Word: maddens
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...Madden retired from coaching after the 1978 season, citing a stomach ulcer and fatigue. In his 1984 best-selling book Hey, Wait a Minute (I wrote a book!), Madden noted that he had been so focused on football that he'd become estranged from his family, at one point thinking his 16-year-old son was twelve. But he didn't stay out of the limelight for long: in the early 1980s he became an iconic pitchman for Miller Lite, appearing in the beer's famous "tastes great, less filling" ad campaign. Madden's barely restrained enthusiasm made...
...Landry's fedora-capped visage epitomizes the strategic, brainy side of American football, John Madden's doughy, oversized figure has, for the past thirty years, embodied the game's rough and tumble soul. His gregarious manner and distinctive voice has filled tv studios, adorned advertisements and sold one of the most successful video game franchises of all time. On April 16, Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting, a trade to which his enthusiasm and folksy wisdom made him singularly well-suited. (See pictures from an NFL training camp...
...auto mechanic, Madden was born in Minnesota and grew up in Northern California. It was not a plush upbringing: A multi-sport athlete, Madden remembers taping together broken bats from a local semi-pro baseball team to use for batting practice; one of his first jobs was as a caddy. Recruited to play football at the University of Oregon, he transferred out after his first year and eventually ended up at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1958, Madden suffered a career-ending knee injury during training camp...
...assistant at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, Calif., in 1960. His idiosyncratic coaching style there and later as head coach at San Diego State made him popular among his players and gained the attention of another individualist: Al Davis, the cantankerous owner of the Oakland Raiders. Madden served as Raiders head coach from 1969-1978, during which the Raiders never had a losing season, won their division seven times and the Super Bowl in 1977. Famous for his wild sideline gestures and unruly shock of hair, Madden was a gifted team builder, taking risks with players other coaches dismissed...
...White House goes to ... Barack Obama!" - not which states he won, or how few votes determined the margin of victory in Virginia or Indiana? And the Super Bowl - would 100 million people watch it if the halftime show were virtually the whole show and, at the end, John Madden said, "The Steelers won," instead of, "This was the closest, wildest, most thrilling fourth quarter in NFL freakin' history...