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01:05I remember I went to my first Pacers game.
01:08People were nuts.
01:09They're blue and gold and they're going crazy.
01:12They believe the Pacers are going to win it every year.
01:14And it didn't matter how good the Colts did.
01:16They were fired up for basketball.
01:20And Indiana is the national champion going away.
01:24When you talked about Indiana and Indianapolis, it was Bobby Knight usually first, Reggie Miller
01:30and the Pacers, and then who was going to win the Indy 500.
01:33And Colts kind of came last.
01:37Speaking of what I'm about to talk about, about to talk about, it's a slap in the face to
01:44me and everybody who supported or supports the old Baltimore Colts franchise.
01:52You got our stolen team and you don't even have the decency to root for them?
02:00Screw that.
02:01They should have given them back in 10 years.
02:05Should have given them back in the mid-90s.
02:10The Colts had been last in the Indiana sports hierarchy since they arrived in 1984.
02:17When they packed up the Mayflower and moved from Baltimore, Johnny Unitas and the 1970 Super
02:23Bowl champs were distant memories.
02:26Instead, they brought along more distant memories because Bob Irsay got rid of everybody that
02:32was good.
02:34Twice.
02:38Scumbag.
02:39That scumbag.
02:41Not the narrator.
02:42Bob Irsay.
02:43Robert.
02:45Irsay.
02:50Recent traditions of losing and poor draft choices.
02:56Twice in a decade, the organization used the number one overall pick on a quarterback.
03:03Baltimore selects quarterback, John Elway of Stanford.
03:10Elway orchestrated.
03:13Same with the top pick in 1990, Jeff George.
03:20In 1998, the Colts again held the first pick.
03:24And again, they targeted the quarterback.
03:27It would be either Washington's Ryan Leaf or Tennessee's Peyton Manning.
03:33I had a meeting with Jim Moore for it.
03:36I'm glad that the Chargers got that.
03:40They're so glad they got first instead of the Chargers.
03:45It's like a game behind them.
03:47So glad.
03:49And Bill Pulley.
03:51Both these guys are intimidating guys.
03:53And I am nervous.
03:54I mean, don't get me wrong.
03:55And I said, look, here's the deal.
03:58I'd actually probably like to come here to Indianapolis.
04:01But I will say, if you don't take me, I'm going to kick your butt for the next 15 years.
04:07And I said it.
04:08And I remember, you know, Pulley and kind of going, just kind of thinking, like, well, maybe we ought to
04:14take this kid over there.
04:15You know, I didn't say butt either.
04:17With the first pick of the draft, the Indianapolis Colts select Peyton Manning.
04:24Peyton Manning didn't need to look far for advice on playing for a losing organization.
04:30Who's your favorite football player there?
04:32My dad.
04:33Your dad's your favorite football player, too?
04:34Well, you're on the right track.
04:36You're going to be a football player when you grow up?
04:38Mm-hmm.
04:39Dad Archie played 10 seasons in New Orleans, never finishing with a winning record.
04:45He told me, obviously, you don't want to struggle, but be prepared that the team may struggle.
04:51And that certainly was the case with the Colts.
04:54I know he was real excited that I was going to play as a rookie.
04:57That experience really helped me going into my second season.
05:01Peyton proved to be a quick learner.
05:03After a 3-13 rookie season, the Colts improved to 13-3 in his second season.
05:13Former Buffalo Bills general manager, Bill Polian, had built a team much like the Cowboys teams that had dashed his
05:20Super Bowl dreams,
05:22high-profile superstars at the skill positions.
05:26But he had also built his team with the Unwanted.
05:31The 2006 team included 17 undrafted free agents.
05:37Among them, Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturday.
05:41Labeled too slow and too small coming out of North Carolina, Saturday went undrafted in 1998 and signed a free
05:48agent contract with Baltimore.
05:51I walked in the offensive line room and looked over and I just looked up at everybody, looking at how
05:56enormous all these men were and knew that wasn't going to be a good fit.
06:00So my career lasted about two weeks in Baltimore.
06:04And I called my wife and told her, got good news and bad news.
06:09Good news is I'm coming home.
06:11Bad news is I got cut.
06:12Bad news is I got a job with a...
06:15Oh my gosh.
06:17I want...
06:19The jury's still up on whether the Ravens came to regret cutting Jeff Saturday.
06:29Whoever cut him should have made a formal apology to the city of Baltimore in 2006
06:36after the coach came and beat them in there on home stadium.
06:44Electric Supply Company of North Carolina.
06:49A year later, Saturday signed with Indianapolis, where he developed a bond both on and off the field with Peyton
06:58Mack.
06:59Two guys who are very, very competitive.
07:01They know what they're doing.
07:02They support each other.
