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Peyton's Places Season 5 Episode 7
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00:00An original series is presented by Elijah Craig, the father of bourbon.
00:12I traveled to Cleveland this season.
00:15Cleveland is typically enemy territory for a former Steeler,
00:19but James Harrison's meteoric rise from the practice squad to NFL All-Pro
00:24deserves an origin story.
00:26Cleveland is the birthplace of two really cool things.
00:31Superman was created in Cleveland, and so was the NFL's taxi squad,
00:35which later, of course, became the practice squad.
00:39And James Harrison just might be the greatest taxi squad player ever.
00:45Time to hit the road.
00:48And now, the ESPN original series, Hayden's Places, presented by Elijah Craig.
00:56I've been a real pain in my ass over the years.
01:07Likewise.
01:08But this has got to be the worst.
01:11It's a problem.
01:12You do know this is Brown's country.
01:14I grew up here.
01:15They don't like anything black and gold, let alone somebody that played for them.
01:19I think you're overreacting.
01:21Steeler's shot!
01:22Typical Cleveland fan, off-target.
01:27Are you going to tell me why I'm wearing this jersey and holding up this sign?
01:30Believe it or not, James, you owe your NFL career to something that happened right here in Cleveland.
01:35This is the birthplace of the practice squad.
01:37It's one of the things that makes the NFL great.
01:39Basketball doesn't have one.
01:41Baseball doesn't have one.
01:42It all started right here in Cleveland.
01:44The practice squad started in Cleveland.
01:45Actually, it all started with a taxi!
01:53Man, this thing is older than your dad.
01:55It's perfect.
01:57Where do you need to go?
01:58An important part of NFL history, 1946.
02:02How much will 500 bucks give me?
02:08It's half our budget.
02:10Half?
02:11Our whole budget.
02:12I'm Peyton Manning, and I love football.
02:19Don't worry.
02:19Peyton, who's your favorite football player?
02:21My dad.
02:22I'm on a quest to bring NFL history to life.
02:25Josh!
02:26Wow, that was pretty reckless.
02:27So join me for another adventure.
02:30Peyton!
02:30Dream come true, man.
02:31Oh, awesome, man.
02:31This is right up there.
02:33You kidding me?
02:34Peyton's place.
02:35This is great.
02:35Today, NFL rosters max out at 53 players, but a team can carry an extra 17 on their practice
02:49squad.
02:50These players don't get to play on Sundays, just practice.
02:54What do you think Jake DeLome is feeling right now?
02:57You haven't played a down in the NFL, and you're about to get your shot.
03:02But if they ball out, or a starter gets hurt, they just might find themselves starring in
03:08their own underdog story.
03:10DeLome's going to throw a D for Kennison.
03:12Kennison has it!
03:13Inside the 10, inside the 5, touchdown, New Orleans!
03:17Jake DeLome!
03:18The Broncos' all-time leading receiver, Rod Smith, started out on the practice squad.
03:23Rod Smith's got it!
03:25Here we go!
03:26So did Matt Hasselbeck.
03:27Throws to the right side, got a man wide open!
03:29Touchdown, Seahawks!
03:30Arian Foster.
03:32Touchdown, Arian Foster!
03:34Rock and roll!
03:36Jason Peters.
03:37Jason Peters creating some space.
03:40And Adam Thielen.
03:41Throws to the end zone!
03:42Touchdown!
03:45And then there is James Harrison.
03:47Harrison with the sack, which will be an all-time steal of record.
03:50Who went from undrafted zero to Super Bowl hero and Defensive Player of the Year.
03:58A free agent bargain may be one of the best in the history of the NFL.
04:02He couldn't have done it without the practice squad.
04:05It all started after World War II with the Browns' first owner, Mickey McBride, and his fleet of taxis.
04:14What does this taxi cab have to do with the practice squad in my career?
04:19All right, the story goes something like this.
04:211946, Paul Brown becomes head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
04:26Luke Groza has the question, and Coach Paul has the answer.
04:30Back then, roster limits, 33 players.
04:34Paul Brown has more than just 33 good football players, so he doesn't want to lose them to his opponents in competition.
04:41So what'd he do?
04:42He convinces Mickey McBride to hire them as taxi drivers for his taxi company, the Yellow Cab Company of Cleveland.
04:51So Browns were driving Yellow Cabs.
04:54Would it have been less weird if they were Brown cabs?
04:56Is that even legal?
04:58Let's just say they were as legal as your most expensive hits.
05:01Steelers linebacker James Harrison fined $75,000 for that hit to the head-neck area.
