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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Are you saying that if you had a wife and she was going to deliver your first child on SB Sunday you would have no problem making the decision to play or not to play?
You're first little boy (which he knows it is) is coming into this world. Do you know how scary it is for a father?
It's the most terrifying experience I've ever been through as a man. You can't protect her, you can't protect the baby and you're just there. That's the feeling I remember. I'm a man and I'm helpless to protect them. If something went wrong and I wasn't there.....hell with my family or hers....I'd never forgive myself.
You're job as a man is to make sure everyone else does their job so your defensless child comes into this world with a protector looming at every turn. You'll say stupid **** and feel mocked and ridiculed. That's what happens nowadays. They love to crush and dispirit fathers.
That kid knows nothing of this, but he/she will know you were there to protect them.
If it came down to a game or being there, the kid will say he didn't care. It doesn't matter.
You know better.
That's just Sherman marketing his brand again...drawing attention to himself.
Twenty something years ago this issue came up when some NFL player was going to be fined for missing a regular season game to attend the birth of his child. I used to call into sports radio shows a lot then and I got COMPLETELY HAMMERED by basically everyone for saying he shouldn't have missed the game. I mean, HAMMERED. Men, women, dogs, cats, it was dump all over me night on whatever radio station it was that night. Now, I was a college-aged kid then and hadn't had children of my own so I couldn't bring that perspective to it. And now that I've had two children, I can look back and say that while I am glad my husband was there every step of the way, what I truly needed was my doula who knew what to do for me other than look completely helpless. I would be all, Go play in the Superbowl! But that is the opinion of me and me only. And I obviously feel differently about a regular season game now as well (except maybe a division game? lol).
And one chance to see the birth of his first child, I wouldn't trade that for any amount of money. That said, there are ways to slow things down if it comes to that.Some buffoon on NFLN actually summed it up pretty well:
Obviously it's one of the most important days of his life. But while he has a whole lifetime to raise that child, he only has one opportunity to win this Super Bowl.
Tin foil body suit may be in order...Okay, let me put on my tinfoil hat for a moment.
Considering Carrol's comments (I watched it live on NFLN) it seems to me that this might be an excellent way to cover for Sherman if his injuries are really more extensive than reported. He was in some serious distress during the NFCCG, and if the damage is more extensive, more limiting, would it be better to have to sit him down prior to the game, or to have him suddenly decide he "needs to be there" when his child is born?
I mean, what it does is allow the Seahawks to save face and have an excuse for losing, while at the same time not having to play him and risk more extensive, or even permanent injuries.
I see him playing in the game, but I do think he's worse off than we're being led to believe. I'm just posting this to play devil's advocate here.
First delivery is usually long, that said, my smaller wife gave birth to our first, (a large) baby boy in twelve hours.I went to a birthday party for one of my young relatives today. Since there were plenty of mothers there, and a pregnant soon-to-be-mother, I posed the question to them.
Not one said he should skip the game.
He's having a son, but enough of these sappy sentiments already! Yes, of course, we all wish for "happy/healthy mother and baby," etc. But this isn't his "family." It's Shermdick's girlfriend/baby momma done Antonio Cromartie style.All the best to him and his family. I hope he has a happy and healthy daughter.
He's having a son, but enough of these sappy sentiments already! Yes, of course, we all wish for "happy/healthy mother and baby," etc. But this isn't his "family." It's Shermdick's girlfriend/baby momma done Antonio Cromartie style.
From looking at her Twitter it certainly seems like this is more than a pump and dump relationship. Just because you aren't married according to a piece of paper does not mean that you aren't family. Come back when(if) he has kids with 3 different chicks. Just because he isn't married to her does not throw him into the Cromartie camp, unless you live 60 years back in time. If that's the case(as it seems), then welcome to current times.He's having a son, but enough of these sappy sentiments already! Yes, of course, we all wish for "happy/healthy mother and baby," etc. But this isn't his "family." It's Shermdick's girlfriend/baby momma done Antonio Cromartie style.
Tin foil body suit may be in order...