07:04And they know that they have to be on the same page for it to work.
07:08But at the same time, you've got two very smart guys who will have some classes at times.
07:16We're playing the Rams on Monday night.
07:18We got down there pretty close to the end zone.
07:24We threw the ball three times in a row.
07:27And incomplete and had to kick a field goal.
07:30We came off the field and we exchanged words of how we thought it should get done.
07:35And Jeff comes off and says, we need to be running the ball down there.
07:40And I just...
07:41I just snapped.
07:42Hey!
07:43Hey!
07:43Hey!
07:44Hey!
07:44We're calling the f***ing plays, all right?
07:46We gotta run the ball!
07:48We'll be past blocks block!
07:49We'll run the f***ing ball!
07:51Can we run it down there?
07:52We'll run it down there.
07:53Yeah, Jeff.
07:54We will.
07:55All right.
07:55We call the pass plays block!
07:57That was totally outmatched.
08:00You know, size, strength, you name it.
08:02No!
08:02He's calling plays!
08:05The only other time Peyton Manning got that mad was when one of his teammates said he didn't like chicken
08:12parm.
08:17Go sit down!
08:18He's calling plays!
08:19I love sit down!
08:20Go sit down!
08:20Hey!
08:20Go sit down!
08:21We're cool, but y'all come over here telling us how to find.
08:24He's doing it!
08:24Come on!
08:25He's yelling at us!
08:26You don't have to go yet.
08:27Come on!
08:27I think he felt good about his workout that week, so he felt good about himself.
08:33The minute it was done, it's done for both of us.
08:36The thing I like about it is you tell each other.
08:39You don't call a press conference and tell the media.
08:42I'm mic'd up, too.
08:43I'm mic'd up.
08:44You're mic'd up?
08:45Oh, yeah.
08:45Shut up.
08:46No, I am.
08:46I don't have it.
08:48It was better than Desperate Housewives.
08:52If Jeff's got a problem, he comes to me.
08:54If I've got a problem, I go to him.
08:56And it's not always going to be this pleasant conversation.
08:58All right, 20, go!
09:01It's that healthy conversation, I think, that kind of makes you respect him and hopefully
09:06makes him respect me even more.
09:09Regardless of what's said on the field or during a game, we all know it's for one goal.
09:15Thanks, man.
09:16Thanks.
09:16That's awesome.
09:17Good job.
09:17Good job.
09:23Behind Peyton Manning, the Colts had gone from league doormat to title contender in just one season.
09:31The thing was to get the Colts from being what I call a circled win on the schedule.
09:38When the schedule comes out and the coaches go, all right, we've got Indy here, that's
09:41a win.
09:42We play Green Bay, that's going to be tough.
09:44Oh, we've got Indy again, that's another win.
09:45You know, that's what the Colts were.
09:51But after winning a division title in 1999, the Colts made a quick exit in the playoffs.
09:59I remember watching Eddie George hit a big run on us and thinking to myself, you know,
10:04the game's kind of put out of touch.
10:08It was the beginning of many, many hurtful losses.
10:14Hand-off, Lamar wrapping up the ball with both arms.
10:16After yet another early playoff departure in 2000,
10:20And touchdown, Miami!
10:24And a 6-10 season the following year, the Colts fired Jim Mora.
10:31They set their sights on Tony Dungy, who had himself been fired for too many playoff failures.
10:40You know, I wasn't sure what was going to happen after I left the Buccaneers, and I got
10:45a call from Jim Irsay, and he left a message on my machine saying, hey, I want you to be
10:50our coach.
10:51I believe you can take us to the Super Bowl and call me back.
10:56The coach with a defensive reputation joined the team with the explosive offense.
11:02I felt like it was a perfect fit.
11:04I said, hey, here comes this defensive guy who's going to get our defense in the top 10.
11:09Our offense will stay the same.
11:12You know, the sky's the limit.
11:16We come into the first meeting, and everybody's kind of excited because we're there for the
11:21first time, and there's a lot of noise going on.
11:24And I just kind of stayed there and waited.
11:26You know, as you're kind of looking around and you're having your small conversations,
11:30you just kind of look, hey, here's the head man.
11:31And he hadn't said a word, but I'm sure he's looking at me talking.
11:36And finally, the noise dies down after a while.
11:38And I said, hey, I'm Tony Dungy.
11:40I'm your new coach.
11:42I just want to get your attention.
11:45This is the way I'm going to talk to you all the time, win or lose.
11:49I remember just being impressed at that first meeting.
11:51And he just sets it up in a way where you don't want to disappoint them.
11:55And I think as a result, guys lay out for that catch, or they make that one-handed tackle,
12:00or they get that extra block because they don't want to disappoint their head coach.