05:08Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquat.
05:10I'd like to thank Roger Goodell for being my biggest adversary.
05:15Amazingly, the Browns taxi shifts never conflicted with a practice or a game.
05:21Oddly convenient.
05:22Not suspicious at all, huh?
05:23I don't think so.
05:30Is that Bob Golden?
05:32Cleveland royalty.
05:35Let's see if he needs a ride.
05:36Hey, Bob, you're right.
05:42James Harrison and Peyton Manning, a Steeler and a Bronco.
05:47I'd rather be run over.
05:49Don't threaten us with a good time.
05:50Yeah, we can accommodate that.
05:52Bob Golick is a Cleveland legend.
05:59All-American defensive tackle from Notre Dame.
06:0314 seasons in the NFL.
06:06And two seasons with Coach Hayden Fox on ABC.
06:09I had a hell of a ride, Coach.
06:12I was a pro football player.
06:13I've got a Super Bowl ring.
06:16I've showered with some of the finest athletes in the world.
06:21So what is this?
06:22Taxi cab confessions NFL edition?
06:25No, it's actually a backdoor pilot for ESPN.
06:29It's called No Cash Cab.
06:31Peyton's been telling me about Paul Brown and the taxi squad.
06:34So where to, Bob?
06:36Well, I was supposed to go to a Cleveland Brown reunion, but forget that.
06:39You guys need to go to League Park.
06:41League Park.
06:43Hmm.
06:43Okay.
06:45Turns out the assembly point for the NFL's first taxi squad was less than three miles from
06:53downtown Cleveland at one of America's most historic playing fields.
06:58Is this it?
06:59This is League Park.
07:01This is the oldest home field in Cleveland.
07:06Shields Joe Jackson, Jim Thorpe, Canton Bulldogs all played here.
07:12In the 40s and 50s, Paul Brown would have his practices here exactly at one o'clock.
07:17Why one?
07:18Well, he was the first coach to figure out that if you're playing a game at one o'clock,
07:22you should practice at one o'clock.
07:24The 33 roster players would be there, and a fleet of taxi cabs would pull up on the field.
07:29And let me guess, all those cab drivers would join the practice?
07:33Exactly.
07:38You know, Paul Brown's Browns, 10 championships in 11 seasons.
07:43Amazing.
07:44The mighty Cleveland Browns defending world champions comes charging onto the field.
07:47And the capable mentor who put them on top, Coach Paul Brown.
07:51You know, they said he was a genius, but it's easy to be a genius when you've got the best players.
07:56And he had the better player because of the taxi squad.
08:01Exactly.
08:02In a sensational play that catches the Ram defense mapping,
08:05Otto Graham passes it up Jones, who takes it for a Cleveland tally.
08:09Every team wanted to copy him, and every team got a taxi squad.
08:13Graham carries again on the quarterback sneak, and he's into the end zone.
08:16All right, James.
08:19You ready to hit the practice field?
08:22You mean the taxi field?
08:23Hey, before you do that, can I... I gotta go some more.
08:26Oh, Bob, you can call an Uber.
08:29I'm off the clock.
08:31Sorry.
08:31Thanks a lot.
08:33See ya.
08:37See ya, Bob.
08:39Better to be left behind than ran over.
08:41Just like the first taxi squad, James and I parked our cab right on the edge of the field.
09:03So how did the taxi squad become the practice squad?
09:06The taxi squad became legalized in the 60s.
09:09In the 70s, when the commissioner, Pete Rozelle, wanted to make the league more businesslike,
09:14they changed the name to the practice squad.
09:17Since then, the practice squad has given a lot of great players a shot, players like you.
09:22And I got to do it all without driving strangers to run.
09:24Well, you see number 16 there, James Harrison.
09:28In his final game at Kent State, James sacked a quarterback named Ben Roethlisberger five times.
09:34The funny thing is that he actually reminds me, and he's like,
09:39you know, the only reason you're here is because of me.
09:41Because he let you sack him five times.
09:43Right, he let me sack him five times.
09:44Such a generous quarterback.
09:45It didn't help.
09:47James went undrafted.
09:49The only place he could get paid to play football was in Europe.
09:53James Harrison is all over the place again.
09:56His only place in the NFL was on the practice squad.
10:00Two years on the practice squad.
10:02Did you think you'd make the active roster?
10:03My first two years, I couldn't grasp the defense.
10:07That's really what it came down to.
10:09And I was too stubborn and bullheaded to actually ask for help.
10:12No, that doesn't sound like you.
10:14Yeah.
