Mark Madden Appreciation Thread (ceiling, parent, growing)

[S6T1R]

January ratings dropped: #1 for men aged 25-54. Just unreal domination.

Also, bit of a hilarious snippet that MM, who has said numerous times he has ridiculously small hands, measured his and they’re 1/8” bigger than Pickett’s. He said he wouldn’t draft him because of that and he probably needs 2 hands to throw an NFL ball. No lies detected!!

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by S6T1R

January ratings dropped: #1 for men aged 25-54. Just unreal domination.

Also, bit of a hilarious snippet that MM, who has said numerous times he has ridiculously small hands, measured his and they’re 1/8” bigger than Pickett’s. He said he wouldn’t draft him because of that and he probably needs 2 hands to throw an NFL ball. No lies detected!!

Best part of today’s show was when he said folks live vicariously through him, and he certainly hit the nail on the head with that one, lol.

He also said he wanted more money for it. Link to him making $350k/year?

Interesting, as he was recently praising Pickett not long ago, said he was going to be a good NFL qb, but I do love the talk of his hands as though there’s anything near significant different from a college ball to an NFL ball.

[loose cannon]

An embarassment to Pro Wrestling. His disrespect of Bruno Sammartino was criminal. Then in the dying days of WCW he helped kill it with his mere presence as an announcer. He was awful. It is sad that Ric Flair does a podcast with him. He is just like Eskin and Cataldi across the Commonwealth in Philly. All these people are vultures.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by loose cannon

An embarassment to Pro Wrestling. His disrespect of Bruno Sammartino was criminal. Then in the dying days of WCW he helped kill it with his mere presence as an announcer. He was awful. It is sad that Ric Flair does a podcast with him. He is just like Eskin and Cataldi across the Commonwealth in Philly. All these people are vultures.

What did he say about Bruno that was criminal?

So it was already dying. How can an announcer announcing scripted fake wrestling kill it by his presence when it was already dying?

[Copanut]

Mark does seem to dislike some local fan favorites, Myron Cope comes to mind. Hated Stargell because he supposedly was rude to his Mom. No love for Bruno, think he thought Bruno was dumb cuz he wouldn't admit wrestling was fake. Gee, wasn't that the company line when Bruno was active? MM says that one former talks show host he admired was Bruce Keiden who I always thought was an arrogant SOB. Keiden had it in for Bruno as well and had the same love for Nature Boy Flair. He did an interview with Bruno and was rude as hell. I called him a week later and asked him why he was so buddy-buddy with Flair and treated Bruno like crap. Next thing I hear is "click". Never answered the question.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Copanut

Mark does seem to dislike some local fan favorites, Myron Cope comes to mind. Hated Stargell because he supposedly was rude to his Mom. No love for Bruno, think he thought Bruno was dumb cuz he wouldn't admit wrestling was fake. Gee, wasn't that the company line when Bruno was active? MM says that one former talks show host he admired was Bruce Keiden who I always thought was an arrogant SOB. Keiden had it in for Bruno as well and had the same love for Nature Boy Flair. He did an interview with Bruno and was rude as hell. I called him a week later and asked him why he was so buddy-buddy with Flair and treated Bruno like crap. Next thing I hear is "click". Never answered the question.

I watched wrestling around grade school age and did find it entertaining. I remember asking my dad why they would walk back to the same place after beating each other up and his reply was “because it’s fake”. Still makes me laugh, and I’m also amazed at how folks live for it.

There’s some interesting stories out there about Myron. I was long done watching wrestling by the time Madden came along and his “feud” with Bruno, however, he obviously knows those guys better than most, and he still has wrestlers from past and present on his show from time to time.

Many take his schtick too seriously, as he’s zero like his show persona in person. I definitely immediately thought of this forum and started laughing when he said today on his show that folks live vicariously through him. Unless he frequents this forum has know idea how true that is, lol.

[S6T1R]

Liverpool is the greatest ever sports franchise in the world.

Ric Flair is the greatest professional athlete of all time.

I dare any of you to call in and argue with Mark otherwise.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by S6T1R

Liverpool is the greatest ever sports franchise in the world.

Ric Flair is the greatest professional athlete of all time.

I dare any of you to call in and argue with Mark otherwise.

Don’t think anyone else here is obsessed enough with Madden to call in about a team many couldn’t care less about, or have paid much attention to fake wrestling since they were young, to take that dare.

I think I’ve heard maybe 4 calls in the last year about Liverpool and the same about Rick Flair…although the “WOOOO” at Pirate games cracks me up. Amazing how easily it can be heard with barely anyone in the stands.

[S6T1R]

People try to dunk on Madden because the local rubes don’t care about Liverpool, meanwhile on an international scale, they’re a franchise so major and significant that the Steelers aren’t even a pimple on their ass. Know your place.

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by S6T1R

People try to dunk on Madden because the local rubes don’t care about Liverpool, meanwhile on an international scale, they’re a franchise so major and significant that the Steelers aren’t even a pimple on their ass. Know your place.

Lol. Nobody’s dunking on Madden because local folks don’t care about Liverpool. It’s just that most nobody in Pittsburgh cares about Liverpool, which you just admitted.

Except Pittsburgh sports talk isn’t international sports talk…but you quoting Madden and living through him is interesting.