When college football programs have Senior Day for graduating football players, the players typically bring their parents with them to celebrate the day. That wouldn’t be possible for Michigan State cornerback Josh Butler, who lost both of his parents in the past two years. So instead, Butler brought his adorable dogs Roxy and Remi with him, and brought the excited pups onto the field as his family.
Butler adopted the dogs as a way to cope with his parents’ separate deaths. His father died in 2017, just ahead of MSU’s big matchup with Penn State. According to the Lansing State Journal, hours after Butler got a text from his father that read “Don’t forget to keep God first and play hard.