One Yard at a Time: A Mystery
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Under-recruited running back from a collapsed American city — with a single mom and a dream — wins the Super Bowl. Sounds familiar, right? But NFL coach Deland McCullough’s story, as told through his new book with Sarah Spain, has a twist all its own. (Thanks to a little help from Sir Mix-a-Lot.)
P.S. One correction, at the 17:50 mark: Deland McCullough’s senior year of college was 1995, not 2005.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.0 | He opens the door. He just said, my son, and it was like, oh, the tears start rolling again. |
| 0:46.0 | You know, because I've never been referred to as somebody's son. |
| 0:50.9 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:53.3 | You're listening to Draft King's Network. |
| 1:08.9 | You know, one of the things that I have to do at the top is say, first, thank you for doing this. |
| 1:14.1 | Sarah Spain, hello. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.7 | And the other thing is to do a thing that is cruel, which is to say, there's a twist in this story, which we're not going to give away because we're trying to be good at telling stories. |
| 1:26.5 | But holy f*** it. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, that's, that was my response when I first heard the story, was pretty much holy |
| 1:34.2 | and now that story is a book, which is why you were here with us today. It is coming out. |
| 1:39.5 | It is called runs in the family. What's the metaphor that you choose to use to describe the process of |
| 1:46.0 | of earthing this? Actually, I've been joking. I am throwing myself a book baby shower, |
| 1:52.4 | wherein I buy myself a push present. Because honestly, and though the labor maybe wasn't as |
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