Heard on the news this morning John Madden passed away. Football will never be the same.
As a kid I lived for his latest Miller Lite commercial where he would *BAM* his way through a wall or whatever. He was the greatest.
When I was in college in 1992 and the Super Bowl was in town (Minneapolis), the Madden Cruiser (his giant bus as Madden didn't fly) came rolling through the tight turns of campus and his bus nearly ran over my foot hopping the curb. The Madden Cruiser had these giant windows that I could see in to and I was four feet away from Madden, Pat Summerall, Terry Bradshaw, and a few others I can't remember.
I ended up running in to Jim Kelly and a few other players at the bar, but I was more stoked about nearly getting BAMMED by the Madden Cruiser than being five feet away from Jim Kelly or Chip Lohmiller.
