loved traveling the country. he was that guy sitting with you as you twhached nfl football game he s broadcast in his famous way. lawrence: if you are in your house and you have children and did you go in their room, i guarantee you most definitely if they have a game console, madden is there. and it s because john madden almost became synonymous with football. he was football no one could narrate the game. no one could predict plays. no one could add context to the plays more than john madden. john madden said that football was his life. watch. football is my life. get rid. i say probably. but, it s complicated. you can t write the history of professional football without john madden.
you something that jim gray, long time nfl broadcaster had to say. jim gray in a fascinating quote that i thought put this into context said that john madden is the most famous figure connected dot nfl and i thought about that for a moment. and i thought about all the terry brad shaw s and roger staubachs, the tom bradies, i came back around to i think jim gray is right. if there is one name at the top of your mind when it comes to the nfl that name either because of broadcasting or coaching or to your point, lawrence, because of the video game is the nfl. it is the name of the nfl and tom brady who would perhaps be the only other name to rival that honor said the following on instagram. he said john called our first super bowl. he was always so good to me. rest in peace to a legend of our game my con dolan lenses and love to the madden family.
yelling and screaming at guys. what the hell are you trying to do? is he a coaching genius. lawrence: will, the moment that we got the news, all i could think about was that special on christmas day and, of course, none of us knew that he was on the rocks or anything like that. so to have this tribute to him on christmas day and get news, it was really sad to hear. will: yeah. it was i don t know the right word to use. but more than coincidental, perhaps fateful that the nfl had chosen to honor john madden just days, as you point out, days before the nfl lost john madden. commissioner of the nfl john goodell said nobody loved football more than coach, he was football. he was an incredible sounding board to me and others there will never be another john madden forever indebted to him for all he did to make football and the nfl what it is today. and then i want to share with
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through the television the magic of television on new year s eve. we hope you will join us on december 31st, the last day of 2021. as we ring in the new year we welcome you in to 2022 from nashville. it s an all-american new year s special with your fox & friends weekend team. so go come join us please on the fox news channel. kayleigh and lawrence though we start this morning with a bit of sad news. news broke last night that nfl legend and quite honestly american icon john madden had died at the age of 85. almost everyone watching, i m sure, is familiar with john madden, he was an nfl legend. won a super bowl with the oakland raiders the then oakland raiders he went on to become a legend in the realm of broadcasting. he was the voice of 1980s and 1990s. in the nfl, lawrence, i know you will agree with, this as a dallas cowboy fan my entire life, it felt like he narrated