John Madden Death
John passed away on December 28, 2021 at the age of 85 in Pleasanton, California, USA.
When did John Madden die?
December 28, 2021How old was John Madden when died?
85Where did John Madden die? What was the location of death?
Pleasanton, California, USA
John Madden Birthday and Date of Death
John Madden was born on April 10, 1936 and died on December 28, 2021. John was 85 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: April 10, 1936
Date of Death: December 28, 2021
Age at Death: 85
John Madden - Biography
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former American football player in the National Football League, a former Super Bowl-winning head coach with the Oakland Raiders in the American Football Conference of the NFL, and a former color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. He is also widely known for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden worked as a color analyst for all four major networks: CBS (1979–1993), Fox (1994–2001), ABC (2002–2005), and NBC (2006–2008).
Madden's lively and flamboyant delivery has won him critical acclaim and fourteen Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Event Analyst. His announcing style is punctuated with interjections such as "Boom!", "Whap!", "Bang!" and "Doink!"' and with his use of the telestrator, a device which allows him to superimpose his light-penned diagrams of football plays over video footage. Madden's use of the telestrator helped to popularize the technology, which has become a staple of television coverage of all sports.
After a two-year break, Madden returned to his morning on-air chat on San Francisco's KCBS AM radio in 2017. Previously the show was on every weekday with one show at 8:15 a.m. Pacific Time and often another at 9:15 a.m. Since his return, Madden airs on Mondays and Fridays only, at 9:15 a.m. Through the years, Madden often took on a fantasy persona, discussing how he ran the Boston Marathon the day before the event to avoid the crowds or even discussions about taking part in the Alaskan Iditarod Trails Sled Dog race. Madden has also aired sports commentaries in syndication on the Westwood One radio network in the United States.
Madden met Virginia Fields in a bar in Pismo Beach, California, and they married on December 26, 1959. They live in Pleasanton, California, and have two sons, Joseph and Michael. Joe played football at Brown University and Mike attended Harvard University where he started as receiver on the football team.
