{"id":11866,"date":"2021-12-29T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:19:49","slug":"madden-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/29\/madden-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/32953839\/nfl-hall-fame-coach-broadcasting-icon-john-madden-dies-85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from ESPN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NFL Hall of Fame coach, broadcasting icon John Madden dies at 85<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/image-5-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11867\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>Al Messerschmidt\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach-turned-broadcaster whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday morning, the NFL said. He was 85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The league said he died unexpectedly and did not detail a cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madden gained fame in a decadelong stint as the coach of the renegade Oakland Raiders, making it to seven AFC title games and winning the Super Bowl following the 1976 season. He compiled a 103-32-7 regular-season record, and his .759 winning percentage is the best among NFL coaches with more than 100 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Few individuals meant as much to the growth and popularity of professional football as Coach Madden, whose impact on the game both on and off the field was immeasurable,&#8221; the Raiders said in a statement, hours before\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raiders\/status\/1476022148934168577?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">team owner Mark Davis lit the Al Davis Torch<\/a>\u00a0in honor of Madden, the first person to ever light the torch on Oct. 16, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/32953839\/nfl-hall-fame-coach-broadcasting-icon-john-madden-dies-85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at ESPN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from ESPN NFL Hall of Fame coach, broadcasting icon John Madden dies at 85 John Madden, the Hall of Fame coach-turned-broadcaster whose exuberant calls combined with simple explanations provided a weekly soundtrack to NFL games for three decades, died Tuesday morning, the NFL said. He was 85. The league said he died unexpectedly and did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}