John Madden's Role In Professional Sports

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The Broadcast world has seen many iconic figures come into the spectrum. Baseball had Bob Costas, Basketball has had many former players come and go into the roles of key broadcaster but none of them could compare to this one man who would bring his natural talents of his voice and ability to communicate what was truly going on in a game like John Madden. John Madden had the background as a former player and coach that would give him an outlook on the game of football that no one has ever had. John was a incredibly easy person to listen to because he did not sound like some of the announcers of the time who only went by the books on how broadcasting was suppose to be presented. John Madden tested the limits of broadcasting to bring a view of the game that no one has ever presented to the NFL fans.

John madden was born April 10, 1936 in Austin, …show more content…

His first year with the team was effective because of maddens redesign of how the defense tackled the game. The Raiders made it to Super Bowl II, but lost to the Green Bay Packers. In 1969, Madden was promoted to head coach of the Raiders after The previous coach, John Rauch, had left the team because he believed that the owner Al Davis was interfering with his coaching. When Madden took over as head coach, he was only 33 years old and the youngest coach in NFL history.
John Madden was a successful head coach, spending ten years with the Raiders The raiders would win 7 division titles in those ten years and reached the playoffs eight times, and won at least ten games a season for seven seasons. In his rookie season as a coach, he posted a record of 12-1-1, and was named coach of the year. John would lead one team to a Super bowl championship in 1976 after defeating the Minnesota

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