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Baby Mama Drama is eternal
November 10, 2007Baby Mama Drama not only crosses racial lines these days - from Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry (nine baby mamas) to New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (two baby mamas) - it can also follow you to the grave.
Take the case of Notre Dame icon George Gipp.
That's right. Things are so bad at Notre Dame that even the Gipper's got drama.
Gipp, who was immortalized by Knute Rockne's legendary, "win one for the Gipper" speech, died from pneumonia and a strep infection in 1920 during his senior year at Notre Dame.
Yet, 87 years later, his eternal slumber came to halt thanks to baby mama drama.
There was a rumor that Gipp had fathered a child - Bette Bright Weeks of Crown Point, Ind., who died last January at age 86.
Sports author Mike Bynum discovered, interviewed and introduced Weeks to Gipp's surviving relatives prior to her death. Later, Rick Frueh of Chicago, Gipp's great-nephew, consented to his exhumation for a paternity test.
In the end, if this had all been an episode of the Maury Povich Show, the host would exclaim, "George Gipp, you are not the father!"
Maybe that was a little crass, but so was exhuming his body.
While Frueh holds to his claim that this was for the benefit of the families involved, Bynum chose to contact ESPN. The network then filmed the exhumation for an upcoming special about Gipp, though both Frueh and Bynum deny profiting from it.
Yeah, right.
Still, there's a silver lining.
The Gipper didn't get caught up after all.
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