The Last Great Booth
John Madden, Pat Summerall, and the Golden Age of American FootballBy Christopher Prince
Length2h 46m
About this audiobook
Before the noise, there was the booth.
For twenty-one consecutive autumns — from 1981 to 2002 — two very different men sat side by side in a broadcast booth high above an NFL football field and produced something that American sports television has not seen since and may never see again.
One man barely spoke. The other couldn't stop. One measured every word like a man who understood that silence was its own form of power. The other turned a felt-tip stylus into an art form and a three-bird roast into a national conversation. Together, Pat Summerall and John Madden didn't just call football games. They made football sacred.
The Last Great Booth is the story of how they did it.
It is the story of two men who arrived at the broadcast booth by complete accident — a former Giants kicker who stumbled into radio after retirement, a Super Bowl-winning Raiders coach who nearly quit CBS after his first disastrous season. It is the story of the CBS executive who put them in the same room and changed sports television forever. And it is the story of what they built across twenty-one years of Sunday afternoons, eight Super Bowls, and the kind of trust that most professional partnerships spend entire careers trying and failing to develop.
Drawing on extensive research and deep archival work, Christopher Prince delivers a love letter to an era of broadcasting that rewrote the rules of how a sport could be heard, felt, and loved.
For anyone who still turns up the volume and listens for something that isn't quite there anymore.
Audiobook details
GenreOther, Biography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2The Last Great Booth (pt. 1)
3The Last Great Booth (pt. 2)
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