The NFL is set to honor long-time sports broadcaster John Madden during the league’s Thanksgiving broadcasts this year.
its “John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration,” looking back on Madden’s career on the first Thanksgiving after his passing, the“No one cared more or contributed more to our game than John Madden,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement, the paper reported. “Honoring his memory and impact on the NFL is important and Thanksgiving Day brings all of the elements significant to John to life — family, football, food and fun.
“There’s no place that I would rather be today on Thanksgiving than right here, right now, at a football game,” Madden said at the Bears-Lions Thanksgiving game in 1997. “There are just certain things that go together: the turkey, the family, the tradition, football. … And we have it all today.”
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