Phil Robertson, the bearded patriarch of "Duck Dynasty" and a former starting quarterback at Louisiana Tech, died, his family announced Sunday. He was 79. No cause of death was given, though his son Jase Robertson revealed in December on the family podcast that his father was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Five years before Phil Robertson died, an unexpected addition came into his life. In early 2020, the Duck Dynasty patriarch found out that he had an adult daughter named Phyllis, whom he fathered after an affair in the 1970s.