On the night of Jan. 20, 2018, Mike Vrabel's phone lit up with the call that the Tennessee Titans wanted to hire him as their head coach. At the time he was inside Limoncello’s, the iconic Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End, just a couple doors down from Paul Revere’s house.
Vrabel had spent eight seasons in New England as a powerful linebacker, helping the Patriots to three Super Bowl titles and countless memories. He was there that night as a father, his son, Tyler, was a high school star in Texas but was on a recruiting trip to Boston College, drawn back to the area of his father’s greatest success.