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NFL to honor John Madden on Thanksgiving

As a part of tomorrow’s Thanksgiving tripleheader, the National Football League will be honoring the late John Madden, who may be more synonymous with Thanksgiving football than any other individual.

Each of the three networks involved with broadcasting tomorrow’s games (CBS, FOX, and NBC) will be creating their own tribute segments to the Hall of Famer, and those segments will be shown throughout the game. There will also be a recording of Madden discussion the relationship between Thanksgiving and football that will serve as the lead-in to each of the three Thanksgiving day games.

There will also be a special “John Madden Thanksgiving” logo painted at the 25-yard lines of each host stadium, including U.