going to happen to Al Michaels now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 John Madden is old and stale and they should just put him out to pasture. Hello Pot. Yes meet Kettle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 John Madden is old and stale and they should just put him out to pasture. Anybody else think that Ron Jaworski would make a great color commentator? He's the best X's and 0's analyst out there. umm tx, ron jaworski is white & we don't appreciate your racist remarks anyway. I do agree with you really, he would outshine any espn analyst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Madden and Costas-hell in the broadcast booth. Will make you long for Theissmann and Maguire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormshadow19 Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Well... John is better to listen to than the old Sunday night crew. I couldn't sit through a whole game, on Sunday nights, with those morons from ESPN. I hope they're not doing the Monday games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormshadow19 Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 Madden and Costas-hell in the broadcast booth. Will make you long for Theissmann and Maguire. Not true... not if Bob announces like he did in Basketball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaborJet Posted June 15, 2005 Share Posted June 15, 2005 John Madden is old and stale and they should just put him out to pasture. Anybody else think that Ron Jaworski would make a great color commentator? He's the best X's and 0's analyst out there. I love the Monday Night Countdown show. I wish he would break down the X's and O's of more games. Unless you are at the game, you can't see what's going on down the field. Jaws explains it superbly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Add me to the list of people who know longer give a damn what Madden's blubbering a$$ does. He's the worst commentator on tv today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
124 Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 And to think I thought NBC Football couldn't get any worse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormshadow19 Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Add me to the list of people who know longer give a damn what Madden's blubbering a$$ does. He's the worst commentator on tv today. Not true... have you heard of Gary Thorne? Or Al Michaels, while doing basketball... bloody hell. And the Sunday Night Crew, collectively, for ESPN. They're all worse than Blubber Butt. But, then again, I just tune out his innane Brett Farve man love stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alk Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Not true... have you heard of Gary Thorne? Or Al Michaels, while doing basketball... bloody hell. And the Sunday Night Crew, collectively, for ESPN. They're all worse than Blubber Butt. But, then again, I just tune out his innane Brett Farve man love stuff. Sorry, I should have clarified. I only watch one sport. Football. And I still say there is nobody worse than John Madden. It's not even up for debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gun Of Bavaria Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 MADDEN SUCKS. PERIOD. He is EASILY the WORST color commentator in professional sports. His sh*t got old 10 years ago. He states nothing but the obvious. That's fine, but don't act like he's this massive football genius gracing us with his presence. He's rehashing the same garbage every other color commentator is, just with 50 times the annoyance level. The SOB has gotten so bad you almost need a translator for his drivel called English coming out of his mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Troll Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 When it comes to being a sh*tty commentator, Madden is not in the same league as Theismann and McGuire. The only person that might actually be as dumb as those two is Joe Morgan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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