“Football coach, Sports-caster”. Achieve powerful results changing attitudes, Irish humorist and change motivator.
Program Titles
- Stress Down With Humor
- Look For A Better Way
- Change Your Expectations
- Outstanding Customer Service
- The S.E.R.V.I.C.E.PRINCIPLES
John Madden was in the management of multiple hotels and restaurants in Europe and in the United States, and advising businesses on productivity improvement, and management development.
John has presented lectures and seminars in over a hundred cities on Customer Service, Coaching Skills for Managers, Time and Stress management, and Interpersonal Skills. His clients include banks, hospitality, health care, insurance, retail, and manufacturing. His style is upbeat, motivational, humorous, and educational.
US “football coach, sportscaster”. “He coached the Oakland Raiders, 1969-79; has won 6 Emmys as analyst on CBS telecasts of NFL games.” John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936 in Austin, Minnesota) is a former American football coach for the Oakland Raiders who later became a TV football announcer, author and ad pitchman for various products and retail stores.
Madden grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and played college football at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. He was later drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, but suffered a knee injury in training camp and never played in the NFL.
Madden became an assistant football coach for the Oakland Raiders in 1967. As the Raiders’ head coach from 1969-1979, he won a Super Bowl in the 1976-1977 season. He guided the Raiders to 103 victories and only 32 losses in ten seasons. His overall record, including playoff games, is second in winning percentage only to the late Green Bay Packers coaching legend, Vince Lombardi.
Madden is famous for the use of Turducken references during traditional Thanksgiving Day games. He traditionally eats the combination on-air, to the amusement of much of the audience.
Of his coaching career, Madden is quoted as saying, “The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.”
Madden has worked as a television football announcer for three of the four American broadcast television networks that have or have had NFL broadcasts. For more than 20 years he worked alongside Pat Summerall, first at CBS, and then at the Fox Network. The pair’s last game was Super Bowl XXXVI, after which Madden became co-host of ABC’s Monday Night Football in the autumn of 2002 with longtime play-by-play announcer Al Michaels. Madden’s lively and insightful football commentary has won him critical acclaim and fourteen Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Event Analyst. Madden’s announcing style is punctuated with interjections like “Boom!” and his use of the ‘tele-strator’, a device which allows Madden to draw a diagram of the play over top of the footage. Madden’s use of the tele-strator helped to popularize the technology, which has become a staple of television coverage of all sports.
In recent years he has appeared in a variety of radio and television commercials including Ace Hardware, Outback Steakhouse, Rent-a-Center, Miller Lite, Sirius Satellite Radio and Tinactin. In particular, the Miller beer advertisements cemented Madden’s image in the public eye as a bumbling but loveable personality. He had a brief movie role playing himself in the 1994 youth football film Little Giants.
Madden is the author/co-author of several football-related books.
In addition to his real-world exploits, John Madden lends his voice, personality and name to the Madden NFL series of football video games published by Electronic Arts. Madden NFL is created at Electronic Arts Tiburon Studios in Orlando, Florida and consistently is one of the top selling games in North America every year.
Madden has aired sports commentaries in syndication and has also recorded radio and television public service announcements for a number of causes, including the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation of San Francisco (based on the health experiences of his wife, Virginia Madden).
Madden is also noted for his fear of flying. He travels around the country in a luxurious customized bus, which he has dubbed the Madden’s Cruiser.
Books by John Madden
- One Knee Equals Two Feet and Everything Else You Need to Know About Football
- The First Book of Football
- All Madden: Hey, I’m Talking Pro Football!
- John Madden’s Ultimate Tailgating
- Hey, Wait a Minute! I Wrote a Book!
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