Hello and welcome to mind of Micah today it's part three of Micah's Read of the

Week about coach, broadcaster, and eSports icon John Madden let's get to it but

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out 16 in 1981 Madden and his co-host Pat Someral began a run of 22

straight Thanksgiving football games as a token of appreciation to the

production team the network began playing together an annual banquet of

day or two before the game just to say thanks everyone enjoyed the concept in

the first few words good as advertised but Madden himself was nagged by one

thing what about the refs members of the officiating crew were also

sacrificing their time away from their family to put on football game so early

in the run he went to CBS with a request could they attend the feast and from

that day too the ref said as well in the fall of 97 this is 17

point one in the fall of 97 Madden and Someral were coming to a town for a

Saints broadcast a New Orleans radio personality mentioned that somebody on a

honor ought to introduce Madden to the turducken a Louisiana invented meat

monstrosity of duck and chicken stuffed into a turkey word filtered back to

Madden and sure enough local restauranteur Glenn Mistrich got a call Madden wanted

fried the turducken at the time mrs. was selling about 200 turducken's a

year almost all of which were purchased by locals around Thanksgiving he jumped

at the chance to expose one of the nation's foremost TV foodies to the

turducken he went to the super dome before the Saints game that Sunday with a

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