Legendary football coach and broadcaster John Madden is retiring, he announced Thursday.

 John Madden appears at the TV Critics Association Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, in 2008.
“It’s been such a great ride … the NFL has been my life for more than 40 years, it has been my passion — it still is,” he said in a statement released by NBC Sports.

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