{"id":900,"date":"2021-12-29T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:39:51","slug":"john-madden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"John Madden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e202942f90ab9f200c-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12644\" title=\"John madden 1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UGH. Gone suddenIy at 85 years old. This has made the news worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a Raiders fan and of course Madden a larger then life figure (the word &#8220;legendary&#8221; is in all the reports) in broadcasting and the NFL. Below is a one minute tribute from the Raiders (a link) and then from the NFL Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JjWreCIsDKI\">John Madden: \u2018I Was Never Gonna Coach Any Other Team Than the Raiders<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the NFL tribute &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YUNKxf3-Iuo\">NFL Legend John Madden Dies at Age 85<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e20282e13b89ef200b-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12645\" title=\"John madden 2\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UGH. Gone suddenIy at 85 years old. This has made the news worldwide. I was a Raiders fan and of course Madden a larger then life figure (the word &#8220;legendary&#8221; is in all the reports) in broadcasting and the NFL. Below is a one minute tribute from the Raiders (a link) and then from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12646,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/12646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}