Forget the Super Bowl rings. After Sunday’s game, at least one, possibly three, players are going to need baby pacifiers. Super Bowl Sunday is turning out to be a baby boom for the Kansas City Chiefs — and maybe their opponent, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Early on Sunday, Chiefs guard Nick Allegretti’s wife, Christina, gave birth to twin girls, a team official told The Associated Press.
“Christina Allegretti with the first clutch performance on Super Bowl Sunday,” tweeted NFL.com reporter Ian Rapoport.
Allegretti is in Phoenix. His wife is at home in Chicago. He watched the babies arrive on FaceTime from the team’s hotel lobby while his teammates slept, the team official told the AP.
And then, in typical overachieving Chiefs fashion, another new little KC fan started its arrival into the world on Sunday, too, when Chariah Gordon, girlfriend of Chiefs wide receiver Mecole Hardman Jr., went into labor.
At 4:40 a.m. Sunday, about an hour after the Allegretti babies arrived, Hardman tweeted, in all capital letters: “OMG HER WATER BROKE.”
The news touched off a string of congratulations from Chiefs Kingdom. The couple revealed last fall a baby was on the way. Gordon was at the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead, posing during the on-field celebration, hand over her very round stomach. They had hinted that the baby might have a mind to come on Super Bowl Sunday.
Gordon is an Instagram model with more than 190k followers.
And as if three babies weren’t enough on this big-game day, Eagles fans are also awaiting the arrival of their newest family member, one who will call Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce “uncle.”
Kelce’s brother, Jason, the starting center for the Eagles, and his wife, Kylie, were expecting their third child at any moment. The baby’s arrival is so imminent that her obstetrician is reportedly in Phoenix with her.
Even so, even before the first snap, the Chiefs won this race.
