“He always had his eagle cane holding his knee straight and his pipe out of one side of his mouth… Just a good old fashioned badass American.”

- Trent Murphy, Washington Redskins, on his grandpa

You might imagine that a guy once described by Sports Illustrated as playing with a “deadly serious scowl wedged between his bald head and lightly grown beard” is one in a long line of deadly serious, scowling men. And you’d be right. Trent Murphy’s boxing grandfather (with big ole’ mitts) and dad who is, after beating cancer, still grinding in the weight room every night served some serious lessons in toughness that drove him to become The Yeti we know and love today.

Happy Father’s Day to the absolute toughest of dads.

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