'He was football.' NFL great John Madden, a Hall of Fame coach and beloved broadcaster, has died at age 85, the NFL says.
, with his animated verbal sound effects – “Boom!” – and simple yet colorful breakdowns of the action on the field.
A couple of years later, Madden retired from coaching at 42 and found his true calling as a color analyst with CBS. He went on to work for the other three major networks, winning 16 Emmys altogether, before retiring after 30 years in the broadcast booth. He continued his education and football career at Cal Poly, and in 1958 was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles. But fate intervened when Madden suffered a knee injury in training camp, and the rest as they say is history.
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