Dillon McCullough

But not to play football, I was going to enlist in the Navy.

But then that hard work opened up a talent that showed my senior year on a really, really, really high level.

And I was able to get, you know, some offers.

Me and my buddies, we look out the window, like, ah, everybody's playing.

I look at this car, it was a candy apple red and gold Mercedes.

You know, something that we had never seen, something like that before.

And it was like a movie turned around, like, turned around slow, and the camera was on him or whatever.

And he looked at me, and he said, hey, I'm Sherman Smith, running back coach for Miami University.

I'm watching one of the backup running backs.

And he is just...

doing outstanding, and it's against the backups, but I'm just sitting here and like a tear went down my face, and I said, man, I'm a running back.

I'm a running back.

I'm a running back.

And then with two minutes left in our final preseason game of that, you know, my rookie year, my knee get blown out and several, like all the ligaments get blown up.

And then I just stopped playing because I kept on saying, people say, I can't do this.

It was always for me proving people wrong, proving people wrong.

And nobody would think I can come back after three knee surgeries, and I did.

But at that point, I said, you know what?

It's time for me to transition to something different.

As I'm sure everyone's aware, today we'll be holding a discussion about a bill intended to give adoptees access to their original birth records here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.