12:04Well, there was plenty of disappointment in Dungy's first season.
12:08The Colts made it back to the playoffs, but the result was the same as the two trips under Mora,
12:14a first-round exit, this one even uglier than the others.
12:20I think that put some doubt in people's minds.
12:24That was the first time I began to really take notice of the history and the reaction of people.
12:30Oh, it's just like it's always been.
12:31We've never won a playoff game.
12:34The last thing I told the team in the team meeting was, hey, we're going to get a lot of
12:38shots from the outside.
12:39We've got to stay together, make sure we support each other,
12:42and make sure we don't have any ammunition that comes from inside of us.
12:4941-0 against the Jets? Really, man?
12:55Dungy's message didn't reach every player.
12:58You know, all week before the Jets game, I'm like, you know, 18, you know, we're going to handle it.
13:02Me and you, we're going to win this game.
13:03And he's like, well, yeah, okay.
13:05I'm like, Peyton, come on, show some enthusiasm.
13:07You're the quarterback.
13:08We need to win this game.
13:09And I just don't see it from him.
13:11Some guys have it.
13:12Some guys don't, you know.
13:13And Coach Dungy, he's just a mild-mannered guy.
13:16He doesn't get too excited.
13:17He doesn't get too down.
13:19And I don't think that works either.
13:22Mike made those.
13:23I think being a soft Canadian who can't make important kicks doesn't work.
13:29And that's why as soon as they got rid of him and got the Patriot out of Vinatieri,
13:38they won.
13:40Comments at first, I'm very disappointed.
13:43When we got back together in the spring as a team, I talked about what happened,
13:47addressed it, and said, hey, this is what we've got to guard against.
13:50As we go down the line in the future, we're going to have disappointments,
13:54but we've really got to stay together.
13:56The team would have its fair share of opportunities to stay together.
14:00The next three years ended with more misery.
14:04Two straight playoff losses to New England.
14:08Then, after starting the 2005 season 13-0, the Colts were one and done for home loss to Pittsburgh.
14:24The GM that couldn't win the big one in Buffalo.
14:28The coach that couldn't win the big one in Tampa.
14:31And the quarterback that couldn't win the big one at any level.
14:35Together, they couldn't win the big one at Indianapolis.
14:42Look at the dejection on the Colts.
14:46We came back from the Pittsburgh loss.
14:48I felt awful.
14:50My son starts running around the house.
14:52He ran back up to me.
14:54He said, Daddy, Daddy, I heard you lost to the Steelers.
14:57And I said, yes, son.
14:58I said, we lost.
14:59And Daddy's pretty sad because when you lose at this time, it means my season's over.
15:05And I thought, you know, he's going to give me a, Dad, I love you.
15:08Thanks anyway.
15:08And he looked at me and said, woo-hoo!
15:10We can go play football in the basement.
15:14The Colts were hardly a team in need of perspective.
15:18Just weeks before the loss to Pittsburgh, Tony Dungy's 18-year-old son, James, took his own life.
15:26It's all well and good when everything's going good.
15:28But when tragedy strikes, it's how does a man handle it?
15:32And the way he did it, and he kept that same vision the whole time through everything.
15:39We're not talking about an injury.
15:41We're talking about the loss of life to a kid who's been on our sideline.
15:46It was a very difficult thing for us.
15:49You find out what the priorities in life really should be.
15:52I mean, is that third and five really that important?
15:55We tried to be there during that time for our coach, trying to be there to support him any way
16:00that we could.
16:00So did that have an effect on the rest of our season?
16:03I don't think it did.
16:04But it did have an effect on our team, just emotionally, because it's nothing to prepare you for something like
16:11that.
16:13In July of 2006, Dungy made the trip to training camp alone for the first time in his career.
16:21That was different.
16:23It really was.
16:24And, you know, my oldest son wasn't there, obviously.
16:27My middle son is now playing high school football, and so he's at his camp and not coming, and I'm
16:34going up by myself.
16:36The championship reaction on defense now.
16:39Championship reaction.
16:41I just thought about maybe this is going to be a completely different year for us all the way around.
16:50When the season began, things looked the same in the win column.
17:00How they were winning was definitely different.
17:08Intercepted by Doc.
17:10And the Colts should have this one nailed down.
17:13We weren't blowing teams out.
17:15Even though we were winning them all, we knew we were just on the cusp of losing a lot of
17:21those games.
17:22What a vaccine.
17:23Touchdown.
17:23They got in.
17:24Touchdown.
17:25And the Colts have won a dramatic come-from-behind victory.
17:37That's the way to finish.
17:38Nice ball, babies.
17:39Nice ball.
17:56The Colts became the first team ever to start 9-0 in back-to-back seasons.
18:02And they appeared to be steamrolling towards another number one seed.
