John Madden announced his retirement today, ending a legendary 30-year broadcasting career (following a highly successful coaching career and a concurrently-running video game being named after him career). I;ll personally remember Madden as the guy who always pissed me off with his inane comments during the Packers/Cowboys games that were contractually obligated to air on Fox every other Sunday from 1995-1998, but then who defied odds and gradually made me respect him as a rejuvenated booth personality on Monday Night Football and most recently on NBC;s Sunday Night broadcasts (I finally came to realize that I actually liked John Madden, what I didn;t like was John Madden broadcasting a game with Brett Favre in it).I;ll also remember John Madden as the source of one of the first viral videos I ever posted during my early days at BWE - I happened to witness this live, rewound my DVR, recorded it to a VHS tape, and brought the tape into my office and uploaded it, so that I could bring A
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Posted: 4/29/2009
