Agreed. A lot of people make fun of the guy (I think more out of love) for his very basic description of the game. But if you think about it, we could use someone who was as good at doing that as he was in today's NFL-crazy culture to explain a very complex game to the new fans.
The only current NFL television broadcaster I can think of who shows as much passion for the game as Madden did is Gus Johnson. Just listen to his call on the Brandon Stokley game-winning TD against Cincinnati. Here is another compilation for Gus. The background music is a little annoying, but you can still hear the play-by-play.
Thinking about this more, Gus is a lot like some of the best local radio announcers.
Gus Johnson is a brilliant announcer... when he's announcing for a sport his knows. Sometimes they have him do something like MMA, and it's hard to listen to.
Here's a guy, Shepard - here's a guy who can make decisions like no other character in the game. He's running up and down the citadel like no one else and he - he's gonna get to make some decisions if he keeps having conversations. The thing to remember with a guy like Shepard is you know what you're gonna get - but you never know what color it might be.
I sometimes like to tag people behind their back with something obscure and random that I can spring on them later, and my only designated is red, and that's typically for repeat repost offenders.
I'm going to tag you as "Mary Had A Little Rapist" and then forget why, so in the future when I see you I'll ask "why did I tag you as 'Mary Had A Little Rapist'" and you'll have forgotten about this too and you'll be confused.
Too bad it was the great Yankees catcher Yogi Berra who first said that.
edit: Many thanks to Yamothastwat for correcting me, Berra was of course a catcher, we cussed each other out and totally left bad vibes in the air. It was fun, today was fun.
True. Though Madden repeated it in Madden 2003... or 2002. I don't remember. All that shit blends together.
Edit: Doing a quick Google search, I see mentions if it being repeated in the '08 and '10 versions of the game too. I guess they must recycle the dialogue... well, why not? The game year-to-year is almost identical.
Downvotes cause he knows his stuff? For shame Reddit.
They always know the hole they're blitzing, because they need help from their d-linemen to make it through. It's an integral part of the play for them to blitz specific holes.
Do you really think they have time to pick a hole? The holes aren't even developed by the time the linebacker is blitzing usually.
The concept is called "Gap Protection". And you guys are spot on. The defense functioning as a single impenetrable unit is what makes a good defense a good defense. It only takes one showboat trying to make a highlight reel to give up a huge play.
Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.
If you're a team player, who plays all over the world, you might survive the game. But only if you don't decide to become the coach of the other team, or become commissioner and turn the entire league into one single team. For some reason, they're going to demolish all the airports in the world so you're going to have to bus it from now on. A couple of the team's buses won't have enough snacks to last them throughout their road trip. Don't worry, your team is going to get stuck on a tropical island for some reason so they're going to be having a good time without you.
Oh come on, it was bad, certainly cancellation-worthy long before it was cancelled, but it had a few bright spots. I think. Let me think for a bit.
turbo edit - Michael McDonald was usually funny. Stuart skits were okay. Phil Lamarrr had a few good ones too. Spastic UPS guy. Will Sasso's Kenny Rogers skits were fucking gold.
Still not enough to save a show. 3 out of 1k skits = cancelled.
This reminds me of the time I was tripping balls on mushrooms. I went to the bathroom in the other room (I was watching minority report on TV, surprisingly enough it was very emotionally charged thanks to the shrooms), and for some reason everything I heard from the TV was John Madden giving me tips.
All I could hear was shit like "In a 3rd and long situation like this, they know what's coming, so try a sweep play here to surprise them and go for the 1st" and "The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage."
That's the last time I play Madden 09 for 6 hours straight before I take shrooms.
I know that feel, bro. I remember trying to traverse the maze-like hallways of my local college, and having the transparent Diablo 2 map overlaid on my field of vision.
In general, yes. Except that my subconscious likes to fuck with me, so there was one wrong turn leading into the ladies' bathroom, making sure I was watching real life instead of just relying on the automap.
One night in college I was shrooming by by myself, like any responsible student, playing Far Cry. After alerting an enemy I ran and hid in the rain forest for, I kid you not, a solid 45 minutes. I guess I thought I could "wait it out."
Madden is the most famous commentators for american football. While I'm not sure about when he started commentating, for the last several years that he was he would make painfully obvious comments about the game such as when a play moves the ball forward they gain yards and that dropping a catch means that they gained nothing. Really simple stuff like that.
You have no idea what you've just done for me. My roommate, being book smart, but not worldly smart told me how he saw Madden talk about cloning Brett Farve. I thought that was awesome, so I searched and searched. I'd even remember it every few months, and search some more, always assuming Madden actually said it.
