our uh first guest is a sports legend both on and off the field he's been the nfl's premier color
commentator for more than 25 years and recently was inducted into the professional pro football
hall of fame ladies and gentlemen here's john madden good to have you on the show nice uh nice
to see you how are things going pretty good dave i mean i mean there's a lot of places you could be
but i mean anytime you're in a place like this you think i mean i mean things start to get you want
to be on a in a funny place and this is one of those funny places and for another place and it's
not as funny but i mean why am i in that place i what i wanted to be was in a funny place and boom
i mean right now today good thank you thank you uh well it's an exciting time for uh you and football
i mean you're in the hall of fame and you went to a new network and everything how's all that going
yeah i mean a new network i mean you wouldn't know about switching networks today but i mean
it it's just what i was saying that you know you go to a different place and you do different
things still working with al michaels of course the greatest announcer in the world if you don't
count like 30 or 40 other guys
i mean i mean he stands out of box yeah to be the same height as me but i mean i mean
i mean i mean it's great working there and great doing what we're doing there
and and doing the things we do and as long as we keep doing them i mean
i mean you know that's all about yeah it is i mean it's like the hokey pokey put your right foot in
you take your right foot out you put your right foot in you shake it all about you
do the hokey pokey to turn yourself around boom and that's what that's all about now uh
coach do you mind if i call you coach
i mean i mean i coach is fine i think coaches are i mean over the years one of the interesting
things one of the many interesting things i've i've known about you or i think i know about you
is that you don't fly definitely i mean don't like to fly you're afraid of flying a little
bit of claustrophobia i mean you know you can't get out of a plane i mean you can get out of a
car or a bus you know where to take the cruiser but i mean you can't get out of a plane i mean
people i don't think were meant to fly i mean and and if people were meant to fly they'd have wings
people don't have but then again i mean what do you think about it i'm sorry well turkeys have
wings and they don't fly either but that's a good point they do taste good i mean it's very tasty
yeah that's i mean anything with wings pretty much is a pretty tasty treat i mean if i could what if
i could right what i would do is put wings on a cow and that would be like a flying burger
i mean there you go that's right exactly uh now do you mind if i
ask you a couple of football questions and i i watch uh the game and i don't
pretend to understand it but i enjoy it but same thing with me
but what uh down down by contact can you explain that rule down by context i mean not now they can
review down by context before you couldn't review it now you can review it that means if a guy's
running they blow the whistle you can keep playing i mean i mean look at it
you can still get it i mean that's the thing it used to be where you couldn't
get hit but now let me know look out some people are still coming for you
realize that that that could be a potential hazard to people but at the same time you've seen a guy
lose the ball before and now the other team can get the ball even after the whistles blow yeah
at least those are the notes i've gotten yeah yeah now um now how about this you hear terms uh
referred to a player as being uh probable uh questionable or doubtful what uh can you interpret
those three probable was that question you're probably going to ask it you know i just did it
yeah and that's what happens when you ask you know players probable that means he's going to play
he probably is going to play and then questionable is my answer on this and you know i'm not sure if
i really know and doubtful is if you'll ever ask a real question like that again
none of that made any sense i mean i make a living there
that's the difference here they don't clap for you in the booth i mean i mean
that's right i mean always never standing there going how many things do you believe in miracles
clapping i mean that doesn't happen doesn't happen let me ask you about uh brett favre brett favre
bro i mean brett favre is an unbelievable player i mean you know you know the greek gods you know
he's one step above that i mean really if you could clone brett favre and put him in all the
positions on the field and then you played against another team of clone black fires i think the
universe would explode i mean i i think my head's going to explode just trying to think about that
nothing i'm okay man i thought something's going to happen though but i just kept it it could take
that's what happened every time you think about brett favre i mean just things start to happen
and you know things start to move inside and you know you want to get up and dance
or something like that and you hold it back and realize i mean there's no real reason to dance
let me uh we're running out of time here thank the lord but let me uh
let me ask your prediction coach for the super bowl i know it's early but you would know you
have some insight well i mean i would say brett farm's going to win it by himself but
you can't i mean you can't i mean i mean you can't win the super bowl by yourself
you really can't defense wins championships and players do i don't know what the saying is but
i think that the super bowl champion probably the winner of the afc championship and the winner of
the nfc championship and the two teams that play in that game they're that decides the winner i
mean only one team leaves the super bowl as the winner and everybody else loses their
last game so if you win your last game every year you're probably the super bowl winner
well i know i know you get a run to get ready for the big game sunday
night i got to get to san diego what a city family you're going to drive out of here
i think i made a wrong turn yeah all right well good to see you have a great season