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What We Learned From Netflix’s New Vince Young Documentary
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Vince Young’s story is, in some ways, a typical football tragedy. The Houston native was a prized high school recruit whose lack of a father meant a difficult early life; he then found a father figure in Mack Brown, his Longhorns coach in the early aughts, and excelled. But as that relationship ended upon Young’s transition to an NFL career, he learned that not every locker-room leader would treat him with the same care that Brown had: He became another Black quarterback in the NFL paired with a coach who didn’t believe in him, and after six seasons in the league, he washed out despite immense…The post What We Learned From Netflix’s New Vince Young Documentary appeared first on Texas Monthly.