10:14It's a little thing.
10:15It's about being a consistent football team.
10:18And to do that, we've got to have consistent football players.
10:20What do you think you learned on the taxi squad that made you into such a great player?
10:24I got to play against the ones.
10:25That's the biggest thing.
10:26Going against the starters every day in practice.
10:27You get to go against the starters and give them everything that you got.
10:30But that's where I realized, you know what, I could play in this league.
10:34Good job, James.
10:35Third down now.
10:36Let's go.
10:36The Steelers cut James three times.
10:43They saw him as a special teams player at best.
10:47Then, in 2004, before a game against the Browns, this happened.
10:53Both Joey Porter and William Green have been ejected.
10:57Without Joey Porter, the Steelers had to play James.
11:02James Harrison.
11:03Here's the kid from Kent State who replaced Joey Porter.
11:07Harrison has his first NFL sack.
11:10He was a game wrecker from game one.
11:16The Steelers have a football.
11:17James Harrison.
11:18We're into the end zone.
11:19James Harrison, first-year man from Kent State with the biggest play of his football career.
11:24He didn't get cut no more.
11:25Good job, man.
11:27He didn't get cut no more.
11:28You grew up a Cleveland Browns fan.
11:30You had a particular game against the Browns where you kind of welcomed a Browns fan to the game.
11:38There's a Browns fan on the field.
11:40And he's told to get off the field.
11:42And now James Harrison.
11:43It was just a quick pickup, laying down.
11:49I was going to put his arm behind his back, but I didn't want to hurt him.
11:51Believe it or not, James insists his only concern was player safety.
11:58When he ran out on the field, I believe our running back was Ryan Haines, and he kind of ran away from me.
12:03So I was just trying to go get back some of our street cred.
12:05There's a fan on the field.
12:07Plus, I wanted to make sure my teammates were safe.
12:09Yeah, you don't know.
12:11He just got dumped.
12:14James Harrison.
12:15It's never pretty when those things end.
12:18When Eli was a kid, I used to put both my knees on his arms and just pound into his chest, name 28 teams in the NFL.
12:25I mean, it looked like you had the guy held down until the authorities got there.
12:29James Harrison slammed him big time.
12:32Oh, boy.
12:32So you're on the practice squad.
12:36You make the active roster, and then you make the greatest defensive play in Super Bowl history, the immaculate interception.
12:4518 seconds left of the second quarter here in Super Bowl XLIII.
12:51Warner throws the pass.
12:52It's going to be picked up.
12:54James Harrison has it.
12:56He's running up the sideline.
12:5725-30.
12:58Still on his feet at the 45 and down.
13:00No, he's still on his feet.
13:04Here comes Harrison jumping over people to the 20, the 15, the 10, the 5, and that's a touchdown for Pittsburgh.
13:12You were supposed to blitz, weren't you?
13:14Yeah, I was supposed to blitz.
13:15So we're just getting there like a—
13:16It's not like you not to follow orders.
13:17Like, go kill the quarterback.
13:19Dick LeBeau.
13:22We're just getting there like a step too late.
13:27I know I got to get this tackle to step at me.
13:30So that Timmons can get through free on the inside.
13:34You try to occupy the tackle to free up one of your teammates.
13:38I do the step.
13:39Tackle steps at me.
13:41Timmons gets through.
13:41I step back out.
13:43I'm going to play for the slant end.
13:44That's the nearest thing to me that I could affect.
13:46And Kurt is looking at me like I'm looking at you.
13:49And I'm like, oh, he's not about to throw the ball.
13:51And then I see his arm go up.
13:53I'm like, oh, he's about to throw the ball.
13:56By the time I look up, it's just a sea of red jerseys everywhere.
14:01And I'm like, oh, I ain't going to make it.
14:03Head down.
14:04No, he's still on his feet.
14:06Woodley ends up getting the running back.
14:08And when he gets the running back, I have to jump over him.
14:10Harrison jumping over people.
14:12James Harrison runs like James Brown.
14:14So by that time, I'm like, yo, I got to make it.
14:17Time has to be off the clock.
14:18There's no way.
14:20And then all of a sudden, it's like the Carl Lewis alignment out here.
14:23Like, they're running 100 yards down the field.
14:26He dives in my legs.
14:27I just kicked as high as I can.
14:29And out of nowhere, I feel a hand hit me on the chest.
14:32Fitzgerald.
14:33Here's Fitzgerald.
14:35He's coming in.
14:36I was carrying him like a loaf of bread by then.
14:38If he had better aim, he could have been a hero.
