Posted on 08/31/2007 1:46:50 PM PDT by ellenbrewster
Those guffaws floating over Colorado last Sunday morning didn’t come from the comic strips in newspaper but from the Sports section. With stunning velocity, Denver Bronco Travis Henry is racking up statistics not usually charted in professional sports; he has scored nine illegitimate kids with nine different women.
Henry is outdistanced, however, by former NBA Houston Rocket Calvin Murphy who had 14 out-of-wedlock children by nine women. Of course both are lapped by super-stud and premier athlete Seattle Slew, the Triple Crown winner who begat 1,066.
But in contrast, Slew’s progeny were planned and a source of pride celebrated by enthusiastic owners. Not so for the 23 children from Murphy and Henry’s dalliances. They were unexpected intruders - the offspring of feel-good micro-moments in the lives of men who treat women and sex like a carnival ride.
These youngsters won’t be cuddled and favored by a proud papa. Their unintended arrival makes them little more than irritating monthly support-checks and fodder for stand-up comedians.
It’s not easy being a collateral kid
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Tom Brady only has eight more to go to match Henry.
Good article. I often wish all these children could come live with us. So we’d have to have four-decker bunks ...
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