Remembering John Madden + Mina Kimes on the future of the Pete Carroll-Russell Wilson Seattle Seahawks
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays begins the episode by remembering NFL Hall of Fame coach and commentator, John Madden. Then, ESPN’s Mina Kimes joins the show to discuss the legacy and future of the Pete Carroll era in Seattle. How did the Seahawks get to this point? Will they trade Russell Wilson? How will the front office approach this offseason? They dive into all of that and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.4 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.6 | The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm. |
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| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today is Wednesday, December 29th. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. Mina Khymes from ESPN is going to be joining us to chat about the past, present, and future of her beloved Seattle Seahawks. Obviously, a period of transition happening in Seattle, a lot going on there. wanted to get meanest take on where the Seahawks. Obviously, period of transition happening in Seattle, a lot going on there. |
| 0:43.5 | Wanted to get meanest take on where the Seahawks are and honestly where they might go. |
| 0:47.1 | Before we do that, though, I wanted to talk about the passing of John Madden. |
| 0:54.4 | Obviously, the news came down on Tuesday evening, and I just wanted to talk about what John Madden meant to, you know, generations of football fans. |
| 1:00.1 | I remember being six years old and playing Madden 94 on my Super Nintendo in my room. |
| 1:02.5 | It was the first iteration of the game that I had. |
| 1:05.6 | It was the first year, the last year, before they had names. |
| 1:08.6 | So Jim Harbaugh was quarterback number four on the Bears. |
| 1:11.5 | And I remember playing the game and obviously there'd be little bits of John Madden commentary, but I remember turning the volume down. |
| 1:16.4 | And I would play the game and I would call the game. I would be my own color commentator and |
| 1:21.3 | play by play guy because I want to be John Madden. It's really the first job in sports that I ever wanted was to call |
| 1:28.5 | games. And so much of that was because of John Madden. We use the term icon to describe some people. |
| 1:35.3 | And John Madden was that. He was unbelievably iconic. And he was ubiquitous. |
| 1:40.5 | 1994 was also the year that Fox got NFL games and hired John Madden. |
| 1:45.4 | So I would watch Bears games every single Sunday, and often it'd be John Madden and Pat Summerall, and you would just hang out with them for three and a half hours every Sunday here and then, and they would be in your living room. |
| 1:59.0 | And the way that John Madden could communicate the game, the way that he could explain |
| 2:04.0 | the game while also giving you a window into his enthusiasm for the game, to not only make |
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