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Seven Songs as Confusing as John Madden's Telestrated Instant-Replay Diagrams

Football legend John Madden, finally, at age 73—after three decades as an NFL television analyst—announced his retirement from broadcasting yesterday.Sure, we admit that Madden is a charming and lovable—if mildly insane—Grandpa Bear, and that he knows a whole lot about the game to which he's devoted most of his life as a player, coach and commentator. But, really, did anyone ever understand what the hell he was getting at with all those little hastily scrawled telestrator arrows?Every year, at some point during one of the Thanksgiving-day NFL games, Madden would take a time out to diagram a turducken—which would've been...  read more