It was the most eventful Super Bowl Sunday for Los Angeles Rams receiver Van Jefferson.
He didn’t just win a title with the franchise that night at SoFi Stadium — in the middle of the game, his wife went into labor, and in the middle of the post-win celebration, cameras captured the moment he told his kids that they had to rush to the hospital.
So what did he end up naming his son? It turns out it’s a Super Bowl-winning themed name! As he told the Adam Schefter podcast — and as transcribed by Rams Wire — his new kid is named … Champ!
That wasn’t always the planned name, but after the way everything happened on Super Bowl Sunday, it was only appropriate to go with Champ.
“It wasn’t always picked,” he said. “We were really thinking about ‘Wynn’ and ‘Miles’ but then it was like, I think it’s very fitting to name him Champ. And we just looked it up and Champ is like a warrior. And my wife is a warrior. What she did that whole game and what she did throughout the whole week of the Super Bowl, the week of Super Bowl being so crazy, he’s a champ and she’s a warrior, so Champ Curtis Jefferson. That’s the name we got.”
Jefferson and his wife couldn’t have picked a more fitting name for their new child. He said the timing of the Super Bowl and birth of their son is something he and his wife will “always cherish, something we will always remember and be grateful for.”
Wonderful!
