My Friend John Madden Retires
By Rick Anderson in Sports
Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 10:25AM
John Madden and I went to the same college, at different times, and played football there, on different teams. I also once covered the Oakland Raiders, and he wasn't the coach. Today, amazingly, he retired from NBC, which I watch! (For the record, I played in 1960 for the Grays Harbor College Chokers - it refers to a choker chain used by loggers, not what we became in the late stages of many a game - and Madden played in 1956). In Aberdeen, Madden swept up the card room at the Mint Café where, he proudly recalls, he learned his football poker skills. I worked in the pulp mill, where I learned my pulp skills. The coincidences never stop.
2 comment(s)
Piper Scott says:
Pulp mill, eh? In Cosmopolis? I always figured your writing demonstrated a yourthful excessive inhalation of sulfite cooking liquor...You've now confirmed it.
Posted On: Sunday, Apr. 19 2009 @ 7:33AM
Nomad says:
I'll miss hearing his boisterous voice every Superbowl *little tear*
Posted On: Wednesday, Apr. 22 2009 @ 9:53PM