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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - One Yard at a Time: A Mystery

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.631.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 47 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. • Read "Runs in the Family": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Runs-in-the-Family/Sarah-Spain/9781668036280 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.7

He opens the door. He just said, my son, and it was like, oh, the tears start rolling again.

0:13.7

You know, because I've never been referred to as somebody's son.

0:18.6

Right after this ad.

0:21.0

You're listening to Draft King's Network.

0:36.5

You know, one of the things that I have to do at the top is say, first, thank you for doing this.

0:41.7

Sarah Spain, hello.

0:42.5

Yeah.

0:43.3

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, but holy f*** it.

0:58.1

Yeah, that was my response when I first heard the story. It was pretty much holy

1:01.8

shit. And now that story is a book, which is why you were here with us today. It is coming out.

1:07.2

It is called Runs in the Family. What's the metaphor that you choose to use to describe the process of

1:13.6

of birthing this?

1:15.6

Actually, I've been joking. I am throwing myself a book baby shower wherein I buy myself a push present.

1:21.6

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?

1:32.3

Yeah, I should say, I mean, to quote Tony Kornheiser, about his own hands, these fingers

1:38.0

don't really type anymore.

1:39.5

Well, I am worried about you after you did that interview where you said some of your articles,

1:45.3

you actually changed the words in sentences so that the ends of them would line up in a paragraph.

1:51.0

So it looked nice.

1:52.0

I was like, oh, he should never write a book.

1:53.8

Yeah, that whole thing about how you are not burdened by the neurosis of writing,

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