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John Madden coached the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, finishing with a career record of 103-32-7 in regular-season games. His overall winning percentage, including playoff games, is the highest among NFL head coaches who coached at least 100 games, ranking second in league history only behind Guy Chamberlin.
Madden won Super Bowl XI on the 9th of January, 1977, when his Oakland Raiders defeated the Minnesota Vikings 32-14. It was the franchise's first Super Bowl title and Madden's only NFL championship as a head coach.
Madden had his first panic attack on a plane in 1979 on a flight out of Tampa, Florida, and never flew again. He attributed his fear primarily to claustrophobia. The loss of friends in the Cal Poly football team plane crash on the 29th of October, 1960 - which killed 16 players, a student manager, and a booster - had deeply affected him years before.
John Madden won 16 Sports Emmy Awards during his broadcasting career. He also won the 2002 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award and was ranked second on Yahoo! Sports' list of the top 50 all-time network television sports announcers.
The John Madden Football series launched in 1988, following planning conversations between Madden and Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins that began in 1984. Madden conceived of the game as an educational tool for teaching football plays.
Madden worked for CBS from 1979 to 1993, Fox Sports from 1994 to 2001, ABC from 2002 to 2005, and NBC from 2006 to 2009. He was the first sportscaster to have provided commentary for all four major American broadcast television networks.