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Part 2: A Madden in Full

By Pat Toomay
Special to Page 2

Friday, November 8, 2002

Editor's Note: This is Part 2 of Pat Toomay's two-part look at former Raiders coach John Madden. In Part 1, Toomay explained what it was like to play for Madden as the Raiders defended during their first Super Bowl title in the 1977 season. The exhibition game in which Darryl Stingley was paralyzed was played in Oakland. It was one of those sloppy exhibitions played early in the preseason, when everyone's legs are dead and everyone's minds are numb. It was one of those games in which everythi ...

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