# John Madden moves to NBC. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463 "2005-06-16T00:21:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/1 "2005-06-16T00:21:36Z")
I just read that Madden is switching to NBC. [Link](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16761,00.html?tnews). Hooray! I can now enjoy Monday Night Football again! ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/2 "2005-06-16T01:16:40Z")
Now would be a good time to invest in pot roast futures, then. (My buddies and I for years have followed any mention of John Madden with “Now there’s a man who enjoys a good pot roast,” since he’s a rather portly fellow.) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/3 "2005-06-16T02:25:30Z")
**boom!** ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/4 "2005-06-16T04:57:35Z")
whats he gonna cover at NBC? Wimbledon? Track and Field? Rythmic Gynastics? ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/5 "2005-06-16T04:59:34Z")
> [@Soylent Gene](#): > > whats he gonna cover at NBC? > > Wimbledon? Track and Field? Rythmic Gynastics? Sunday Night Football. ESPN’s giving the Sunday night game up to get MNF, and Madden’s moving to NBC because ESPN can’t really afford him. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/6 "2005-06-16T05:18:02Z")
As long as they don’t put Costas with him (you need ONE person who’ll pay attention to the game up in the booth), Madden should be fine for a year or so. What Al Michaels is going to do is the bigger question. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-madden-moves-to-nbc/308463/7 "2005-06-16T05:25:27Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > As long as they don’t put Costas with him (you need ONE person who’ll pay attention to the game up in the booth), Madden should be fine for a year or so. What Al Michaels is going to do is the bigger question. Costas is gonna host the studio show, supposedly, if A) they can get his ego-inflated head in the studio and B) he’ll stop pretending to have important baseball opinions long enough to watch the game. Bob Costas is like the unholy love child of Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan. Worthless in the booth, and he thinks people really give a rat’s ass about his opinion on how relief pitching has changed since the 1980s.