to have on a lounge next to me with a beer watching the game. you can t teach that, right? you have got it 100%. and what was interesting was he absolutely was a quintessential every man, but at the same time utterly unique. nerve anybody else like him before and i guarantee you since. bill belichick put it well when he said, from a mile away he d never be confused with anyone else. you know, sometimes when people are on the air, i am sure it happened to you, people say are you who i think you are? or they confuse you to someone else who does the same thing. nobody ever confused john madden with anybody else. he was john madden, the one and only. you re right. some people try. they think that personality is measured in decibel levels and try to have a shtick, whereas a guy like john madden or someone hike harry carey, their on air persona was a slight amplification of who they were and that s why it rang true to