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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (13 Viewers)

Sullie said:
My brother and I grew up watching the NFL in the 70’s and 80’s with Madden and Summerall on CBS and then Cossell, Gifford, Dandy Don on MNF.  We had Alcoa fantastic finishes, Madden football games, all of those fantastic teams, players, coaches and football games.  We had no idea how spoiled rotten we were.  Thanks Coach Madden!  RIP!
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Kind of up there with Mr Rodgers and Bill Murray types that are pretty much universally loved. How could you not love that big lug. 

 
Mr. Mojo said:
Madden & Summerall

Best team ever.
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They brought the NFL to another level.  My enjoyment of the game dropped off when Madden stopped doing games. 

As I've gotten older, my mind will sometimes play tricks on me where I expect to see, just for a few seconds, loved ones during the Holidays that passed many years ago.  The same goes for Madden and Summerall, particularly on Thanksgiving. 

 
I've been a bit late to the party. I miss prime Madden. He was a treasure in the broadcast booth. I know he was a coach, but am too young to really remember him as such. Back when I was four or five, I knew Chuck Noll and Tom Landry and that was about it. Madden had flown under the radar in that respect. 

I was such a little Steelers fan with my Cowboys helmet (traitor!) at that point. I would play imaginary games in the front yard when nobody else wanted to play football. (They were off playing war with toy guns, IIRC. Talk about boys.) Life would move on, and I'd lose youthful dreams of being a football player (my town had no team or teams to speak of) and I'd eventually come to know Madden and football through the booth, really. What a presence he was there. BOOM! The telestrator. The turducken. All of the things that went with it. By all accounts, he was the real deal, though. No image, no garbage. 

RIP, John Madden. 

 
WEIRD THOUGHT:

You couldnt get more different than the two cultural icons who passed away this past week. John Madden & Joan Didion. What's weird about that is that what both did for us was almost identical - tell the truth in the most human possible terms about life's most dramatic situations.

Spent much of the day listening to this and watched All Madden this evening and just became impossibly sad during the latter, because i felt overwhelmed by how unlikely it would be if either of them attempted to come to the fore today. Is there a more important element to truth than authenticity in our story-tellers and has the world ever oriented itself to squeeze past and willfully ignore ingenuousness more than it seems intend to do now?

We are how we know.

 
wikkidpissah said:
WEIRD THOUGHT:

You couldnt get more different than the two cultural icons who passed away this past week. John Madden & Joan Didion. What's weird about that is that what both did for us was almost identical - tell the truth in the most human possible terms about life's most dramatic situations.
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I love and agree with this notion.  Another bit I love is that I'm certain that each of them would have been pleased and honored by the comparison.

Not sure I'm at your same level of pessimism regarding the rest, which is odd in that I'm as low in my expectations of humankind as I've ever been.  Need to consider your thoughts on this further, though.

 
wikkidpissah said:
WEIRD THOUGHT:

You couldnt get more different than the two cultural icons who passed away this past week. John Madden & Joan Didion. What's weird about that is that what both did for us was almost identical - tell the truth in the most human possible terms about life's most dramatic situations.

Spent much of the day listening to this and watched All Madden this evening and just became impossibly sad during the latter, because i felt overwhelmed by how unlikely it would be if either of them attempted to come to the fore today. Is there a more important element to truth than authenticity in our story-tellers and has the world ever oriented itself to squeeze past and willfully ignore ingenuousness more than it seems intend to do now?

We are how we know.
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I hate that this is spot on. But love you for articulating it. 

 
krista4 said:
I love and agree with this notion.  Another bit I love is that I'm certain that each of them would have been pleased and honored by the comparison.

Not sure I'm at your same level of pessimism regarding the rest, which is odd in that I'm as low in my expectations of humankind as I've ever been.  Need to consider your thoughts on this further, though.
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Ron Swanson said:
I hate that this is spot on. But love you for articulating it. 
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i like these posts and thank the authors for responding as they did

 
GroveDiesel said:
Crazy. They had a huge birthday party and tv special lined up. Magazines already went out with headlines like “Betty White is 100!!”
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My Grandfather always rounded up as he got older.  He made it to 96, only a few weeks short of 97 but 97 in his book.  I'll give Betty 100 for all the good energy she brought us.  

 
simey said:
:cry:   I was just reading a recent interview with her two days ago.  She was as awesome as awesomeness gets. I hope her and Allen Ludden are together again catching up on all of their missed time.  RIP Betty
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They were very much in love and a devoted couple. She never remarried after his death some 40 years ago:

From Wiki:

In an interview on Larry King Live, when asked whether or not she would remarry, Betty White replied by saying, "Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?

 
simey said:
I hope her and Allen Ludden are together again catching up on all of their missed time.  RIP Betty
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Amazing that she outlived him by 40 years. Never wanted to get remarried - a truly great Hollywood marriage.

ETA: squistion  beat me to it 

 
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Cant remember which interview well enough to search it, but i once saw Miss White speak at length and with great joy about winging it for five & a half hours daily of local morning programming in the early '50s. Above the squijillion personality things we loved her for, she was also a broadcaster, which is the greatest compliment i can give a TV performer. RIP -

 
Mister CIA said:
Sam Jones, Boston Celtics guard, dead at 88.
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went to his basketball camp in N Easton MA in the summer of '69. they (inc. one of the two great mento9rs of my life, John Killilea) converted my growthspurt awkwardness into a decent pick&roll post player and i subsequently started varsity my next & last scholastic year. thank you, Mr Automatic. Rest in Points.

 
wikkidpissah said:
went to his basketball camp in N Easton MA in the summer of '69. they (inc. one of the two great mento9rs of my life, John Killilea) converted my growthspurt awkwardness into a decent pick&roll post player and i subsequently started varsity my next & last scholastic year. thank you, Mr Automatic. Rest in Points.
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Do you know EVERYBODY?!?!!!

 
My friend told us tonight that Betty white was the speaker at her veterinarian graduation. Her mom got to speak with her and get a picture somehow. My friend said her passion for animals was just palpable in the room. Something she would never forget. RIP. 

 
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