From: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: TOP TEN MADDENISMS
Reply-To: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 06:53:59 GMT

In article <1293@pascal.einstein.eds.com>, you write:
>Just an casual observation from a casual armchair QB:
>
>I think John Madden is great! He takes some of the staleness out of the 
>otherwise very redundant commentary, and makes the game more entertaining. 
>
>Well, for the five or six other folks out there who like madden, here's 
>some of my favorite Madden-isms:

[...amusing stories not repeated...]

>Any other good stories out there???????

Along the same lines of the All-Madden team, I remember a few years ago
a Raiders lineman named Wiesnewski (sp?) was selected. Madden said something
like "Every team has to have a guy with a name like Wiesnewski, so you
can yell 'hey, Wiesnewski, go out there and hit a few people'".

Another one I remember is when he was reviewing a Barry Sanders run; he
said "now watch this little perriette here; did you see that little
perriette?". The word "perriette" was sort of a cross between "Perrier"
and "piroutte" (the latter of which he was *really* trying to say).

Oh, and then the segment on the All-Madden show a few years ago with
Jerry Rice and M.C. Hammer. Hammer was teaching Jerry a new dance step
to do in the end zone. Hammer said that next he was going to teach Madden
how to do it. So Madden got the clicker out and replayed the segment.
The dance step had Hammer keeping his right foot planted the whole time,
but the rest of his body was all over the place. But his right foot never
moved. So Madden's commentary was "OK, you see the right foot; I've got
that part down. That part I can do. I don't have any problem with that.
This other stuff, forget about it. But I can do the right foot".

Geez, now you've got me on a roll. A few weeks ago there was a segment
during the 49ers game that showed Joe Montana in one of his first
throwing sessions. Apparently the receiver he was throwing to took a
break, but Montana wasn't tired yet. So Madden came on the field to
play wide receiver. They showed a clip of Madden going downfield and
catching a pass, then doing a few fakes here and there, and then
rumbling into the end zone. And on the replay he says "Now, remember,
this is in super slow-motion, that's why it looks like I'm running
so slow...".

How anyone can call him an "idiot", I don't know. Whether you like his
broadcasting style or not (and I think the fact that CBS has him at #1
indicates that most people do like him), he is certainly a very
intelligent man when it comes to football. Certainly more intelligent
about football than the ones who are calling him an idiot.

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