# Anyone else think John Madden shouldn't be on the air anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 27, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457 "2006-08-27T21:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/41 "2006-08-30T14:18:23Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] …and let’s throw in the apes who cover college football for ESPN (Fowler/Herbstreit/May/Corso) as well… [/QUOTE] Are you serious? I _love_ the ESPN college football crew. ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/42 "2006-08-30T15:30:53Z")
Just be glad we didn’t have to put up with\*\* Madden AND Cosell\*\* at the same time. My God what pair they would’ve made. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/43 "2006-08-30T15:38:09Z")
“Look at that little monkey run!” “Howard, in my experience it is the team with the monkiest monkeys that win the game. You can have the littlest monkeys on the field, but the game always goes to who wants their monkeys more. I mean, look at Brett Farve - no monkey wants it greater than he, and that’s what makes Brett Brett: his essential monkeyness and how he translates that to wins.” ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/44 "2006-08-30T17:55:13Z")
[QUOTE=Hippy Hollow] But great players fuck up (see Favre for the past two seasons and so far this preseason) and you need to be able to note this. [/QUOTE] Actually, Favre had a very good season two years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/45 "2006-08-30T18:07:59Z")
I’ve not watched enough Packers games to notice the Favre love-fest, but Madden will be lost doing Cowboy games not that Larry Allen is not around. I swear Madden wanted to have Larry Allen’s love child. He would proclaim Larry Allen the best offensive lineman to ever play the game at least 20 times a game. Even in his declining years when he would occasionally slip a block, Larry Allen was the greatest. I eventually got tired of it and turned down the sound. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/46 "2006-08-30T18:13:16Z")
Get rid of John Maddening! I try watching the games with the volume down but he keeps putting those damn graphics up. I’d rather have a retarded chimp and a syphilitic hippo do the color commentary. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457/47 "2006-08-31T14:08:54Z")
He repeats like an idiot and has nothing new or special in his viewpoint. He is terrible.No insights nothing. A distraction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-think-john-madden-shouldnt-be-on-the-air-anymore/370457.md?page=2)