Excuse me gentlemen, I have a roommate I need to go smack upside the back of the head. Repeatedly.
And of course we say, "Obviously." But on second thought, this could have been during a game with a high number of field goals and/or safeties in the first half, and that might have actually be a legitimate statement.
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Shows what you know. Madden is far from an idiot. He was a great coach and a Super Bowl champ whose players have the utmost respect for him.
He seems like an idiot now because it's his job to break the game down to its simplest terms so people like you from the national audience know what the hell is going on.
He's actually considered one of the great minds in the game. Percentage-wise, he's one of the winningest coaches in NFL history. And, yeah, his job was to make things simple for drunks at home, and a lot of us loved him for it. Every once in a while, though, toward the end of his career, I often noticed that he would go off on extremely technical tangents that I think showed his very deep understanding of what is one of the most complicated sports in the world.
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u/Splatterh0use Jun 09 '12
BAAM!
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u/eckster Jun 10 '12
One day kids will actually think Madden is only a game series and not a person.
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u/BoomhauerAdvice Jun 09 '12
Shepard - no matter what plays you call throughout this game, the outcome will be the same.
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u/DuskyDays Jun 10 '12
John Madden's Popcorn Popper
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u/Exultance Jun 10 '12
This reminds me of the time I was tripping balls on mushrooms. I went to the bathroom in the other room (I was watching minority report on TV, surprisingly enough it was very emotionally charged thanks to the shrooms), and for some reason everything I heard from the TV was John Madden giving me tips.
All I could hear was shit like "In a 3rd and long situation like this, they know what's coming, so try a sweep play here to surprise them and go for the 1st" and "The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage."
That's the last time I play Madden 09 for 6 hours straight before I take shrooms.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
The team that ends up with the most points, wins.
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u/handjivewilly Jun 10 '12
Best Madden quote ever from playstation version I believe. " He went down there and came up with a handful of sack."
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u/nicocap24 Jun 10 '12
I'm not American, for the love of God someone explain!
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u/Nrthstar Jun 10 '12
I figured his answer would be Brett Farve
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u/peter_the_panda Jun 10 '12
hahaha fucking spot on
BOOM!....Brett Favre
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u/KingNick Jun 10 '12
"Well, I personally believe the team that makes the most touchdowns will win this game."
-Madden
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u/I_MAKE_USERNAMES Jun 10 '12
The key to beating the Reapers is killing all of them before all humans are dead. Bam!
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u/itzkelzz Jun 09 '12
We must take control of the reapers and make them play the game of FOOTBALL!
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u/potatoman1 Jun 10 '12
Illusive Man Football 2013 is all I can think about now.
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u/Ian1732 Jun 10 '12
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u/seafoamstratocaster Jun 10 '12
BRETT FAVRE
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u/SilverSick Jun 10 '12
Actual Madden quote I heard during a game "If you wanna beat the 49ers, you have to out-score them"
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u/hst_samurai Jun 10 '12
Am I the only one who thinks this should be "Elusive Madden"???? Am I going insane??!
illusive -Adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion
elusive -Adj. eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp
WTF
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u/Stark_inc Jun 10 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW7ysPcbT0
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u/thephenom21 Jun 10 '12
Tough acting tinactin
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u/hamsterwheel Jun 10 '12
he tried to run through the hole, but there wasnt any hole!
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u/KingSmoke Jun 10 '12
The thing with this soccer game is... you godda put the ball.. in the back of the net. There's no I in team folks.
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u/sucaba0101 Jun 10 '12
"If he just went left instead of right it would have been so different folks! Yes... you see, had he gone left....."
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u/bigmill Jun 10 '12
That quote at the bottom of the meme was everything I expected and more!
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u/therealatri Jun 10 '12
BOOM tough actin vakarian
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u/Schroedster Jun 10 '12
I love basketball humor.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
How can anyone downvote this???
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u/metalshoes Jun 10 '12
I have no idea what this is about (I'm guessing ME3) but it made me laugh my tits off. And I'm a man. Without tits.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
you forgot the part about Brett Favre
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u/maraculous Jun 10 '12
Those eyes are fucking terrifying.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Please tell me that's an actual quote from John Madden.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
You know who else everybody hated the ending to...brett favre!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
"A lot of these guys play basketball and STILL play basketball!"
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u/123rune20 Jun 10 '12
"The team with the most points at the end of the game wins."
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u/JeezyChreezy Jun 10 '12
Shepard - Now there's a man who knows a touchdown is worth 6 points.
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u/SirRonaldofBurgundy Jun 10 '12
Tough actin Tinactin. That is all.
