Sometimes we need a reminder that women giving birth are pretty much superheroes, and that’s especially true for Natashia Corrigan who went through seven hours of labor to give birth to a 13 pound, four ounce child, Brian Jr., back in January.
You may be wondering why this is sports, but it’s for sure sports. Not the giving birth part, that’s not sports. That’s a beautiful part of life and something we should always be impressed by women getting through, but this gigantic baby is a future sports star in the making. I don’t know what sport Brian Corrigan Jr. will play, but I am fairly positive that he will be that kid that every other mom in the league requests to see a birth certificate on before letting him play.
This is an exceptionally large baby and being draft season for both the NBA and NFL, we know it’s never to early to start projecting potential to the next level, even for the 2036 draft class. Being Australian, rugby might in this child’s future, but what about other sports where we could eventually see him here in the States?
Australia has sent a number of basketball stars to the NBA recently, and you figure that the sport will continue to grow down under over the next couple decades. We could be looking at the Australian Shaq here as the 2036 NBA Draft as the top overall pick. His dad is even wearing a Dwyane Wade Heat jersey in a video interview after the birth, so there’s a good chance he’ll get steered towards basketball.
Australian punters have flooded American football, and if Nick Saban gets wind of a giant baby in Australia he might start trying to put Corrigan on track to be his left tackle of the future for the Tide in 2035. Maybe he finds his way to baseball as a home run mashing DH. Whatever sport it may be, I hope this kid grows up to make millions of dollars doing it, if for no other reason than his mother deserves that money for delivering him.
(h/t Buzzfeed)
