"To play for Coach Bryant at Alabama, I passed up five figure offers to pitch in the Majors." Alabama origins were evident in those softly drawled words. "Coach Madden didn't care what I did with the rest of the time, as long as I showed up on time for the game and played hard. But it was Coach Bryant who made sure that by the time I got to Oakland, I showed up for the game and played hard.

'Your challenge is to teach those Huygens kids these things, because as Coach Madden once said '...when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football. Or'", he added "'The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage'".

"We could do with more beer," Griff remarked to a waiter.