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Forty-one years after leaving Purdue, 49ers' Keena Turner graduates with his daughter

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- With a school deadline bearing down, four-time Super Bowl champion Keena Turner and his daughter Ella sat, stared at and tweaked the first slide of a project. Minutes turned to an hour, and an hour turned to two.

That night in 2019 was slipping away fast, and there was still more to do. But this wasn't a common case of a parent helping a child through an assignment. The opposite, in fact.

"He would be on the same slide for hours," Ella Turner said. "I'd have to say, 'Dad, we have about 10 more to go, we can't be on this one slide for two hours.