John Madden’s Life in Football Through Photos

“The Oakland Raiders have scored on the most zany, unbelievable, absolutely impossible dream of a play,” Bill King, the Raiders’ radio broadcaster, announced. “Madden is on the field, he wants to know if it’s real. They said, ‘Yes, get your big butt out of here.’ He does. There’s nothing real in the world anymore. This one will be relived, forever.”

Indeed. The N.F.L. later changed its rule on forward fumbles.

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