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ESPN WON'T TACKLE HENRY STORY TRAVIS HENRY
Nine kids, nine women.
October 28, 2007 -- WITH Packers - Broncos on ESPN tomorrow night, and given that ESPN's "Monday Night Football" pregame shows start Tuesday mornings, it'll be interesting to hear how - and how far - the network's battalion of analysts, insiders, experts and reporters will go in addressing Denver's starting running back, Travis Henry.
It's all backwards, all crazy. Among running backs, Tiki Barber generates a lot more media heat and derision, especially from ESPN, than Travis Henry. Perhaps, though, extensive reporting and panel discussion of the Henry story would be considered impolite and impolitic, don't go there.
Thus, Henry mostly escapes the scorn and ridicule others would feel for, oh, a goal-line fumble, or for the "distractions" caused to his team by announcing he'd retire at the end of the season, or for embarking on a not-just-sports TV career.
Henry, 28 and with his third NFL team, is suing the league to avoid a second drug suspension, one that would cost him an entire season. But there's more, lots more. We're rooting for Henry to beat this rap so he can keep on playing. More than most, he needs the work in order to support his, er, family.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution this summer reported that Henry, the career rushing leader at the University of Tennessee and Mr. Florida Football in high school, has fathered nine children, all out of wedlock, by nine different women. His children live in at least four Southern states.
And though this year the former Pro Bowl selection signed a five-year, $22.5 million deal, he tends to go broke. That doesn't bode well for the immediate or long-term futures of his nine children or their nine different mothers. Henry has been ordered by several courts on several occasions to pay support for at least seven of his children, one with costly medical needs.
In August, according to DeKalb County (Ga.) court records of a child-support hearing for a 3-year-old son, Henry was scolded by the judge for "his spending habits." Henry, the court learned, spent $100,000 on a car and $146,000 on jewelry.
But such stories, for some reason, don't travel well; media people don't have the stomach to tell them in such or much detail. That's why Henry isn't considered a fraction of the bum Barber is. And that's crazy.
Henry told the Denver Post, "People can judge me all they want. But only God can judge me."
Hey, if we're all God's children, let Him pay the child support.
Nine kids, nine women.
October 28, 2007 -- WITH Packers - Broncos on ESPN tomorrow night, and given that ESPN's "Monday Night Football" pregame shows start Tuesday mornings, it'll be interesting to hear how - and how far - the network's battalion of analysts, insiders, experts and reporters will go in addressing Denver's starting running back, Travis Henry.
It's all backwards, all crazy. Among running backs, Tiki Barber generates a lot more media heat and derision, especially from ESPN, than Travis Henry. Perhaps, though, extensive reporting and panel discussion of the Henry story would be considered impolite and impolitic, don't go there.
Thus, Henry mostly escapes the scorn and ridicule others would feel for, oh, a goal-line fumble, or for the "distractions" caused to his team by announcing he'd retire at the end of the season, or for embarking on a not-just-sports TV career.
Henry, 28 and with his third NFL team, is suing the league to avoid a second drug suspension, one that would cost him an entire season. But there's more, lots more. We're rooting for Henry to beat this rap so he can keep on playing. More than most, he needs the work in order to support his, er, family.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution this summer reported that Henry, the career rushing leader at the University of Tennessee and Mr. Florida Football in high school, has fathered nine children, all out of wedlock, by nine different women. His children live in at least four Southern states.
And though this year the former Pro Bowl selection signed a five-year, $22.5 million deal, he tends to go broke. That doesn't bode well for the immediate or long-term futures of his nine children or their nine different mothers. Henry has been ordered by several courts on several occasions to pay support for at least seven of his children, one with costly medical needs.
In August, according to DeKalb County (Ga.) court records of a child-support hearing for a 3-year-old son, Henry was scolded by the judge for "his spending habits." Henry, the court learned, spent $100,000 on a car and $146,000 on jewelry.
But such stories, for some reason, don't travel well; media people don't have the stomach to tell them in such or much detail. That's why Henry isn't considered a fraction of the bum Barber is. And that's crazy.
Henry told the Denver Post, "People can judge me all they want. But only God can judge me."
Hey, if we're all God's children, let Him pay the child support.
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