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.

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Football covercoming baseball as the national pastime in the United States can be directly attributed to gambling and fantasy. Seriously, is there any reason to sneak beer into the dorm and watch a football game when your favorite team is not even playing, unless you have a couple of C-Notes on it? I think not.

But where did fantasy football come from? What unheralded genius is responsible for making every Sunday afternoon from September to January a national holiday?

His name is Wilfred Winkenbach. (more…)