With the legendary John Madden on his way out of broadcasting, another former Raider coach is preparing to make his debut.

Jon Gruden has been selected to replace Tony Kornheiser in the booth for the upcoming season of Monday Night Football, alongside holdovers Mike Tirico and Ron Jaworski.  Gruden’s background and success in coaching on the professional level will give the team a more dynamic ability to dissect the game from upstairs, much like Madden did across an illustrious career of 30 years.

The team of Tirico, Jaws, and Gruden now seems complete – the journalist/anchor background, the former NFL quarterback, and now the former Super Bowl winning coach.  Each basis is now covered.

While Gruden’s edgy style will likely differ than Madden’s blatant straight-forwardness, it will be interesting to see how he adapts from coaching NFL players to publicly analyzing them within the same year. It won’t take long for Gruden to see familiar faces, as the opening Monday Night game is slated for an Oakland Raiders home game against the San Diego Chargers.

Who knows – we might be looking at the next Madden, even down to the Playstation 4 debut video game, Gruden NFL ‘16.

John Madden is calling it quits.

NBC said Thursday that the burly ex-coach who has been one pro football’s top broadcast analysts has decided to retire. The 73-year-old Madden has been working for the past three seasons on NBC’s Sunday night NFL game. His last telecast was the Super Bowl between Arizona and Pittsburgh.

Madden’s football video game is one of the highest sellign video games in history, check out 20 Years of Madden Coveres for a good perspective of how the NFL has evolved since 1990.

Check out all the details and tune to ESPN at noon for the press conference.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Since you’re going to be celebrating the holiday, refresh your memory of how this whole turkey-eating thing started with pilgrims Christopher Walken and John Madden. (Ok, it’s not exactly how it happened, but whatever. It’s F’ing funny.)

Sports are arguably too important in the average guy’s life. Guys are the ones arguing against that point. Sports cause guys to skip family events and work obligations for meaningless mid-season games and preseason action. Yet there is the negative half of sports; the kinds of things that make the average guy cringe at when he spends his average 60 hours a week “with” his favorite teams. Now there can be a number of things guys hate about sports, but I thought I’d come up with just a few:

Check out Top 10 Things Guys Hate About Sports after the flip! (more…)

Pilgrims Christopher Walken and John Madden land in the new world. They must decide whether to give thanks for it, or completely annihilate it…

Wanna know what stinks? Celebrities.

Maxim listed the 16 “Famous People Who Look Like They Smell” and I must admit, just looking at the pictures makes me feel sick. Some of these people are really f**kin’ grimy.

After the jump I’ll break down the 6 smelliest looking celebrities; make sure you check out the Maxim list to see the full 16. (more…)