It’s Father’s Day, and we have explored the football ties that bind fathers and their sons and daughters elsewhere on our site.
This is a look at eight SEC football players inextricably linked to their dads because of the father’s fame in football and – in one case each – basketball and boxing. That’s not to say the sons won’t eventually eclipse the dads in terms of fame; for now, though, the sons sort of toil in the dad’s shadow. But they are impressive shadows. (And these are not the only SEC players whose dads have some bit of fame, either on campus or in the pros.