This year the NFL will once again celebrate Madden on Thanksgiving, with tributes to Madden airing on Fox, CBS and NBC during the Packers-Lions, Chiefs-Cowboys and Bengals-Ravens games.
Players on all six teams will wear patches honoring Madden’s legacy on their jerseys, and the coin toss for all three games will feature a silhouette of Madden as the head and a six-legged turducken as the tail.
The MVP of each of the three games will receive a Madden Trophy and will select a high school or youth football program that will receive a $10,000 donation from the NFL Foundation. Merchandise from all three games will also be auctioned off and proceeds will go to the John Madden Foundation for Oakland youth.
As part of the Bengals-Ravens game, Peacock will offer an EA Sports Madden NFL Cast that blends elements of the video game with the live broadcast. Madden NFL Cast will use the Sky Cam angle behind the quarterback as the primary camera angle, the same primary angle that Madden players are accustomed to.
Madden was known to one generation of football fans as a Hall of Fame coach, to another as the NFL’s most popular broadcaster, and to a third generation for the video game bearing his name. He died in December 2021 at the age of 85. Since 2022, the NFL has honored him every year on Thanksgiving.
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