Bill Belichick Spends 12 Minutes Remembering ‘Great’ John Madden

Wednesday was a sad day for the NFL world. We lost a legend. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick delivered an emotional message following the death of John Madden. The NFL legend died Tuesday at 85. We don’t have any information on the cause of his death.

In Wednesday’s news conference, head coach Belichick talked about Madden and his role in the NFL. Similar to Belichick, coaches and players were well aware of Madden’s skills.

“Our condolences to the Madden family,” Belichick said. “It’s a huge loss for the NFL, professional football. John is just a tremendous person to be around. I think we probably all set out to try to have a good professional career; John had about five of them. He set the standard for coaching in his era. … Certainly did a lot for the league and the competitiveness of the league. He was a great champion for minorities and minority scouting. And some of the great players that they had with the Raiders, you know, from some of the smaller Black colleges, that he and coach (Al) Davis brought into the organization. He moved to broadcasting, certainly increased the popularity of the game singlehandedly by quite a bit. I don’t know how you’d ever measure it. … A lot of people who probably didn’t even care about football found John entertaining and probably watched football because of him.

” … John did a lot for player safety. I know he was on several committees in the league, advisory and so forth, in studying safety of the game, player safety. He was instrumental in a lot of those changes and improvements to help player safety.”

Of course, Belichick has been around for a while and he knows Madden really well. They were good friends, too.

Bill Belichick, NFL world praises John Madden

Madden will be remembered for his great efforts in terms of player safety. He was part of several committees in the NFL. This great man led to many changes in the NFL and players play under great conditions thanks to him. If only the world had more people like him.

Madden helped the then-Oakland Raiders to the very first Super Bowl win in 1977. He retired from coaching and became a television analyst. Should we even mention that this legendary men became the face of Madden NFL Football?

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Nobody loved football more than Coach.”

Indeed.