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.
“What did women do all those years before men were allowed in the delivery room?”
Different.
They may not have been “allowed”, but they were certainly allowed right outside. (Oh and that situation with hospitals didn’t exist much until the ‘40s/’50s, very brief time. Mostly it was home.) They could be there and ready if something happened - like the baby’s or mother’s death/dying. Yes, it did happen, plenty.