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The video game with his name and likeness that kept generations of gamers glued to their screens. the nfl today mourning a once in a lifetime figure with many players including tom brady paying tribute to a legend of the game. the raiders writing, few individuals meant as much to the growth and popularity of professional football as coach madden whose impact on the game on and off the field was immeasurable. >> and he loved the game like nobody has ever loved the game of football. and you knew i...

Madden is. the iconic nfl coach and emmy award winning broadcaster died on tuesday at the age of 85. nbcs sam brock has more on the life of a legend. sam? >> reporter: good afternoon and good to be with you. if john maddens life was a book, there could be three distinct chapters, coaching, broadcasting and then pop culture icon and his impact on all of those things was his big as his personality. he never played as a professional football player because of a bad injury which was a incredible gif...

Sale for the first time ever only when ralph wilson died in 2014 after owning it for 54 years. that team was for sale in 2014 and a motley crew lined up to try and buy the team. not motley crew the band, but rather a motley crew. a food service mogul. a natural gas billionaire. a bond investor from santa monica. the person who owned pabst blue ribbon and jon bon jovi who is jon bon jovi and also donald trump, who you know from other contexts. all of these folks were lining up to try to buy the b...

Reported in the new york times is that apparently deutsch bank didnt mind. at least they didnt mind that much. according to this reporting, deutsch bank knew what he was doing in this buffalo bills scam and they were cool with it. in early 2014, mr. trump and his lawyer michael cohen approached executive rosemary -- about more potential loans. the owner of the buffalo bills had died and the nfl franchise was up for sale. mr. trump was interested and needed to show the nfl that he had the financi...

Broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week. thank you so much for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. its nice to have you with us. happy monday. we start tonight with ralph wilson. who? ralph wils on on grew up and detroit. if you know ralph wilson, you do not associate with the city of detroit. ralph wilson is famous for having founded the buffalo bills. players like jim kellyy and o.j. sim...

Engaged in something that michael cohen alleged was kbaba fraud so he could get money to make a bit for the buffalo bills nfl team. why would they go along with that knowing he was lying about his assets. thats kind of just the foam on top of the beer here. there is a lot more over nearly two decades, the leaders repeatedly saw red flags surrounding mr. trump. a promised loan relied on a forged signature. wild exaggerations of mr. trumps wealth and even a claim of an active god. however time aft...

>> that is correct. you need a pressure of making sure that you are on every single fundamental, at the same time you need to calm down,s just another game. those are things you tell yourself but when you get out there its different. >> surrounding the season has been a lot of discussion about the nfl. they put on the greatest show on earth you might say. the nfl experience here, super bowl 51, this will year is the first year we have heard discussion of nfl ratings going down. its something the...

Be people to play the game of football. >> you and i were talking about this earlier, i assess, the ultimate question. the ultimate question. would you let your children play football, anna you said i dont have to answer that i have daughters. that is a great answer and then he went on to tackle the question. i thought it was a great answer. >> if i had aside i would let him play. i was fortunate enough to do flag football for a little while and then once i got in to tackle football i got good c...

Jerseys, falcons jerseys, no matter what, football fans, they have an entire mock football field. >> wow. >> designing play and those kinds of things but then also fans, if you come to the super bowl its not just about going to the game, t about going to the party and also about the nfl experience, you can come try and throw field goals and pas. >> tomorrow youll be at the game; is that right? >> yeah, there you go. liz, we missed you, i can assure you its a lot warmer inside the studio than her...

. >> welcome back to houston. we have quite a a crowd growing here. discovery green downtown houston. a lot of new england patriots jerseys out there. that was supposed to get a cheer over 1,000,000 kids play in high school football in the united states. a lot of who are here today sharing the nfl expense. when you talk to them to have one dream, one goal. that is getting to this week. super bowl week. former nfl linebacker john davis did that. he has one to super bowls with the new england patr...