The phone rang in a small office in a small town along the Connecticut River, a town bisected by the Appalachian Trail. It was 35 degrees in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Monday, a snowball’s throw from the Vermont border. The voice at the other end of the line was familiar.
“It’s kind of like planets getting back in alignment,” Dave Shula said. “That’s the way it feels to me.”
Don Shula’s eldest son will be 59 next month. It is an age when most men are plotting their retirement. It is the age when this man is getting back to what he loves.