Junod, etc.

[swingline]

Tom remains one of our best, of course. I didn't know where to post the following story, so I started this thread because it moved me so much. If you need a good cry, read it.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46012436/football-forever-young-college-high-school-nfl
Carry on, friends.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Junod memoir just released:

Lies His Father Told Him

 

[SixToe]

The NYT piece about the book, his father and him is wild. Lot to unpack, as they say.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I just finished Junod's memoir last night.

I saw a lot of my father in Junod's father. Dad was never faithful to any of his three wives. I've got a half brother out there I've seen maybe 10 times and he's got kids that I've never met. He didn't even come to Dad's funeral. When my brother did 23 and Me, he said we should be prepared for more half siblings to surface. None did.

At least three times, that book made me cry. Or, more accurately, reminded me of something in my own life that made me cry.