18:06But Dungy saw dark clouds that were about to storm on a perfect season.
18:12We played Tennessee at home.
18:14And they ran for 185 yards or so.
18:17And they asked me how would I characterize the defense.
18:20And I said, well, we just played a little soft against the run.
18:24Which, that really took everybody.
18:26I mean, that's a media term.
18:27Not a head coach's term.
18:29Of course, the headline comes out, Dungy calls defense soft.
18:32And our players weren't, our defensive players weren't too happy about that.
18:41For a team branded as a perennial post-season loser, the regular season had become a formality.
18:49Their first loss of the year was greeted with a yawn.
18:54You're never happy losing.
18:55But I was not too mad when we lost.
18:58Because now that could put the focus back on just doing things the right way.
19:02Getting ourselves ready for the playoffs.
19:04We wouldn't have to hear about that undefeated talk in December and going into January.
19:09First time all year, the Colts have gone on fourth down.
19:14Incomplete.
19:16The Cowboys defense has held the Colts on down.
19:20I don't care.
19:21Get to the playoffs.
19:23Let's...
19:25Unless they figure a way to stop the run.
19:29I don't even want to look forward to the end of this year.
19:31This is not good.
19:32It is not a pretty picture.
19:33It has gotten absolutely out of control.
19:36Sure, it was becoming a little bit of a concern.
19:38Because you couldn't, you know, not realize it.
19:41Because it's all everybody was talking about.
19:43And then you do see the rankings who would last the league against the run.
19:48Tony Dungy had been brought to town to fix the Colts' defense.
19:53His roots trace back to the 70s Steelers.
19:55Where he had won a Super Bowl as part of one of the great defenses of all time.
20:01As a head coach, Tony had transformed the Buccaneers into a defensive power.
20:09Similar success had eluded him in Indianapolis.
20:14I was getting a little frustrated that we weren't getting off the field.
20:18Getting the ball back for our offense.
20:19And everybody's saying, no one's gone to a Super Bowl with the lowest ranked run defense.
20:24No one's gone to a Super Bowl with these type of stats.
20:26The Super Bowl was the last thing on anyone's mind after a week 14 loss to Jacksonville.
20:34The Colts were torched for 375 yards on the ground.
20:40I remember being on the...
20:42That's bad, but there's really no shame in getting gassed by Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew.
20:50They're very good, to say the least.
20:53Side line here in Jacksonville and watching them run wild.
20:57The Colts just can't tackle anybody.
20:59They cannot tackle anyone.
21:01Every time they would run the ball, getting 8, 10 yards a clip, it was a humiliating defeat.
21:07Any time a game like that happens, you have some doubt.
21:11The big thing was to not have the players fall into that state of questioning.
21:17And do we need to do something different?
21:20No, we don't need to do anything different.
21:23If anything, we're going to do less and not add more.
21:27It allowed every opponent to rush for over 100 yards.
21:31Their first round bye in the playoffs had disappeared.
21:36Houston was not a very good team.
21:38And the way they ran the ball on us, and we lost that game.
21:42Looks good. Game over.
21:45Houston beats them 27-24.
21:47The Colts have lost 4 straight on the road and have nobody to blame but themselves.
21:52That was a low moment for me.
21:55The Colts had finished 12-4.
21:58The AFC South champs for a fourth straight year.
22:01But unlike past seasons, they were no one's hot pick to be holding the Lombardi Trophy when the playoff just
22:09settled.
22:10I remember thinking, man, you got to go on the road, probably two of the three games.
22:15That's so tough.
22:17It definitely looked bleak.
22:24Smoked.
22:28Until that defense rises to the occasion and can slow some people down,
22:34the Indianapolis Colts are going to watch every single Super Bowl just like you and I are going to watch
22:38it from home.
22:41I usually don't use bulletin board material, but I was tempted before that game to put some things up there
22:48and play some videos from some of the experts, but I didn't.
22:51I just went in and said, hey, here's what people think.
22:54Here's the reality of the situation.
22:56Here's what we got to do.
22:57He said we probably won't hold the best back in the game to 17 yards.
23:02No running.
23:03Larry Johnson.
23:04A big day against the Colts' lowly run defense was a given.
23:09After the end of the game, we all came up after the Kansas City game, and Tony said,
23:13well, you know, we played a good football game.
23:15We got a lot of work ahead of us.
23:17And I remember one of the defensive players going, yeah, we didn't hold them to 17 yards,
23:22but we held them to 21.
23:23And everybody in the locker room went nuts.
23:28They had a chip on their shoulder.
23:30They'd been talked about.
23:31We'd been talked down to.
23:32We weren't good enough to do this.
23:34You knew they were pumped about what they had done, and that you knew they had the capability
23:39of continuing to do it.
23:40Anytime guys are fired up and excited like that, it's contagious for your entire football team.
23:45Well, if the Colts knew it, they were the only ones.
23:49How does the NFL's worst run defense suddenly become the steel curtain reincarnated?
23:56Bobby Sanders.
23:57He returned.
23:59There was no magic formula, no new things.
24:02It was just playing a little bit sharper than we've played the last few weeks.
24:06It's hard to explain what happened in the playoffs.
24:09To say that they went from the last elite to probably arguably the most dominant defensive
24:16team against the run in playoff history, I can't explain it.
24:21Safety Bob Sanders' return was a major boost to the defense.
24:25Since training camp, the third-year pro had suffered from various ailments.
24:30He had appeared in just four of the team's games.
24:34It was a tough year, and especially with the defense struggling, because he knew he could
24:38make a difference.
24:39What more can you ask for?
24:42You're going to do it, baby.
24:43The games he'd come back and play.
24:45He'd play well, and we'd play a little bit better.
24:47And then he's out for another stretch.
24:50It was very, very frustrating.
24:51And that was one of the things we were worried about in the playoffs.
24:54We knew we'd have him for the Kansas City game.
24:56We pointed towards that.
24:59But now what was going to happen the next week?
25:01Would he be able to go again?
25:02And we really weren't sure.
25:04The following week, Sanders and the defense would again be tested by the Ravens.
25:10But the Colts were facing more than those wearing Ravens uniforms.
25:15The fans hate us down there.
25:17They were upset about Ursae moving the team.
25:23The bus ride was brutal.
25:24A lot of middle fingers.
25:26A lot of body parts.
25:30You name it.
25:31Part of me was like, hey, I was eight years old when they moved.
25:34Get off of my back.
25:36The owner's sitting up there.
25:37It has nothing to do with me.
25:41He's actually right.
25:43That's not even the same owner.
25:44It's Jim Ursae.
25:46Bob Ursae passed 10 years earlier.
25:48Made a statement to our players.
25:50None of you guys were around when we left Baltimore.
25:52This isn't a history lesson.
25:54This is us just going in to win a game.
25:56We're not playing against the animosity of the town.
26:00We're not playing against memories.
26:01We're playing against the Baltimore Ravens.
26:05And Peyton Manning well understood that points would be at a premium against the vaunted Baltimore defense.
26:12Surprisingly, it was not film of the Ravens he would study to uncover the key to victory.
26:19In the first round of the playoffs, I watched on TV, I watched the Patriots versus the Jets.
26:24And the Jets had a package like the Ravens did.
26:29They had a multiple movement, guys just kind of moving all the rounds, safety's up, safety's back package.
26:36The Patriots were doing a lot of no-huddle stuff against the Jets, and it really worked.
26:42Caught by Frockett, he waltzes into the end zone.
26:45Touchdown!
26:47And I just kind of made a note that this has some real merit to it, this type of plan.
26:58It's a copycat league, this NFL.
27:02That little thing, that little quick count here, play, the quick play here, there, I think it made a difference
27:08and helped us somehow get a win in that game.
27:32Five field goals was all it took, because Ravens scored six points.
27:40Where was the offense, McNair, Jamal, Lewis, Ogden?
27:48Where was the offense?
27:53The Ravens, he did exactly what he was brought to.
27:58It hit the crossbar and went over!
28:00A 51-yard field goal!
28:02You know, getting at him, you thought about it all year,
28:06that you've got a clutch guy, and you're going to need him at some point,
28:11and now you get to a game where it's five field goals, and he did, in fact, make the difference.
28:16He just said, I kind of know what Bill Belichick feels like with money in the bank now.
28:21The following week, Dungy would get his chance to finally beat Bill Belichick.
28:27I wanted to play New England for us to get to the Super Bowl.
28:31You just felt we were going to have to beat those guys.
28:34I've never said I don't want to play the Patriots, but every time I play them, I don't sleep real
28:40well that week,
28:41because I know what kind of challenge it's going to be.
29:00The last time the Colts met New England in the playoffs,
29:04their high-octane offense was held to three points in what amounted to the most miserable day in Peyton Manning's
29:11career.
29:17One of those games that will always, you know, it's really hard to get over.
29:22You're one game away from your goal, from the Super Bowl,
29:25and we knew it was going to be tough up there on the road,
29:27but we felt like we should have beaten them in the regular season,
29:30and felt that we were good enough to go up there and win that game,
29:35and I really felt responsible for the reason that we didn't win that game.
29:40The Colts are not known for rah-rah speeches.
29:43But one veteran who'd been through six painful losses felt it was time to say something.
29:50Jeff Saturday gave us a great speech.
29:52It was the most nervous that I had been in my career.
29:56He cited him, so I guess it's not plagiarizing, but he kind of,
29:59he used the speech from that movie Miracle from the 1980 U.S. Olympic team.
30:05This is our time.
30:06I compared the Patriots to the Russians who had been undefeated and won all this thing,
30:12and how they're the greatest team, and I said, there's no doubt this is our time.
30:17And I just looked at the guy and said, understand it's our time.
30:19Be sick of time, be sick of time.
30:21That's right.
30:21We're just in.
30:23Tonight is our night.
30:24That's right, baby.
30:26Back to throw.
30:27Fires near side.
30:28It was worse than the other games.
30:31It started worse than the other Patriots courts playoff games.
30:37Left side.
30:39Asante Samuel putty.
30:4015, 10, 5.
30:42Touchdown, Asante Samuel.
30:45Now it's 21-3, and I'm going, this is supposed to be our time, though, right?
30:50We need this to be our time, and our time is running out.
30:54When it's 21-3, I'm thinking to myself, oh, my goodness.
30:58I thought it was our time.
30:59What is going on?
31:01Anybody who says they didn't have any doubt, they're lying, man.
31:04The only guy who may not have any doubt was Dungy.
31:08And I went over to the offensive guys on the sideline.
31:10I said, hey, it's still our time.
31:12I promise you we're going to win this game.
31:15He kept walking up and down and looking at me and telling every guy, it's still our time.
31:19He stayed with that line much longer than I would have stayed with him.
31:23I would have bailed out.
31:24And he wasn't just saying it, just to say, I mean, he truly believed.
31:28And you know what?
31:29He believes it, and we need to believe it.
31:38Touchdown, Dan Kukow.
31:42God, he got it.
31:43Two points.
31:44The first time they've made one all year.
31:47They give us to Dominic off the left side.
31:49Bernie or some of the ball.
31:52Touchdown.
31:52They say the Colts got it.
31:54The Patriots thought they had it.
31:55Jeff Saturday got it.
31:57You felt like, oh, man, now we're starting to get some breaks.
32:02The game that was once a blowout took on a seesaw nature.
32:06A shootout between the game's top two quarterbacks.
32:11They've nearly lost one of its gunslingers.
32:21He messed up his thumb right here.
32:23Complete this pass, and I got down the left sideline, and I throw, and boy, it comes right
32:27down on the helmet.
32:28I know right away, I said, this is not good.
32:31The fingernail had dipped back, so I'm sucking the blood off my hand.
32:37I try to throw a couple, and I'm going to just ugly, ugly-looking passes.
32:42I'm asking myself, what's fair to the team?
32:47You know, what if I get out there, and Reggie went wide open, and I won't hop it to him
32:52because
32:52of my thumb.
32:54That's selfish on my part.
32:56So, I tell Sorgie, I said, get ready.
33:00And I was like, wait a minute.
33:02Hold on, man.
33:03We're in the...
33:04He's not ready for prime time.
33:07He's not ready for the big lights.
33:11He's barely even seeing the little lights.
33:13We're in the championship game, we're tied, and I looked at it, and I was like, brother,
33:17you gotta go.
33:19Manning did go, and received the opportunity he had dreamed of.
33:24When you're a little kid growing up in the backyard, you know, the two-minute drill to go win
33:28the game and to go to the Super Bowl.
33:31With a career-changing chance in front of him, Manning took the advice of a backup tight
33:36end.
33:39Brian Fletcher is our tight end.
33:41I call him the suggestion box.
33:43He's always making suggestions.
33:45We can get a seam row.
33:46I'm about to pump him outside and go in play around the horn.
33:49He thinks he should be the offensive coordinator also.
33:53He's always got these brilliant ideas of plays.
33:56All of them, coincidentally, feature him as the primary receiver.
34:00He says, I can get this guy on a pump route.
34:02Louisville Crane, get open.
34:03You know, usually I'm just kind of like, hey, please, I don't have time for these suggestions.
34:07You know, if Marvin has a suggestion or Reggie has a suggestion, I'm going to listen.
34:10But Fletch, you know, you're not really, you haven't really earned your stripes quite yet.
34:14You're a second-year tight end.
34:15But I kind of go, you know what?
34:17It's actually not a bad idea.
34:19Throws up the middle.
34:20Oh.
34:21Incomplete.
34:21Boy, that was right in the arms of Brian Fletcher.
34:25He comes back to his credit as opposed to going, all right, I'm sorry.
34:29You know, I'm done making suggestions.
34:31He goes, I can beat him on corner routes.
34:33I'm going, are you kidding me?
34:35You're coming back with another idea?
34:36I mean, this is not exactly a practice or a preseason game.
34:40And so all of a sudden, I kind of dinged.
34:43I went, you know what?
34:44This actually is a really, really good idea.
34:48He's going to throw one down.
34:49Field intended for Brian Fletcher.
34:50He's got it.
34:51It gets out of bounds at the New England 37-yard line.
34:54So we huddle up again, call a little slant route to Reggie.
34:58He catches it, breaks a tackle.
35:00I'm going, man, this is good execution right here.
35:03And all of a sudden, I see that ball come up.
35:05In the air.
35:06And it just goes up in slow motion.
35:08I mean, Brewski's right there.
35:10Samuel's right there.
35:11There's like five Patriots right there.
35:13And it's just Reggie.
35:15I'm just going, this can't be.
35:17This can't be how we're going to lose this game right here.
35:20And somehow, I mean, they've got their arms all around it.
35:23He reaches up and grabs it and pulls it back in.
35:26It's just.
35:29The plan was to go back to Reggie Wayne.
35:34I said, Reggie, you'll be able to slant and go.
35:35He said, I can beat him.
35:36I promise you.
35:37I promise you I'll beat him.
35:38I said, all right.
35:39And Marvin, of all people, says, I think we need to run it.
35:45And everybody is like dumbfounded.
35:47Marvin Harrison wants the ball every play he can get it.
35:50So for him to say, let's run it.
35:53Of course, the offense flies.
35:55This is music to their ears.
35:56They're all going, yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:57Let's run it.
35:58And so I kind of said, you know what?
36:00It is a good idea.
36:01Let's run it and see what happens.
36:04The pass first, Colts ran the ball three straight times.
36:13Jeff Saturday helped finish off the drive by clearing a path for rookie Joseph Adai.
36:19Joseph right up the middle.
36:21He ran right up the middle and scores with a minute left.
36:26And that's on Vince Wilford that Saturday is blocking.
36:35I remember right then I was looking at the clock.
36:37I said, they still got, you know, two timeouts.
36:40And they got over a minute to go.
36:41And they got Tom Brady at quarterback.
36:44I mean, this is kind of where he's made his mark.
36:47I've never done this before ever in my life.
36:49I've never prayed during a game.
36:52I'm just kind of watching that scoreboard.
36:54And my hands just sort of kind of just came together on their own.
36:57So I'm in ultimate praying position.
36:59And I, you know, bent my head down.
37:01And I just said, you know, dear Lord, you know, if one time you does not let Tom make this
37:09comeback drive
37:09and allow us to win this game of the Super Bowl, that would be a good thing.
37:14Amen.
37:15You know, probably added in there that Tom's already got three Super Bowl rings
37:18and he probably doesn't really need another one at this point.
37:20So I've tried to make it a fair prayer.
37:24Either Peyton's prayer was answered or this really was the Colts time.
37:47The disappointments that you have, I think when you finally do win as we did,
37:52and those disappointments made it all that much sweeter.
37:56And I realized we had to climb the mountain.
37:59When the confetti stopped flying at the Patriots game, everybody hung out that night,
38:06went over to Peyton's house for a little while and enjoyed ourselves and celebrated.
38:10The next day it was business.
38:12And we knew our goal is still not accomplished.
38:21It was when my dad retired and Marino was just coming into the league.
38:24And so he took over.
38:26So my dad is my favorite player.
38:27Manning had been linked with Dan Marino since he began following him.
38:32His first career start came against the Dolphins and Marino.
38:35He broke Marino's single-season touchdown record in 2004.
38:40He has long been mentioned together with Marino as the best quarterbacks to never win a Super Bowl.
38:46And on the day, he hoped to end that comparison.
38:50He drove down Dan Marino Boulevard to Marino's old home.
38:55Every fan is on its feet here at Miami Dolphin Stadium in Miami, Florida.
39:00Super Bowl 41 about to commence.
39:05Tony Dungy was also hoping to blaze a new trail.
39:08He'd won a Super Bowl as a player in Pittsburgh.
39:11African-American coach to win a Super Bowl.
39:14Now was his chance to win one as a coach.
39:17But he was representing more than himself or his team or even his town.
39:21He and Bears coach Lovie Smith were the first African-American coaches to reach the Super Bowl.
39:28To become the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl,
39:33Dungy would have to overcome his game-opening decision to kick to the league's best returner.
39:39I wanted to kick off to Devin Hester and send a message that we weren't afraid of him.
39:45Minuteri on the approach, flatfall, popping here in Miami.
39:49I did stand up for the kickoff because I wanted to see those Cameron flashballs.
39:54I've always seen that. I wanted to be a part of that, watch that.
39:56So I'm kind of watching that. I don't even see the ball land in Hester's hands.
40:00And you just say, you kind of...
