Local and national reaction to John Madden’s retirement

 
BY MEL BRACHT
Published: April 17, 2009

→David Garrett, Fox Sports Radio (KEBC-AM 1340) sports director: "He helped everyone understand how the game is played, without bogging us down in coach-speak or complicated descriptions. He was like a kid on a chalkboard with the telestrator, but we always came away knowing why a play worked. Then, he never took himself so serious as to speak over our heads. He used ‘slobber-knocker’ and R...

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