Marcus Tucker left the practice field, made his way to his locker, and cried.
As a tryout player that almost certainly means one thing. Turn your playbook in to Coach. You’ve been, as Jake Taylor explained in Major League, red-tagged.
But Tucker’s tears were not ones of sadness. They were of joy. He just learned he’d become a Pittsburgh Steeler.
“I’ll never forget this moment for the rest of my life,” he tells me in an interview over the weekend.
By now, you might know part of his story but it’s one worth telling again.