Football giant John Madden, arguably the most popular man in the history of the country’s biggest sport, has died at 85. He won a Super Bowl as an NFL coach at a young age, then retired to become the greatest TV analyst in the history of the NFL. He put his name on the dominant football video game.
Here’s a random anecdote from a commenter about how Madden spread joy:
John Madden did a Monday night football game in Bmore 20 some odd years ago. He liked the crab soup at the restaurant I worked at. So we stayed open late just for him.
All he ordered was the soup, left me a $100 tip and signed autographs for the guys in the kitchen and me. RIP