14:41But he couldn't stop all this momentum.
14:43It's like a moving train.
14:44Not possible.
14:45We're rolling to the end zone.
14:46It's the longest play in Super Bowl history.
14:49It's a 100-yard interception return.
14:53Wow.
14:54And that's why James Harrison was named the Defensive Player of the Year.
15:03We're going.
15:05Sheer willpower put James in the record books.
15:08And another one.
15:09Go.
15:10He couldn't have made history without Paul Brown's invention.
15:13Really appreciate the history lesson.
15:16You're welcome.
15:16But this is Peyton's Places.
15:18Yes.
15:18And it's really only one way to honor Paul Brown's taxi squad.
15:22That's right.
15:22We've got to do a shift.
15:24Do a shift.
15:25Wait a minute.
15:26I mean, we did pick up Bob Golick.
15:27No.
15:28A real shift.
15:30Light the torch.
15:31Light the torch?
15:32You know taxi lingo?
15:34That actually suits you well.
15:50Do you like it?
15:50I think I finally found my vibe.
16:00Do you even know how to be a 1946 cab driver?
16:04Yeah, I think so.
16:05I think I just drive around and talk about how glad I am World War II is over.
16:10Watch this.
16:12Dispatch, this is Cab 18.
16:14We're on Euclid Avenue.
16:15Milton, is that you?
16:17I've been waiting 40 years to hear your voice again.
16:21Ooh, scratch that idea.
16:30All my knowledge of taxi cabs was from the Broncos playbook.
16:34Z, taxi left.
16:35Ice cream.
16:36Hey, turn to right.
16:37All right, turn to right.
16:39No, no, no, no, no, no.
16:40Left.
16:40Whoa, whoa, whoa.
16:41Okay, turn to left.
16:42No, no, no, no.
16:43Hold on, hold on.
16:43It's right.
16:44It's right.
16:44What?
16:45And let's just say navigation wasn't one of James' strong suits.
16:50Keep going.
16:51I can't keep going.
16:52We're supposed to go straight.
16:53There's a lake right in front of us, James.
16:55Wow.
16:56I guess this is the mistake by the lake.
16:58Do you know where you're going?
16:59Yeah, yeah, I know where I'm going.
17:00I told you I'm from around here.
17:01I grew up around here.
17:01I'm not really seeing that.
17:02But unlike Paul Brown's taxi squatters, we were determined to pick up real fares.
17:09And thanks to that reunion Bob Golick told us about, there were more Browns on Cleveland
17:14sidewalks and street vendors.
17:16Look, I think we got one.
17:19Is that Josh Cripps, your old college teammate?
17:23Taxi.
17:25James and Peyton Manning?
17:28What's good, baby?
17:37Where you want to go?
17:38I'm late for a Browns reunion.
17:39You got it.
17:40Let's go.
17:47What is this?
17:47Taxi cab confessions?
17:49NFL edition?
17:50No.
17:51Why should everybody keep asking this thing?
17:53Oh, yeah, yeah.
17:54James, you got them fines you got to pay off from Roger Goodell.
17:56Throwing down, wrestling style, and a penalty marker.
18:01Nah, we're just experiencing what it was like to be on Paul Brown's taxi squad.
18:05I see.
18:06All right, you guys were college teammates.
18:08What was it like when you played against each other in the NFL?
18:10He took a hit.
18:13It was a hit by his college teammate at Kent State, James Harrison.
18:17Listen, that's my homeboy.
18:18I'm trying to do him worse than anybody else so I can talk to him in the offseason.
18:22You got to be able to talk trash, you know?
18:25So, yeah, my wife is still not cool with me being friends with him to this day.
18:30You scared?
18:31You thought you was going to get hit?
18:35After dropping off Josh, we ran into a pack of wild dogs.
18:40Cleveland's most famous fans, the Dog Pound.
18:44How you doing, man?
18:45Good to meet you.
18:47Good to meet you, too.
18:48And the man who named them, Hanford Dixon.
18:58Hanford, didn't you and Frank Minifield invent the Dog Pound?
19:01Yes, we did, Peyton.
19:03The pulse of the dog defense was the best set of corners in the game.
19:07All pros Frank Minifield and Hanford Dixon.
19:10It was originally meant for the defensive line.
19:14Frank and I, we started barking at those guys and we told them,
19:16when we bark at you, just lay it back like a dog chase a cat and go get the quarterback.
19:22We started barking and before we know it, everybody was the dogs.
19:26Everybody was barking.
