Here’s a reworking of a post I wrote back in 2016 when ESPN Films premired doc The 85 Bears celebrating the Chicago Bears Super Bowl XX winning football team coached by John Madden. With Madden’s passing yesterday, I thought I’d post a photo I took of he and the QB of ’85 Bears, Jim McMahon. Madden (former player, a coach who never had a losing season, a top broadcaster, and perhaps now best known as the name behind EA Sports video game Madden NFL).
In the photo above the two were gathered with many other professional football players for a celebrity golf tournament in San Luis Obispo, California. I was working back then as a photographer for Yary Photo which was co-owned by Wayne Yary and his brother Ron Yary—who was a Pro Football Hall-of-Fame offensive lineman with the Minnesota Vikings. (Ron also played in four Super Bowls.)
It made me think of some other shoots I did with some football greats and they include a video shoot in Dallas with Deion Sanders, a 16mm film shoot in Calabasas, California with Eric Dickerson, and Reggie White in Tampa, Florida. All Pro Football Hall of Fame members. And back when I was a 19-year-old small town journalist, I interviewed Doug Williams who went on to become the Super Bowl XXII MVP.
Good Memories. Looking forward to the Super Bowl 50 game today.
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