Who's that guy stuck to the Maddencruiser bumper?
A guy from Forest Hill, Md., was the winner in the NBCSports.com contest that asked people to guess how long it would take John Madden's personal bus to travel from Indianapolis to Dallas, where he was going from the NFL Thursday night opener to the first Sunday night telecast ealier this month.
Madden's cruiser made it in 14 hours, 17 minutes and 51 seconds.
The correct guess: 14 hours, 17 minutes, 52 seconds.
If it was the “Price Is Right,” he’d lose. But in this game, he wins two tickets to a future Sunday Night game, with airfare and hotel, and a tour of the Maddencruiser.
"That’s amazing," Madden said Thursday of the winning guess. "I'm the worst guy at guessing things like that. Al (Michaels) can win on something like that. He will tell me within a couple of minutes."
What would Madden's guess have been?
"I just ask (the driver) to give me a ballpark figure. I never want to put pressure on him to speed up. They told me it would be 3 or 4 in the afternoon (on Friday) and that's all I cared about."
==A link to a 2002 New York Times story on Madden comparing his bus rides to "Travels With Charlie."