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John Madden Retires from Announcing
16-Apr-2009
Written by: Sayed Islam
Former National Football League coach has decided to call it quits.
Former National Football League coach, John Madden, has decided to call it quits. According to the New York Times, contributor Richard Sandomir reports, “John Madden retired on Wednesday from calling football games, leaving a weekly discipline that he revolutionized with a coach’s eye, cartoonish sound effects and a taste for Thanksgiving turducken.”
One of John Madden’s former announcing partners, Pat Summerall, worked with Mr. Madden at CBS and Fox. On ABC, Madden worked with play by play commentator Al Michaels on Monday Night Football. In 2006, both Madden and Michaels went to work for NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which featured flex scheduling. The most probable replacement for Madden is Cris Collinsworth, but NBC has not confirmed or denied a substitute.
Collinsworth has previous experience as a football color commentator on Fox, NFL Network, and occasionally NBC. As of now, Collinsworth is an analyst for NBC and color commentator for the NFL Network.
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