A father and coach: Mike Vrabel’s dad gives inside look at Super Bowl journey

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready Hours before the AFC Championship Game, Chuck Vrabel’s phone buzzed with three text messages that arrived minutes apart. The first was from one of his former players at Norton High School, a public school outside of Akron, where he coached basketball in the early 1980s. So was the second. And the third. All three ex-players wanted to wish his son well, a boy they used to tease and chase around the Norton High gym during practices over Christmas break. Try to pick on a grizzled Mike Vrabel now, at 6-foot-4 and 50 years old, well, good luck. But back when he was just a boy who had yet to celebrate his 10th birthday, one of the most imposing head...