Remember when he said the best football team is when you have 5 black men at OL and a white QB ?
RIP John Madden
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When John Madden coached the raiders, they were the dirtiest team in the league. Madden coached them that way. You guys that praise him either aren't old enough to know that or you have forgotten. He was a fun announcer but he was a dirty, nasty coach.THE YEAR OF THE FLIP!
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Originally posted by Maniaque 6 View PostRemember when he said the best football team is when you have 5 black men at OL and a white QB ?
Perhaps in context it wouldn't sound crass.
Everyone liked him....he wasn't a saint.
He represented the old non blow dried hair era of the league: being spontaneous, interesting and sometimes crude with off the cuff remarks;
although, I can't really remember anything controversial or crude about him...which is both good and bad.
Most of these guys now a days just provide noise.
They flee controversy like the plague.
Could you imagine Madden trying to cover for the league by attributing Parham's tremors as a reaction to the cold?
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Originally posted by chargeroo View PostWhen John Madden coached the raiders, they were the dirtiest team in the league. Madden coached them that way. You guys that praise him either aren't old enough to know that or you have forgotten. He was a fun announcer but he was a dirty, nasty coach.
I wonder if Madden was affected by the Stingley paralysis....he got out of coaching early.
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Originally posted by powderblueboy View Post
A certain part of me wouldn't mind if Staley was a dirty, nasty coach.
I wonder if Madden was affected by the Stingley paralysis....he got out of coaching early.
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Originally posted by chargeroo View PostWhen John Madden coached the raiders, they were the dirtiest team in the league. Madden coached them that way. You guys that praise him either aren't old enough to know that or you have forgotten. He was a fun announcer but he was a dirty, nasty coach.
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Originally posted by powderblueboy View Post
A certain part of me wouldn't mind if Staley was a dirty, nasty coach.
I wonder if Madden was affected by the Stingley paralysis....he got out of coaching early.
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Originally posted by Bolt-O View Post
I can't disagree. Football in the 60's and 70's was brutal, and the Raiders were true to their 'branding'. Other teams were doing the same crap, not just as blatant as the Raiders. But of course, we know that the real coach of the Raiders then was Al Davis.
Clark Hunt had a 16mm AFL game film that he kept hidden, that he showed to no one. It was the Boston Patriots and another team, in Boston. In the 4th quarter, a guy came onto the field in a trench coat and lined up opposite a WR in press coverage, so, 12 men on the field. The referees missed it and the ball was snapped, and the guy in the trench coat, defended the pass and ran back into the crowd.
The play stood.
Had that film gotten out, the two leagues would never have merged when they did.
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Originally posted by ghost View Post
This is an AFL story. I heard Steve Sabol tell it.
Clark Hunt had a 16mm AFL game film that he kept hidden, that he showed to no one. It was the Boston Patriots and another team, in Boston. In the 4th quarter, a guy came onto the field in a trench coat and lined up opposite a WR in press coverage, so, 12 men on the field. The referees missed it and the ball was snapped, and the guy in the trench coat, defended the pass and ran back into the crowd.
The play stood.
Had that film gotten out, the two leagues would never have merged when they did.
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