One Yard at a Time: A Mystery
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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
He opens the door. He just said, my son. And it was like, oh, the tears start rolling again. You know, because I've never been referred to as somebody's son. Right after this ad. You're listening to DraftKings Network.
You know, one of the things that I have to do at the top is say, first, thank you for doing this. Sarah Spain, hello. Yeah. And the other thing is to do a thing that is cruel, which is to say, there is a twist in this story, which we're not going to give away because we're trying to be good at telling stories. But holy f*** it.
Yeah, that was my response when I first heard the story. It was pretty much holy f***.
And now that story is a book, which is why you are here with us today. It is coming out. It is called Runs in the Family. What's the metaphor that you choose to use to describe the process of birthing this?
Actually, I've been joking. I am throwing myself a book baby shower wherein I buy myself a push present. Because honestly, and though the labor maybe wasn't as painful as a human baby, but at the beginning I was like, to quote you earlier, holy shit, why did I choose to do this?
Yeah, I should say, I mean, to quote Tony Kornheiser about his own hands, these fingers don't really type anymore.
Well, I am worried about you after you did that interview where you said some of your articles, you actually changed the words in sentences so that the ends of them would line up in a paragraph so it looked nice. I was like, oh, he should never write a book.
Yeah, that whole thing about how you are not burdened by the neurosis of writing. I, for those not familiar, was making my paragraphs into like perfect symmetrical rectangles before I gave myself permission to write the next paragraph.
Have you seen someone for that?
You, it turns out. I'm seeing you for that. And you have not helped.
My bad.
Could you give just like the log line of this movie before the thing that we're dancing around?
Yeah, so the protagonist and co-author, his name's Dillon McCullough. He is currently the Raiders running backs coach.
Coach Carroll and all of the upper management has done a great job of, first of all, putting together a great staff, I believe, but really, really, really good staff. And then getting, you know, we got obviously OTAs going on right now and it's been, It's been very encouraging when we say it like that. It's been very encouraging.
He was most recently with Notre Dame, helping them to the national championship. Previous to that, famously with the Kansas City Chiefs, helped them to a Super Bowl.
Dylan, how special is it to be a part of this? I mean, it's unbelievable. You know, I know I made a statement a couple days ago just about the dream that you have as a youth football player in high school and college about getting to this level.
I didn't know Dillon before the Super Bowl with the Chiefs, in which it was like, oh, that's the guy who he's been coaching, you know, Damian Williams, where they are just like scampering all over the field.
Williams makes a cut and will roll into the end zone for the touchdown. No flags.
I wasn't familiar with him either, but a friend of mine in Chicago here played college football with him, which is how the story came to me. Sort of out of the blue and out of nowhere, he sat me down when we were grabbing drinks. I was like, oh, I got to tell you this crazy story. And within probably less than three minutes of the story, chills, almost in tears. And I was like, oh, we got to do something with this.
So I just need you to know that what we're gonna do with this today might seem like a story about a running backs coach at this point. A coach whose job, if you were not familiar, is basically devoted to teaching a running back how to shrug off and fight off all of the people who are desperately trying to stop them from moving forward as much as one single yard. But this story is about more than that. This story is also about a running back. A running back whose entire identity was a mystery. Because thanks to the laws in our country, as we will discuss, adoption as a concept way too often entails mystery.
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