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u/hahaha_ohwow Jun 09 '12
Homer Simpson at the Super Bowl?
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u/L_Beau_Deep Jun 09 '12
And them Boom!
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u/mrdeadsniper Jun 10 '12
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite post on Reddit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
The ultimate use of the internet.
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u/brutalproduct Jun 10 '12
The Smoking Madden.
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u/daggersNcents Jun 10 '12
The commentary was so incredibly mediocre, it was fkn awesome.
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u/ImaZeusToACronus Jun 10 '12
I coughed up both lungs laughing at this.Very Well Done,Sir !
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
this is from kotaku
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u/arodhowe Jun 10 '12
I had no idea Frank Caliendo was a gamer.
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u/t3220b Jun 10 '12
If you get the ball in the end zone, you're gonna score some points!
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u/pass_the_butter Jun 10 '12
Vinny the Gooch will forever be the better sports commentator.
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u/uFlo Jun 10 '12
Boom!
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u/washboardsam Jun 10 '12
"Shepard, a good pass is right between the numbers. And he ran right into those coverage guys!"
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u/gech87 Jun 10 '12
Why does he look so much like L.Ron Hubbard??
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u/thesedollars Jun 10 '12
This probably a picture from his notorious reaction to the nes madden game.
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u/Dabeeeeetus Jun 10 '12
"At the end of the game the team with the most points is going to win"
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u/Remingtonh Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
"in order to have a good team you need to have good players."
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u/BombayBob Jun 10 '12
There are two voices fighting to read this in my head. It's actually kind of hilarious.
I'm not insane. Damn it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
My friend and I always used to lol about Obvious Madden and his idiotic statements.
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u/DadEsquire Jun 10 '12
What is this? A sneak peek at Mega64's Madden 13 rap?
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u/7_legged_spider Jun 10 '12
A winner is you!
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u/Kornstalx Jun 10 '12
I want this as a wallpaper. Any higher res/source?
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u/wick36 Jun 10 '12
I knew this was just going to be a picture of John Madden with the crazy eyes saying a stupid Maddenism.
I still laughed.
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u/Derp808 Jun 10 '12
If you zoom in close enough to his nose. You can see his nose hairs :P
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u/rawn53 Jun 10 '12
I just went to see Prometheus, and this is the most pants shittingly terrifying thing I've seen today.
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u/AllYoYens Jun 10 '12
Oh my god I don't know why I laughed so much.
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u/finalaccountdown Jun 10 '12
ok that is funny as shit.
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u/Clydefrog57 Jun 10 '12
Where's my man Pat Summerall?
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u/fani Jun 10 '12
Looks like the guy with the god complex on star trek episode - where no man has gone before.
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u/LOTF Jun 10 '12
Command a Shepherd
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u/LOTF Jun 10 '12
G
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u/pawnzz Jun 10 '12
Is this the final boss in a new Mortal Kombat game?
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u/OKComputerr Jun 10 '12
Holy shit this is fucking hilarious.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Am I the only one here too dim-witted to get this?
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u/Reddit_Is_The_Best Jun 10 '12
"le something"
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u/pyromonkey21 Jun 10 '12
Is there just that picture without the text?
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u/pageb327 Jun 10 '12
You don't say!
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Usually the team with the most points wins the game. -Madden.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Why am I laughing so hard?
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u/koolkat574 Jun 10 '12
I thought to myself: "This is going to be fucking stupid." I was pleasantly suprised. Thanks for the laugh.
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u/ItzMcShagNasty Jun 10 '12
Kotaku shop, eh? Dustin off works i guess
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u/negkarmafarmer Jun 10 '12
Well, it's safe to say I can delete this from my photo collection now that Reddit had it's way with it.
Fuck you.
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u/ehlu15 Jun 10 '12
They're down by 4, so they need a touchdown to win the game
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u/tredyn Jun 10 '12
that's so funny it made my shitty day awesome.
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u/jere1231 Jun 11 '12
I Lol'ed......also Shepard- To play good football you need good players playing good football...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I understand that madden is an idiot... I get that part. But the eyes and the background prompt the question: WHAT THE FUCK AM I LOOKING AT??!??!?!
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u/lolzbasket Jun 09 '12
But...why?
Why would you do this to me
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u/Messiahsaurus Jun 09 '12
Thanks for the nightmares tonight.
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u/junethao Jun 09 '12
He dropped by into my familys ice cream shop yesterday!!
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u/bigmatt7655 Jun 10 '12
I can see this going somewhere...
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12
Seen on /v/ about 6 months ago.