1978 – Retires from coaching the Oakland Raiders
1979 – Joins CBS Sports at a color commentator and is teamed with Gary Bender on regional NFL games.
1981 – CBS Sports President Van Gordon Sauter and Executive Producer Terry O’Neil team Madden with Pat Summerall on the network’s “A” broadcasts.
1982 – Summerall and Madden call Super Bowl XVI, the first of five they would call together for CBS Sports.
1984 – Creates the All-Madden Team which became a regular network special before the Super Bowl.
1980’s & 1990’s – On Thanksgiving Day games, Madden would award turkey drumsticks to players of the winning team. Eventually, they became Turduckens, a combination of turkey and duck with eight drumsticks.
1993 – Summerall and Madden leave CBS Sports when it loses the NFL and move to Fox Sports where they would call three more Super Bowls.
2002 – Madden joins ESPN/ABC to call Monday Night Football with Al Michaels. They would call two Super Bowls for ABC.
2006 – Michaels and Madden leave ESPN/ABC to join NBC to be the announcing team for Sunday Night Football. Madden became the first man to work for all of the NFL’s network over the air TV partners.
February 1, 2009 – Michaels and Madden call Super Bowl XLIII.
April 16, 2009 – Madden announces his retirement from broadcasting.
