NFL Week 17 - Hall of Fame-caliber coach. Hall of Fame-caliber broadcaster. And developer of the greatest sports video game of all time. John Madden has passed away, age 85.
From 1969 to 1978, Madden's Oakland Raiders went 103-32-7, a .759 winning percentage that tops Vince Lombardi, Bill Walsh, Bill Belichick, Sean McVay, and all of your other favorite coaches. (In NFL history, he is only topped by the .784 mark of Guy Chamberlin, whose last team played nearly a century ago.) But that doesn't come close to capturing his influence on the league. I'm probably not a professional football writer without John Madden.