Yes, Richard, the kid, and the mother of his kid would be better off if they were married.
But skipping the SB for a hypothetical day of birth?
That probably doesn’t help anyone involved.
Between “being there” for the kid’s birth, and “being there” for the kid’s life, commend me to the latter.
Are you in agreement of this drivel? This kind of thinking is the epitome of the chick-ification of America. It is emotion over logic.
The child will not give a damn if daddy is in the delivery room or not. The child WOULD give a damn - if by age 8 or 9 - he found out his dad screwed his teammates, coaches and fans out of a Super Bowl title - because he bowed down to effeminized PC....
That was my thought when I heard about this “controversy” on the morning drive radio yesterday. “Marry the woman”. And then you can say ‘I want to be with my wife’ instead of ‘I want to be with my shack job when she gives birth to my bastard child.”
He’s too young to be getting married - brain still attempting to mature. Also, gotta protect ‘dat check book “ !!
S ;o)
During the whole War on Terror, how many thousands of service men were deployed during the birth of their child to their wife? This is a ridicules controversy.
I suspect “lil Sherm” will wait for his Feb 12 due date and all the all-of-a sudden concerned parents won’t have to debate whether he will miss the SB or not to see his son’s birth
I continue to be surprised (hint: I am old) that the mother is referred to in the news as “his girl friend”. That seems to be the modern term. In my day, this would have been a scandal and now it seems (sadly) “fashionable”.
Oh, and GO HAWKS!
Why doesn’t the NFL do something really daring like prohibiting players who have sired children outside of marriage from playing? That would go a long way toward addressing spousal/child abuse issues.
The girlfriend needs to do the right thing, have a partial birth abortion today and free Sherman up for the game. /s
That’s racist!!!!!! Oh wait.....
NOT!
In a million years.
Yes, he should do the right thing and marry the mother of his child.
He should do the OTHER right thing and show up for the game, even if she goes into labor. NFL players spend their entire careers working toward that particular goal. Sherman has no business letting down his teammates. It’s also his responsibility to act like a man and earn that paycheck to support mom and baby.
I give the girlfriend full credit for saying she won’t let him know if her labor begins so that he can play. The child wouldn’t care that daddy wasn’t present at delivery. On the contrary, he/she would think it was incredibly cool that he couldn’t be there because he was playing in the Super Bowl.
What did women do all those years before men were allowed in the delivery room? How do they give birth when husbands are away at war?
Last but not least, FR rules state that you need to post that entire article here instead of excerpting.
In the 1950s men weren’t even permitted in the room. Who cares? I was present for all 4 of mine, the last 2 of which were born in my bedroom. But I am not an NFL supertstar. And if I was my wife wouyld be furious if I skipped ANY game, let alone the Super Bowl.
I agree with Hannity; no huge need to be there for a birth which may or may not happen. In his case, he actually does this for a living. NOT the armchair jackasses who THINK it is the most important thing, even though they have absolutely no connection to the game. (Yes, I mean the millions of fans who obsess on this as if their lives depend on it.)
But I also am appalled to hear “girlfriend”, not wife. Not really surprised in this immoral age, but still properly appalled.
He at least needs a shotgun wedding.
He’s not married to her? And they’re making a big deal about his not being in the DR?
Holy crap!!
I don't know how many here have actually done it, but to deliver your child, with all the chaos, pain, and mechanics of just dealing with it, there is a moment in that glow of relief after the birth in which you get to hold your child in your arms and meet as two humans before G_d for the first time. It's unforgettable. It's that moment in which you know how far you'd go to protect that child that's yours, you'd never let her go, you'd never harm her, and therefore never divorce the mother, who went through that pain and exhaustion. There is an admiration for her, the courage, and love that it takes to endure it. That, process, and that moment bonds a family.
Even if that moment of contact happens after the actual birth (which it did for me), there is a continuity that feeds it because of presence at the birth, the coaching, the decisions made, even the two-year-old who wipes the sweat from mommy's face. It is a process not to be discounted that could have a great deal to do with whether Mr. Sherman becomes eventually Mr. Right.
I hope he does.
I had to turn off Hannity yesterday; he wouldn’t stop discussing that subject—the two are not even married. There are more important things to discuss than glamorizing the latest slam at marriage.
I listened to them on Fox and Friends speaking of this huge decision: attend the birth or play the game.
And then they said ‘girlfriend’. I wondered to myself what would make a man treat a woman like a wife, take joy in a birth upcoming for this ‘wife’, but still not make her legally his wife.
I couldn’t come up with a complimentary answer.
It also made me think about this new baby boy and those baby boys born to a wedded set of parents.
I couldn’t help but think that the wedded baby has a greater certainty of security.
And that is what makes the traditional nuclear family different than any other design of ‘marriage’ suggested by anyone, same sex or otherwise.
They should at least move the game to Saturday night so revelers have a day to recover.