Madden & Summerall: How They Revolutionized NFL Broadcasting – by Rich Podolksy

I was aware of who Madden and Summerall were and was eager to read this book.

I am glad this book didn’t go into extreme details for every NFL game John Madden and Pat Summerall worked together as broadcast partners. This book highlighted how they got started as broadcasters and how they got together as told from people who had a front row seat to them, as well as Pat’s playing career and John’s coaching career. There were plenty of stories from them both before and during there time together, and for John’s, I had a quite a few LOL moments.

Discussed in the book is Pat’s alcoholism, John’s claustrophobia, and of course there deaths. Of course, EA Sports and the Madden game franchise is mentioned along with the All-Madden NFL teams.

The stories of everything are told by Pat, John, work colleagues, former players, friends, family, and the author himself.

I was thinking of one word that comes to mind for all the games Madden and Summerall worked as a team, and that word is DESTINY. I am reading another book about two NBA players who came together to win a championship, and DESTINY again is a word that describes them.