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For broadcaster John Madden, the Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys game Thursday at Texas Stadium stirs memories of earlier times in the National Football Conference.
"It reminds me of the days when we had Packer-Cowboy, Packer-49er, 49er-Dallas, then you had all those eastern division rivalries, that was when it was a lot of fun," Madden said. "You had rivalry games with great players in it, led by great quarterbacks. You are talking about Brett Favre, Troy Aikman, Joe Montana, Phil Simms. Those kinds of guys. You just wish you had more of them. Now it's fewer and far between. Those were good times.
"But now to see it again, Tony Romo against a Brett Favre. Green Bay Packers against the Dallas Cowboys. That's NFL football. That's pretty doggone good."
However, Madden said the unavailability of the NFL Network telecast of the Packers-Cowboys game is not any doggone good.
"To have a game of any magnitude and people not be able to see it, that's not what the NFL is all about," Madden said. "We have always had games available. We have never gone to pay-per-view or any of those types of things. To go in that direction where some fans can't see it, I think that has to be fixed."
"It reminds me of the days when we had Packer-Cowboy, Packer-49er, 49er-Dallas, then you had all those eastern division rivalries, that was when it was a lot of fun," Madden said. "You had rivalry games with great players in it, led by great quarterbacks. You are talking about Brett Favre, Troy Aikman, Joe Montana, Phil Simms. Those kinds of guys. You just wish you had more of them. Now it's fewer and far between. Those were good times.
"But now to see it again, Tony Romo against a Brett Favre. Green Bay Packers against the Dallas Cowboys. That's NFL football. That's pretty doggone good."
However, Madden said the unavailability of the NFL Network telecast of the Packers-Cowboys game is not any doggone good.
"To have a game of any magnitude and people not be able to see it, that's not what the NFL is all about," Madden said. "We have always had games available. We have never gone to pay-per-view or any of those types of things. To go in that direction where some fans can't see it, I think that has to be fixed."