 On ABC's final "Monday Night Football" telecast in 2005, Madden used a similar choice of words.When the Fox Network gained the rights to NFC games in 1994, CBS employees became free agents.Madden was the biggest star in football broadcasting, and Fox, ABC, and NBC made offers higher than the $2 million a year maximum for sportscaster salaries; NBC's owner General Electric offered to make Madden its "worldwide spokesman", and GE Rail would build for him a luxury train.