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I'm here for the tough actin' tinactin.
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John Madden commercials were a huge part of my childhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ11QN1jAGE
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General Dog posted:I wonder if John Madden ever picked up a controller or keyboard and personally played Madden Netflix series High Score shows John Madden playing the game in episode 4, in a video He's actually playing the game and comments on it
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b mad at me posted:Netflix series High Score shows John Madden playing the game in episode 4, in a video Later in life Madden would Ask Madden and Madden would tell Madden what Madden would do and Madden would follow Madden's advice to a maddening degree.
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John Madden personally coded the Madden Ultimate Team booster pack algorithm.
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extremely adorable banner ad, whoever bought that for this thread.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:extremely adorable banner ad, whoever bought that for this thread. Agreed it is great. If you haven't seen it: ![]()
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John Madden.
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holla holla get dolla
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Mr. Nice! posted:Agreed it is great. If you haven't seen it: This is p. great. I thank Madden for helping me semi-intelligent conversations about football since the early 90s. It's actually fairly important for someone growing up in the South to not sound like a complete moron when people start talking about football and I probably wouldn't have learned a drat thing before college without Madden football.
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tadashi posted:This is p. great. I'm with you on that. I grew up watching football with my family and while I learned the basic rules and what not, it wasn't until John Madden came along that taught me actual strategy and blocking schemes and more advanced tactics of the game, and I thank him for that.
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b mad at me posted:Netflix series High Score shows John Madden playing the game in episode 4, in a video he was very involved in the development of early madden games. he refused to put his name on a football game that wasn't "real" football, with 11 players, accurate rules, the ability to call realistic plays, and so on.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:he was very involved in the development of early madden games. he refused to put his name on a football game that wasn't "real" football, with 11 players, accurate rules, the ability to call realistic plays, and so on. Yeah, he could play the early PC ones, and even the Genesis era. Then the PlayStation / N64 era came around and he stopped, because the controls had become too complicated. This is a man who had to be helped by Troy Aikman, of all people, to get to understand how to use his cell phone and send text messages.
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Vertical Lime posted:the ringer reminded me about this article I can't stress enough how cool this article is if you're at all interested in the business side of sports media. Also still RIP to a legend among legends.
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For no reason at all, I remembered his Outback bloomin onion commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li3ZDYWTzz0
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Timby posted:Yeah, he could play the early PC ones, and even the Genesis era. Then the PlayStation / N64 era came around and he stopped, because the controls had become too complicated. Yea, but he could still draw circles around bucket(head)s like Aikman
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Timby posted:Yeah, he could play the early PC ones, and even the Genesis era. Then the PlayStation / N64 era came around and he stopped, because the controls had become too complicated. Then the XBox 360/PS3 era came around and the controls became too complicated for me.
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Big Ol Marsh Pussy posted:John Madden.
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Tom Brady didn’t want to play football in a world without John Madden. Respect.
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active players who were playing when john madden called his final game: Mr. Nice! adrian peterson aaron rodgers desean jackson matt ryan clark harris other longsnappers ,kicker o-line Sam Koch Andy Lee Cavauro fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 29, 2022 |
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Cavauro posted:active players who were playing when john madden called his final game: Larry is retired. I don't know that he ever formally "retired," but he hasn't played since 2020 and told the Mannings he was retired when he was on MNF a few weeks ago.
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Vertical Lime posted:the ringer reminded me about this article Thanks for posting and boosting this article. It was a really good read. Also I never thought about how the NFC was more valuable in terms of built-in broadcast viewers--it definitely had the bigger metros.
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Hed posted:Thanks for posting and boosting this article. It was a really good read. i always loved how there was a big affiliate shuffle after fox got football, even in markets where fox didn't change stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%E2%80%931996_United_States_broadcast_television_realignment
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Mr. Nice! posted:Larry is retired. I don't know that he ever formally "retired," but he hasn't played since 2020 and told the Mannings he was retired when he was on MNF a few weeks ago. direspecting the list....
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Vertical Lime posted:i always loved how there was a big affiliate shuffle after fox got football, even in markets where fox didn't change stations The article reminds me of how little MLB is on regular TV. During the season you can watch an NFL game three days a week and you have a pretty shot at watching your team. MLB? If was ever a game was on a regular network I don't remember seeing it.
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Darth Brooks posted:The article reminds me of how little MLB is on regular TV. During the season you can watch an NFL game three days a week and you have a pretty shot at watching your team. MLB? If was ever a game was on a regular network I don't remember seeing it. Pretty much everything except the Fox national baseball games is now locked to the teams' own individual sports networks. Those dominoes started falling when the Yankees started the YES Network literally 20 years ago. Hell, even most of the playoffs are locked to cable, with a few exceptions that wind up on Fox or ABC and the World Series being on Fox. It amazes me how incredibly adept MLB is at complaining that they aren't getting enough traction in the average sports consumer's mind, and then they do poo poo like going all-in on the RSNs. It's the equivalent of pounding a nail into your foot with a hammer and screaming for all to see that you're being assaulted.
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Vertical Lime posted:i always loved how there was a big affiliate shuffle after fox got football, even in markets where fox didn't change stations This is something that deeply fascinates me, and I'm gonna post some words on it later
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Timby posted:Pretty much everything except the Fox national baseball games is now locked to the teams' own individual sports networks. Those dominoes started falling when the Yankees started the YES Network literally 20 years ago. Hell, even most of the playoffs are locked to cable, with a few exceptions that wind up on Fox or ABC and the World Series being on Fox. This too
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Timby posted:Pretty much everything except the Fox national baseball games is now locked to the teams' own individual sports networks. Those dominoes started falling when the Yankees started the YES Network literally 20 years ago. Hell, even most of the playoffs are locked to cable, with a few exceptions that wind up on Fox or ABC and the World Series being on Fox. Isn’t this true of all other sports besides football? Basketball and hockey are usually relegated to the local RSNs with a few national games a week.
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