John Madden, a celebrated name in the field of NFL Football carries multiple of prestigious awards & titles for his marvelous field performance both as a footballer & coach. This high flying persona formally played American football for the National Football League & also served as a color commentator pro NFL telecasts. As a head coach, he also won the Super Bowl with the NFL’s Oakland Raiders within the American Football Conference.
Hitting 78 by age, John Madden with his full birth name John Earl Madden was born on 10th of April, 1936. He is the native of Austin City, Minnesota, United Stated, where he was born & partly brought up by his parents’ Mary Margaret (Flaherty) & Madden & Earl Russell. His family was later moved to California’s Daly City, by his auto mechanic father, when John was still young. He completed middle schooling attending the Our Lady of Perpetual Help, & later continued his education at the Jefferson High School. He accomplished his graduation from Jefferson in 1954. About 5 years later, on 26th December, 1959, John made a new turn of his life, marrying his current-wife, Virginia Fields. They presently reside in the beautiful City of Pleasanton in California & share 2 sons together, Michael & Joseph Madden. Joe formally was a footballer at the Brown University whereas Mike studied at the Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he began on the university football team as a receiver.
A standout of football throughout the high school, John Madden later appeared as a player of college football both at the College of San Mateo & Oregon Ducks football ahead of switching to San Luis Obispo, California’s Cal Poly (i.e. California Polytechnic State University). At university, the young champ played both defense & offense for the Cal Poly Mustangs football while accomplishing both Bachelor’s & Master’s degree in Education in the year 1959 & 1961, respectively. During the 21st round in 1958, John was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles of NFL, but a severe knee injury a year later in training campsite concluded his playing career ahead of ever receiving a chance to come out professionally. Afterwards, he emerged as the Santa Maria based Allan Hancock College’s assistant coach in 1960 & was soon promoted to the head coach 2 years later. Developing that success, Al Davis hired John as the Oakland Raiders’ line-backers coach in the year 1967, placing him in the coaching tree of Sid Gillman. He assisted the team arrive at Super Bowl II the very season. Subsequently, the proficient persona served as a pro color analyst/ commentator on different NFL matches from 1979 throughout 2008 for all 4 of the major American TV networks, namely NBC Sports, Fox Sports, CBS Sports & of course ABC Sports. On 16th of April, 2009, John officially made an announcement about his retirement as a broadcaster for NFL after 30 long years, citing “It’s time”. Cris Collinsworth, a former wide receiver for Cincinnati Bengals was declared as his substitute.
His flamboyant & lively delivery has earned him critical applauses & 14 Sports Emmy Awards pro Outstanding Sports Event Analyst. John Madden’s unique style of announcing is interposed with varieties of interjections like “Doink!”, “Bang!”, “Whap!” & “Boom!” & his exploit of telestrator, a mechanism which allocates him to overlay his light- penned figures of several football plays above video footage. His utilization of this device assisted to popularize that technology, which now has become an affix of TV coverage of the entire sports. Additionally, he has also appeared in an array of television & radio commercials counting Tinactin, Miller Lite, Verizon Wireless, Sirius Satellite Radio, Rent-A-Center, Outback Steakhouse & Ace Hardware. In particular, the Miller beer adds paved John’s public image as a blundering but amiable personality.
John Madden is well known for having trepidation of flying. One of the highest earning sports personalities, John owns the total net worth of 200 million US dollar at present. He now, carries out a 6-to-9-minute on- air chat on San Franscisco’s KCBS radio with the news & sports anchors each weekday morning sharp at Pacific Time 8:15 am, with recorded repeats all through the day. There are as well podcasts available on iTunes & http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/tag/john-madden/. For further detail, visit John Maddenson biography available on manifolds of the internet sites or simply make a close glance on his wiki page.