A Gateway into John Madden's Subconscious

If you happened to be watching the Chargers-Chiefs game last Sunday night, you heard one of the best entries in the canon of Madden Subconscious Ramblings to date.

This exchange happened in the 3rd quarter, after coming back from a commercial break by showing clips of workers making french fries in an In-N-Out Burger:

MADDEN - "You know what I'd hate to be, it's a potato."

MICHAELS - "Among other things ... pass to Kennison is incomplete, covered by Jammer. And you'd hate to be a potato because?"

MADDEN - "Well do you see what they do to that potata? I mean they take it, and they take all the skin off it and put it in the thing and, you know, slice it and then they put it in the thing and fry it ... you, you don't have a chance."

MICHAELS - "So in your next life you're not going to come back as a Mr. Potato-Head ..."

MADDEN - "I'm not. No, no, no."

MICHAELS - "Second down and 10."

MADDEN - "I'm gonna come back as a golden retriever."