Bucs help out McCoy

[Cookie Lyon]

Wow! This is awesome! 

[SOJA]

this is so damn cool 

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

His wife, Ebony McCoy, was his high school sweet heart.  So I guess that can explain the young age of the first.

He has 5 kids at 31.  He is apparently trying to challenge Phillip Rivers.

[Khyber53]

2 hours ago, 4Corners said:

I think that’s gotta be one of the lesser talked about inconveniences of being a professional athlete - you miss a lot of important stuff and family. 
 

you hear it a bit from coaches or players when they retire, they often say they wish they could have been a better dad. 

There sure are a lot of folks making $40k or less a year that miss out on even more than that. While it's nice that his teammates do that, my heart really goes out to those nurses, ambulance drivers, third shift factory workers, cops, cooks and convenience store clerks that never get to spend holidays, weekends or evenings with their kids.

[4Corners]

2 hours ago, CardiacCat said:

True.... but there are many other professions like that.   

Very true. 

[Captain Morgan]

This speaks very well for those that went to the game.  Glad to see Winston there.

 

This speaks even more for Gerald McCoy.

[4Corners]

1 hour ago, Khyber53 said:

There sure are a lot of folks making $40k or less a year that miss out on even more than that. While it's nice that his teammates do that, my heart really goes out to those nurses, ambulance drivers, third shift factory workers, cops, cooks and convenience store clerks that never get to spend holidays, weekends or evenings with their kids.

Yup no argument from me here. Don’t forget about the people who work behind the scenes in TV and Radio that work weird hours all the time So we can watch games on TV. 

[4Corners]

3 hours ago, Moo Daeng said:

Then you have millions to spend nearly unlimited time with them other times of the year 

 

Sure, but missing things like graduation, birthdays, and even their birth take their toll and they have to live with missing it. Money doesn’t solve every issue LOL. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

4 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice

[KB_fan]

11 hours ago, Dex said:

Wait hold up...

McCoy is 31 and if it's his son's senior night he must be 17 or 18? So that means Gerald was slinging some potent dick at 14/15?

Saw several posts on Twitter that suggested the oldest is his stepson.

But the more I look into it, it doesn't seem true since he's known his wife since 7th grade.

But regardless, this is a VERY cool story. Kudos to Jameis, Lavonte, Evans and Donavon Smith for being there for a friend.

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This article suggests that Neveah, is his first child, born when he was 17.

https://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/bucs-gerald-mccoy-uses-his-grand-stage-to-change-lives/2281328/

His oldest son Marcellus has a different last name (Crutchfeld) as well....

Makes me respect GMC a whole lot more to read what he went through, losing his mother and becoming a dad at 17... and seeing the man and leader he's become.

 

 

[332nd]

A lot of people miss family events, but football is one of the few professions you can wind up missing events you were actually there for.