The iconic NFL coach and broadcast legend died Tuesday. He was 85.
, in which he played a version of himself helping out Rick Moranis’ rag-tag youth football team. In an episode at the time,dropped by the set and caught with the cast, including Madden, who admitted he did not love the hurry-up and wait of filmmaking.then. “Live television, they say they’re going to kick the ball off at 1 p.m., boom they kick it off at 1 p.m., and then you’re all done.”Cheers
, which apparently was written with him in mind. The late Nicholas Colasanto went on to play the role from the 1982 pilot until his death in 1985.first started, they wrote me in as the bartender, Coach,” Madden said. “So, I talked about it. If the thing fails, you’re a failure, and I didn’t want to lose. And if the thing won, which obviously it did, then I would have had to quit what I was doing, what I loved. So, I couldn’t figure out why I should do it.
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