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Madden joins NBC for Sunday night football
25-year broadcaster, former championcoach was doing 'Monday Night' on ABC
NBCSPORTS.com
Updated: 11:01 a.m. ET June 15, 2005
Former NFL champion coach and longtime broadcaster John Madden will join NBC Sports as the game analyst for the inaugural 2006 season of "NBC's Sunday Night Football," NBC Sports announced Wednesday.
Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics, will make the official announcement later Wednesday about Madden, who has won 14 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Analyst/Personality. He has been an NFL analyst for 25 years, since retiring as coach of the Oakland Raiders.
In 2009, Madden will call his 11th Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., on NBC.
Madden coached the Raiders to an overall record of 103-32-7, including seven AFC Western Division titles and a victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI. His .750 winning percentage is the best of any head coach in NFL history.
He was a linebacker coach to begin his NFL coaching career with Oakland in 1967, and became head coach in 1969 at age 33, the youngest head coach in the old American Football League. Madden retired in 1979 and started his broadcasting career at CBS in 1980. Madden also was the lead NFL analyst for FOX from 1994-2002.
Before coaching in Oakland, Madden was the defensive coordinator at San Diego State from 1964-66 where the Aztecs were ranked first among small colleges with a 26-4 record. From 1960-64 Madden coached at Hancock Junior College in Santa Maria, Calif.
"NBC's Sunday Night Football" is the NFL's primetime network television package. The six-year deal, which includes innovative flexible scheduling, begins with the 2006 season, continues through 2011 and includes Super Bowls in 2009 and 2012 and Pro Bowls in the same years.
For each of the six seasons, NBC will kick off the regular season with a Thursday night primetime game. The first regular season game of the new agreement, NBC's "NFL Kickoff 2006," launches the NFL regular season on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006 in primetime.
The agreement calls for 16 regular-season Sunday night games, each season's "NFL Kickoff" Thursday night primetime game, two postseason Wild Card games and three preseason games in primetime. NBC also will broadcast Super Bowl XLIII in 2009 in Tampa, Fla. and XLVI in 2012, and Pro Bowls in the same years.
Under the deal, the NFL provides flexible game scheduling over the final seven weeks of the regular season. The flexible game selection, offered for the first time by the NFL, ensures marquee matchups over the final seven weeks of the season when many teams' playoff chances are at stake.
25-year broadcaster, former championcoach was doing 'Monday Night' on ABC
NBCSPORTS.com
Updated: 11:01 a.m. ET June 15, 2005
Former NFL champion coach and longtime broadcaster John Madden will join NBC Sports as the game analyst for the inaugural 2006 season of "NBC's Sunday Night Football," NBC Sports announced Wednesday.
Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics, will make the official announcement later Wednesday about Madden, who has won 14 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Analyst/Personality. He has been an NFL analyst for 25 years, since retiring as coach of the Oakland Raiders.
In 2009, Madden will call his 11th Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., on NBC.
Madden coached the Raiders to an overall record of 103-32-7, including seven AFC Western Division titles and a victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI. His .750 winning percentage is the best of any head coach in NFL history.
He was a linebacker coach to begin his NFL coaching career with Oakland in 1967, and became head coach in 1969 at age 33, the youngest head coach in the old American Football League. Madden retired in 1979 and started his broadcasting career at CBS in 1980. Madden also was the lead NFL analyst for FOX from 1994-2002.
Before coaching in Oakland, Madden was the defensive coordinator at San Diego State from 1964-66 where the Aztecs were ranked first among small colleges with a 26-4 record. From 1960-64 Madden coached at Hancock Junior College in Santa Maria, Calif.
"NBC's Sunday Night Football" is the NFL's primetime network television package. The six-year deal, which includes innovative flexible scheduling, begins with the 2006 season, continues through 2011 and includes Super Bowls in 2009 and 2012 and Pro Bowls in the same years.
For each of the six seasons, NBC will kick off the regular season with a Thursday night primetime game. The first regular season game of the new agreement, NBC's "NFL Kickoff 2006," launches the NFL regular season on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006 in primetime.
The agreement calls for 16 regular-season Sunday night games, each season's "NFL Kickoff" Thursday night primetime game, two postseason Wild Card games and three preseason games in primetime. NBC also will broadcast Super Bowl XLIII in 2009 in Tampa, Fla. and XLVI in 2012, and Pro Bowls in the same years.
Under the deal, the NFL provides flexible game scheduling over the final seven weeks of the regular season. The flexible game selection, offered for the first time by the NFL, ensures marquee matchups over the final seven weeks of the season when many teams' playoff chances are at stake.