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April 17, 2009

Madden Retires, Won’t Soon (Ever) Be Replaced

Madden Retires, Won’t Soon (Ever) Be Replaced No one does parodies of the unimportant, which is why you do what you think is a pretty decent John Madden impression, and not one of your third cousin who lives on a mink farm in the backwoods of Oregon. That he is so widely parodied by footballistas…
Culture  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 16, 2009

Madden’s legend in NFL unmatched

Madden’s legend in NFL unmatched I learned the secret of John Madden’s success in a little diner — more like a Big Boy-type restaurant — in Elko, Nev., just off Interstate 80 in the fall of 1990. Understand that Elko, like all of the middling towns in Nevada, I suppose, has a gambling operation. And…