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WATCH: LSU DT’s pregame war dance with his dad will have you ready to run through a brick wall
By Keith Farner
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Breiden Fehoko appeared to enter Tiger Stadium like any other player, until he reached his father, and things got intense.
A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, the Texas Tech transfer then performed an intense war dance with his father. It not only fired up the Fehokos, but those around them watched in awe of the performance. This is nothing new, though, for the family.
From 2000 to 2011, Fehoko’s father, Vili, was “Vili the Warrior,” as an entertainer during the University of Hawaii football and men’s volleyball games, according to The Advocate. Fehoko, who was too young to play football at 3 years old, often joined his father on the field for halftime performances.
At 6-foot-4, 291 pounds, Fehoko is one of the stronger linemen on the team, but that has nothing on his father. When coach Ed Orgeron and former defensive line coach Pete Jenkins first saw Vili on Fehoko’s official visit, his dad was curling 120-pound dumbbells in sets of 20.
In a big game like Georgia on Saturday, every bit of getting pumped up helps.
LSU’s @breidenfehoko4 and his dad doing a haka will have you fired up 🔥 (via @MarkClements225) pic.twitter.com/H3tFdrmix3
— ESPN (@espn) October 13, 2018
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.