(Then-Raider coach John) Madden asks the referees if it's real! ... They say get your big butt out of here. He does!

John Madden is under contract for the 2005-2006 season and we'll see where it goes from there. But let's not forget that Madden is a part of the ESPN family with Monday Night Football. ... It's possible we'll continue working with John longer term.

John Madden is under contract for the 2005-2006 season and we'll see where it goes from there, ... But let's not forget that Madden is a part of the ESPN family with Monday Night Football. ... It's possible we'll continue working with John longer term.

This was more physical, there were more battles. The referees have been doing what they say they are going to do. It's not up to them [to adjust], it's up to us.

Look, I'm not going to buy into it. I'm going to talk to [referees' coach] Robert Finch and I'll leave it there.

I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the face of a 19th-century painting, so we had to do a grotesque painting. It was done in four days.