Michigan State Spartans football coach Mel Tucker speaks to the media on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, in East Lansing. Detroit Free Press
Will Dowell loves few things more than a good practical joke.
His three sons certainly are on that short list. Unless they are the ones pulling the prank.
Early morning on April Fools’ Day, the patriarch of this Michigan State football family poked his head into each of his boys’ rooms one by one, as they slept, to mess with them. First, he hoodwinked a half-sleeping Andrew. Then he got Michael. By the time he got to David’s room, though, the ruse had been figured out.