Brad Holmes had just finished his second interview with the Detroit Lions on Wednesday when he called his mother, Joan, and greeted her with a routine, "Hey, what's up?"
Anxiously awaiting word on how her only son's second interview with the Lions went, Joan retreated immediately to the quiet of her home office and moments later was sobbing so uncontrollably that her boyfriend came to check on her, worried something was wrong.
"I said, ‘Hey, how did everything go?’" Joan Holmes said. "And (Brad) says, 'They offered me the job.' And I just started crying.