The Top 10 Athletes With the Most Illegitimate Children

[Swede]

"Marshall Faulk must not have been paying attention during Kurt Warner’s annual “Just because Jesus loves you, doesn’t mean he approves of nailing every Cheesecake Factory waitress with a botched boob job and paternity lawyer on speed dial,” speech. Faulk, whose child support payments rival his career yardage, joined the NFL’s “frequent impregnator program” in the late 1990s and has been one of its most valuable members ever since. His commitment to casual sex and inability to decipher the complexities of condom use make him a first ballot shoe-in for the “Is That Kid Mine?” Hall of Fame (which for some inexplicable reason is directly next to the NBA head offices in New York).

http://www.spike.com/blog/top-ten-athletes/93200?page=1&numPerPage=1

[madinmaryland]

1. With all that money, they can't afford a condem??

:wtf:

[Captain Hilts]

2. 'Condem'?

[1gobluedem]

3. I feel so sorry for the children

The snark is funny in this article but the idiocy of these men, and the women they slept with, isn't, especially when it comes to the kids who, in many cases, the guys just abandoned.

Isn't there a foundation that takes care of 'NBA Orphans?' That's just pitiful.

[Auggie]

4. +1

[joeybee12]

7. Agreed...one out-of-wedlock can be understandable, maybe even two...

...but come on, to get this many kids is sheer ignorance and neglect.

[reflection]

5. I haven't read this article yet,

but I'm going to predict that Shawn Kemp is on the list.

On edit: Yep, #5.

[provis99]

6. every single one of them is black

I guess professional millionaire athletes are contributing to the stereotype of the black male who impregnates a woman, then runs off.

[1gobluedem]

8. None of this is good

And it's very hypocritical. When Tom Brady's ex-girlfriend announced she was pregnant, people (many on this forum) wanted to tar and feather him for breaking up with her even though he didn't know she was pregnant when they broke up. Even though he's in the kid's life, supports him, and was there at his birth. Where was that outcry when all of this was going on? And it's still going on. These leagues need to do some major educating; this article should be required for every rookie, regardless of race, who comes into any professional sports league.

[erpowers]

10. Education Not the Issue

I think the NBA and other sports leagues (definitely the NBA) has been trying to educate guys about the dangers and sadness of having multiple kids with multiple women. I think the NBA has some type of rookie camp where they try to encourage the rookies to avoid bad behavior.

This is a personal issue. It seems that these guys just do not care and do not think about the things they do. It seems that some of these guys just do not listen.

Finally, the article is not hypocritical. Articles like this have been around for years.

[1gobluedem]

11. Not the article, the situation

If there were the same hue and cry there was for Tom Brady, maybe these guys will think about what this does to their image and marketability.

[TZ]

12. I doubt that would make much of a dent

These guys aren't thinking with the head thats on their shoulders.

[erpowers]

13. Partly Agree With Poster #12, But for Different Reasons

Making a big deal about this would not make that much of a difference, not because the guys are not thinking with the head on their shoulders, but because they just do not really care.

The reason Tom Brady was treated so much differently then these guys has a little to do with his girlfriend. Brady was in a situation in which he had dated a woman for a few years and then seemed to suddendly dump her. He then seemed to move on to another woman. When it first came out that Brady's ex-girlfriend was pregnant it took a while for some people to realize Brady did not know she was pregnant when he dumped her. A number of people thought Brady had just dumped his pregnant girlfriend in order to move on to greener pastures. Once some people realized they had broken up before he learned she was pregnant some people might have changed their mind. With the other guys it is a different story.

Also, Brady's girlfriend was fairly independently wealthy. There was little or no chance that she had gotten pregnant to get her hands on his money. One reason these other guys seem to get away with getting multiple women pregnant is the fact that many of these women are not independently wealthy. On many occasions the fans/supporters of these athletes claim these women are just trying to get money from these guys. There was very little ability to say the same thing in the Brady case.

[joeybee12]

9. Athletes are role models, some people say they didn't ask to be,

but they don't get a choice in the matter, when you're famous you're gonna be looked up to by lots of kids. that's just the way it is...pro sports organizations need to drill this into every single one of their players' heads...and not just look to keep making money.

[devilgrrl]

14. You gotta love the racists comments to the article - guess that's why they wrote it.

:popcorn: