Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Bill Belichick on the History of the Scout Team

As a creative workaround, Coach [Paul] Brown asked the Browns' owner, Arthur McBride, to hire the development guys as employees at the taxi cab company he owned so they wouldn't be in violation of any roster requirements. (Hence the original name for the group - "the taxi squad.")

From The Art of Winning by Bill Belichick. I'm a sucker for language, history, and football and this nugget has all three. Another great example of asking forgiveness from the NFL instead of asking permission.

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