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Article: 'TIS MADDEN-INC...(John Madden, football analyst)(Brief Article)
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- Coach and Athletic Director
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- January 1, 2001
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JOHN MADDEN IS Jundeniably the greatest TV football analyst on Planet Earth and he has the loving cups and paychecks to prove it.
We have known him since he was an assistant line coach with the Oakland Raiders, and he remains pretty much the same sort of guy: sharp, amusing, a people person, and extremely politic. He never rushes in where angels fear to tread, and so manages to avoid controversy.
That is why he surprised us by taking a position on the controversy involving his major competition -- Monday Night Football. By now, it is generally conceded that MNF laid an egg in adding a third man to the booth -- a non-football man whose job it is to boost ...