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Memories of the first Vikings football game

...Bears 37-13, thanks to the heroics of a then-second string, rookie quarterback, Fran Tarkenton. This was when John Madden was just a coach and not a playstation millionaire, when helmet face masks were thin, single bars across the face...

http://brainerddispatch.com/blog-post/mike-orourke/2011-09-14/memories-first-vik
CRIME

VANDALISM -- John Madden, 2,000 block of Woodridge Lane, Wednesday reported damage to a window from a BB gun. THEFT -- Eric Carder, 700 block of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082704/fyi_0827040027.shtml
FYI
Heck, Madden and Michaels hit it off

John Madden gave viewers an early "boom!" and plenty of "hecks" in his "Monday Night Football" debut -- and nary a highfalutin' reference...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/080602/nsp_0806020010.shtml
Sports
National sports briefs

Monday Night Football and John Madden were paired in a blockbuster deal announced Thursday that reshapes the football broadcasting landscape and ends ABC's failed...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/030102/nsp_0301020007.shtml
Sports
NFL coaches walk balance beam

Any time an NFL coach is fired, Fox football analyst John Madden points out that only two head coaches in NFL history have operated in a perfect situation, one with no outside interference...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/120900/nsp_1209000015.shtml
Sports
This was Brainerd

20 years ago (1988) Jack Ruttger of Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge, John Madden of Madden's, Dave Gravdahl of Breezy Point Resort and Mark Ronnei, Grand View Lodge are joining forces to try to entice tourists...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082708/new_20080827062.shtml
News
Madden feels like he's been kicked in the stomach

Despite two decades of appearing on television and radio, John Madden still considers himself a coach and teacher, not a broadcaster. "I'm a football guy that does television," Madden said Wednesday...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/012402/nsp_0124020039.shtml
Sports
NFL is back but telecasts will be subdued

No one in sports has a better feel for Americans just now than John Madden. The lead NFL analyst for Fox Sports was in his midtown Manhattan apartment, preparing to work the Green Bay Packers at New York...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/092201/nsp_0922010050.shtml
Sports
End of an era in NFL broadcasting

One awfully good football team will be broken up after Sunday's Super Bowl, when Pat Summerall and John Madden part company, ending 21 years of broadcasting NFL games together. Summerall's low-key play-by-play provided the perfect...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/020202/nsp_0202020119.shtml
Sports
Madden gives a spirited defense of Summerall

...65-yard spiral tops out at 55 yards or less. It's true about broadcasting too. For 19 years, Pat Summerall and John Madden have reigned as sports broadcasting's top announcer pair, but now come the whispers that perhaps Summerall has lost...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/012200/nsp_0122000026.shtml
Sports

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