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LOS ANGELES - The concept of playing an NFL game on Christmas Day sounded a lot better to Jay Feely when the schedule came out in the spring than it did as the holiday season approached. It was 2010, and Feely was kicking for the Arizona Cardinals, who were 5-10 and going nowhere. They were playing host to Dallas, likewise stuck in the mud at 5-10. "If you play or practice on Christmas morning, there's always a little bit of 'bah humbug' to it," said Feely, who kicked for...
John Madden was so much more than a Super Bowl-winning coach, legendary broadcaster and someone who built a video-game empire. He was a regular guy. "What made him so popular was that he was so genuine and so accessible," said Al Michaels, who worked in the ABC and NBC broadcast booths with Madden for seven years. "In traveling around the country, John had a great connection with city folk, rural folk, with farmers, with people out there doing the grunt work. He just had this...