Las Vegas Sun

Christopher DeVargas

Las Vegas High football coach Erick Capetillo is shown at practice Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Later this month Capetillo will spend three weeks as a Bill Walsh Coaching Fellow in the Atlanta Falcons training camp.

Las Vegas High coach is rewarded for his dogged pursuit to join an NFL staff

July 24, 2021 | 2 a.m.

By Ray Brewer

Erick Capetillo’s grandfather arrived at the family’s east Las Vegas house one weekend morning and asked his grandsons if they wanted join a football team. Little did the young Capetillo know that day would lead him to ...