Here's Madden's take on the Steelers-Jaguars game this weekend:

“You’re going to play outside and you’re going to play on grass and grass doesn’t grow in January so you play on what’s left there.”

That was typical -- classic? -- Madden. Of course, he preceded it with this good story:

"We used to come in and talk about the field conditions, the frozen field and I remember one time they had the tent up over the field and it got deflated overnight and the field was ice and I went out there the next day before the game and they had a hose and they were melting the ice with a hose and then they were trying to water down the ice and of course all they were doing was making more ice and so some things just never change."