A conversation on John Madden’s legacy with Sunday Night Football executive producer Fred Gaudelli

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Episode 175 of the Sports Media Podcast features Fred Gaudelli, the executive producer of NBC's Sunday Night Football. In Sept. 2021, he began his 32nd season as the lead producer for an NFL primetime game, and his 16th season producing SNF. In this podcast Gaudelli discusses his relationship with Madden; his first meeting with him; the last time he spoke and visited with Madden; what made Madden unique as a sports television figure; his interest in seeing United States up close and learning about people; how he made Gaudelli a better NFL producer; what Madden thought about his fame; the plan to convince Madden to come out of retirement for one game; the best game Gaudelli and Madden worked together; how players wanted Madden to improve their Madden game rankings when he met with them in production meetings, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, this is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:12.1	A second podcast this week, but I thought it was something I absolutely had to do with the passing of John Madden on Tuesday at the age of 85.
0:23.6	I don't even know where to start, but there's no more influential person in the history of pro football, certainly in terms of modern day.
0:32.6	His impact was as a coach, as a broadcaster, and also obviously as the face of the most famous sports video game that exists.
0:45.8	He connected with multiple generations and you really just cannot underestimate his importance to American sports life and certainly
0:56.9	American sports media life. And so I thought I thought it would be good to have somebody who
1:03.3	worked with Madden for many, many years, was a longtime producer, a confidant. And that is by Fred
1:09.4	Gidelli, the executive producer of NBC Sunday night football,
1:13.2	will be on this podcast for special edition, a conversation on John Madden's legacy coming up on the sports media podcast.
1:25.7	All right, as I said at the top, Fred Goodellie, if you're in the sports media business, doesn't really need an introduction.
1:32.5	For those of you who are sort of more casual to this podcast, his current title is executive producer of NBC's Sunday night football.
1:43.6	In September 2021, he began his 32nd season as the lead
1:49.0	producer for an NFL primetime game and his 16th season producing Sunday night football.
1:55.7	He is in a very, very small class of people who was a producer for John Madden. I don't actually know how long or how many
2:02.7	years or how many seasons or games. He'll tell us, but it's just, you know, he's one of the very
2:07.8	small inner circle who really worked on a day-to-day basis with John and just, I think, could really
2:14.0	get a sense of why he connected with the audience and and what his sort of true
2:18.2	genius was when it comes to this medium. And I'm pleased to be joined by Fred Goodale.
2:22.0	Fred, I know this is a tough week, but thanks for coming on because I think it's important to
2:26.9	talk about just John's legacy and his importance to so many generations.
2:32.3	I agree. I mean, he was a man for many seasons.
2:36.7	Yeah.
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