Joseph Tapine's tears reflect his emotional distance from his gang member father.
Joseph Tapine's tears are for a man he isn't in touch with these days.
"He was in Black Power, which was one of the main gangs back home," Tapine, one of rugby league's elite front-row enforcers, told Jake Duke on Fox League's Face to Face.
They are for his dad.
Tapine had a humble childhood in Wellington, New Zealand, with a hard-working mum and no family car; he didn't learn to drive until he met his wife, Kirsten. He and his big brother and sister walked themselves to school and footy training, or took the bus. They knew no better and were happy.
His father was a gang member.