40:02I'm kind of watching, you know, I just want to see where he had 20, 30 yards, 40, 50, 50,
40:0750, 50, 50, I don't know.
40:08You know, he's gonna, he's saying he's gone.
40:11Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
40:24I don't see North in a Super Bowl in a season ending with the number six and had that kickoff
40:32return to a touchdown.
40:34I'd have two nickels.
40:58All of a sudden, he breaks in at 12 yards, just, you know, runs the wrong route.
41:07So Dallas runs the wrong route. We have two false starts. So we've done three things that we said we
41:13wouldn't do.
41:13So we couldn't make any mistakes, any mental mistakes. We can't have these penalties.
41:17We're done. We're three for three. And so I'm going, OK, we are really acting like we belong in this
41:24game.
41:27Intercepted. Intercepted by the Bears.
41:29Oh, this has been a rugged, rugged start for the Colts.
41:32You know, you got nerves, man. I mean, that's the reality of that game.
41:35It wasn't anything that we felt like we couldn't overcome.
41:40After proving wrong, those who said they couldn't stop the run or the Patriots, it was time to answer the
41:47call as a dome team playing in the elements.
41:51Rain continues to fall steady here in Miami. Has been all night.
41:55Rain. That was another thing that people didn't think we could do.
41:58They thought if weather is any kind of issue, the Colts are going to fold up.
42:02They can't win in the rain. They can't win in the cold.
42:05I'm the one that kept saying it's not going to rain.
42:08It just doesn't rain on Super Bowl Sunday. It doesn't.
42:10It hasn't rained in 40 of them. It's not going to rain.
42:13I don't care what these weathermen say.
42:15The dome team was actually prepared for bad weather.
42:19We had reports that it might rain in Baltimore, so Peyton, a couple days before the Baltimore game, was with
42:25Jeff Saturday and decided that they were going to use the wet ball.
42:30We did a wet ball drill, and I give Peyton all kinds of grief because I hate doing it.
42:35Because they dunked the balls in cold water the whole practice and then spray my hand down, and I have
42:42to snap the balls the whole time I get wet.
42:44But how it paid off when we got down to.
42:52Steps up. Steps up in the pocket. Rolls away. Throws one downfield. Reggie's there. Got it. That's funny.
42:58Touchdown. Reggie Wayne.
43:00And they did so with a punishing running game.
43:06Joseph and Dye and Dominic Rhodes both have been able to run the ball fairly well against the Bears' defense.
43:13The joy of watching our offensive line take games over.
43:17We've been called soft. They've been called you can't run the ball.
43:21They're a finesse offense.
43:23That brings me joy.
43:26The vindicated defense finished it off.
43:30Intercepted by Kelvin Haidt.
43:32Down the sideline.
43:33I watched our defense shut up all the critics, and I love that.
43:39Down to the 35. He made score.
43:4115, 10, 5. Touchdown, Kelvin Haidt.
43:47Yeah, duh.
43:49We're playing against Rex Roseman.
43:51But yes, they won the Super Bowl fair and square.
44:05The Colts had been seen as a team that could put up great regular season stats, but couldn't finish in
44:10the playoffs.
44:12I was really happy for us as a group to put that behind us.
44:16The Colts are world champions, world champions for the first time.
44:22It's all the chaos of so many people.
44:24Somehow Dungey and I find each other, and somehow it creates this path that he and I get together and
44:31have a moment together.
44:32You know, have a hug.
44:34We couldn't move.
44:36He and I just kind of stand there and just kind of hold each other, which felt real good.
44:40Just knowing what we had just done.
44:43My son and my daughter are running on the field with my wife, and my son gets there, and I'm
44:50thinking he's going to congratulate me for winning the Super Bowl.
44:52He goes, Daddy, look, they gave us a free Xbox game.
44:55And that's still all he cared about.
44:57So at the biggest moment in my career, the kid's perspective is still the one that brings you back home.
45:06And people say, was it joy?
45:08Was it relief?
45:10You know, I guess it was joy, mostly.
45:15It was some relief in the fact that I don't have to answer questions anymore.
45:19I think our 03 team, our 04 team, and our 05 team probably had, from a personnel standpoint and a
45:26health standpoint, better players.
45:28But this team was very resilient.
45:30They played together, and that was the thing that made us the best team.
45:35The Colts' Super Bowl victory did more than quench the championship thirst of an organization.
45:41It changed the entire sports culture of the town it calls home.
45:47When we came five years ago, it was a basketball town, and now it's definitely Colts' day all the way.
45:56I think you're always going to have Indiana basketball.
45:59It's a great, you know, from Hoosiers on down.
46:02But this is a football town now.
46:06You know, I guess I'm proud to say I'm a small part of it.
46:10Whoa!
46:11Big part, big part.
46:13Huge part.
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