Breaking news: John Madden to take a week off!
Check out this story from Syosset's own Len Shapiro in The Washington Post: John Madden is missing a game, for the first time . . . ever.
Apparently John and Al Michaels mentioned this on the air Sunday night. I didn't hear it, but Len did and followed up.
NBC swears there is nothing more to it than Dick Ebersol wanting to give Madden a week off so he could avoid traveling (by bus, of course) from West Coast to East for the Seahawks-Bucs game.
The Sunday after next is a bye for NBC because of the World Series, so this gives Madden a two-weekend break at his northern California home.
Cris Collinsworth will fill in for the big guy this coming Sunday night.
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Comments (3)
Probably another GE cost cutting measure, they don't want to give him the mileage reimbursement for such a long trip.
Neil,
Don't scare me like that!! For a moment I thought that John Madden, center and top penalty killer for the New Jersey Devils was out for a week!!
Football? Eh... not interested. Real athletes play more than a sixteen game season. The real action is on the ice.
With the Seahawks playing, I'm sure Michaels wishes he was off too.