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Will put this in the window tonight in remembrance:

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Iā€™m 43 and I know him mostly for the video games.

Tons of great memories watching Madden broadcasts with my dad. Rip.

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Being a Cowboys fan I got to see more than my share of memories of madden calling their games. He is totally entwined with many of my best memories of football.

Even when I was fortunate to go to a game, I would come home and watch the broadcast on this ancient contraption called a VCR.

If youā€™d asked me a few weeks ago if John Madden was still alive, I would have struggled to say for sure. Now itā€™s so strange, knowing he really is gone.

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Might be an argument against NFL Blitz existing (oh boy you could not make that game now), but do they just think that you couldnā€™t make a video game out of the biggest sport league in the world?

I donā€™t really get that tweet. How many concussions were prevented by kids playing Madden instead of real football?

The fun part is that is like the most Lawbro Twitter account on the entire internet

LOL Wentz. Not vaccinated because of course.

I liked Madden as a broadcaster. He wasnā€™t the most insightful commentator but he had personality and a lot of charisma. RIP

Maddenā€™s greatest impact on me was the turducken.

For me it was his analysis of Gatorade buckets

The answer is Danny Wuerffel

Wish Iā€™d remembered to post that before Madden died lol

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world bowl MVP

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https://twitter.com/KCSportsNetwork/status/1475935202417405953

Yeah I think Ingram knew exactly what was coming, and told the other guys.

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thereā€™s also more chiefs over there than steelers blocking on the snap of the ball, there are more steelers on the left side of the ball than chief defenders (edit on center angle the latter is even apparently Iā€™m blind)

so they ran a pitch to the right of course

and 11 just fell down trying to block cause 81 ended up running him over then 11 knocks over another steeler on the ground and one tackle just tried to block the safety 30 yards away from him

not sure ingram had much to do with that one, itā€™s not good all around yeesh

have to audible out of that call if you can, youā€™d like to think the QB would audible to a run to the defenses hole at left guard but maybe they donā€™t in pit.

KC has 2 guys on the line, PIT has 5, and PIT needs one yard, Iā€™m going straight up the damn middle somewhere but nope a play doomed to fail vs the defensive look

and for this to succeed you need two key blocks on the play by #'s 11 and 14. What is this shit man.

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The slot corner Sneed (38) is an absolute beast in run defense and snuffing out screens. Maybe our best player on defense after Jones and Mathieu.