19:27And that's the Dog Pound in Cleveland Stadium, where they're really going to make it tough on Elway.
19:37They're barking in there.
19:38They're barking.
19:39They are hollering down there.
19:40So that's how that whole dog thing started.
19:45I remember one time Elway and the Broncos were here.
19:48They had to switch sides because the Dog Pound was too loud.
19:52Now the Dog Pound throwing things out of the end zone seats.
19:57And Elway is complaining.
20:00When you look at the tape, you can see the Dog Pound threw John Elway's footwork out of rhythm.
20:06Elway out of his own end zone and it's almost intercepted.
20:09They were throwing Dog Pound and he had to switch sides.
20:13Trying to bring, we're going to change the ends of the field.
20:17Come down.
20:18John Elway asked for it and he received it.
20:21Now what happens if they get the first down?
20:22Do they go back to the other way again?
20:24We have talked to the defensive captain.
20:27We have talked to help control the noise.
20:29Thanks for your cooperation.
20:32That's why we say beware of the dogs when you come in Cleveland Brown Stadium.
20:38Our last pickup was a quarterback I loved watching as a kid.
20:43This is a classic.
20:45Cleveland legend Bernie Kosar.
20:47You're telling me football players are driving cabs?
20:54What kind of money were they making?
20:56Look, it all depended on the zone, Bernie.
20:58Cover two?
20:59Cover three?
20:59No, no, no, no.
21:00The taxi zone.
21:02When Bernie was in the zone, there was no throw he couldn't make.
21:06Kosar in trouble.
21:08Throws on the run.
21:09Touchdown Brown!
21:10What a throw!
21:11He led Cleveland to three AFC Championship games in the 80s.
21:16Kosar being flinched.
21:17Firing over the middle.
21:18Langhorne has it for a touchdown!
21:20But he always seemed to hit a roadblock.
21:23Whether it was John Elway...
21:25Uh-oh.
21:26Looks like the intersection's blocked.
21:28Or this Volkswagen van.
21:30Peyton, I'm going to be late.
21:34I got this.
21:37He's got this.
21:41Put it in neutral.
21:43Okay.
21:46Can he actually do this?
21:48I mean, why do you think we're a two-man team, Bernie?
21:51I drive, James pushes.
21:53Let's go.
22:00Explain to me again by nobody drafted him?
22:06I can't.
22:08But I know this much.
22:10I'd tip more than 20% if I were you.
22:12Absolutely.
22:20You can learn a lot driving a taxi.
22:23You're going to make a U-turn on the bridge?
22:26Oh, no.
22:26Some players aren't road-ready when they get to the NFL.
22:32But given a chance to practice...
22:35James Harrison has another shot!
22:37...they can become almost perfect.
22:40Or, like James, an all-time great.
22:43Intercepted!
22:44James Harrison having a game of his life!
22:46He is looking like Superman out there.
22:50James, it's been a lot of fun.
22:52I appreciate you being a part of it.
22:53I think our shift is over.
22:54I think we're in some overtime pay.
22:57I agree.
22:57Look, so much of what the NFL is today was created by Paul Brown.
23:01None got more gas mileage, though, than the taxi squad.
23:04Let's go taxi squad on three.
23:05Here we go.
23:06One, two, three.
23:08Taxi squad!
23:09I'm just glad Mickey McBride didn't own a funeral home.
23:16I mean, Bob, you don't have to wear that helmet.
23:17Yeah, you look ridiculous, man.
23:19Hey, have you seen the way he drives?
23:21I hope these dogs are cab-broken, James.
23:23Aren't those cones that stop dogs from licking themselves?
23:26Come on, James.
23:27It's a Disney show, all right?
23:28Keep that to yourself.
23:29James, playing against me, obviously, you were worried about, like, quarterback draw.
23:33Just the dual threat, that threw you off a little bit.
23:36Probably slowed down the pass rush.
23:37Who are we talking about?
23:38We talking about you?
23:39Yeah.
23:39Just kind of give me the mindset when you're going against me.
23:41Rush however you want to.
23:43Do not hold any lane integrity.
23:45Really?
23:46Oh, yes.
23:46He is not going to beat anybody around the corner.
23:49Like, mm-mm.
23:50Okay.
23:52Don't expect to ride back in this taxi.
23:54Wow.
23:55I can't believe I'm riding with you here in Cleveland.
23:58Two words that don't go together.
24:01Broncos and drive.
24:02Get it?
24:03Where to?
24:04Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
24:10All right.
24:10I got it.
24:11I got it.
24:11I got it.
24:12I got it.
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