Tom Bissell on the making of 'Madden NFL' - Grantland

Tom Bissell on the making of 'Madden NFL' - Grantland: Watching football in an immense black cavern on a television screen the size of a continent seems pretty decadent. Until, that is, you're reminded that having the luxury of spending a Sunday doing nothing but watching football is, incredibly, a relatively recent development in Coach's life. He certainly didn't get to watch football this way as a coach, and not really as a broadcaster. Incredible but true: Retirement has allowed Coach Madden, for maybe the first time in his adult life, to spend his Sundays being a football fan.