Julian Edelman Releases Heart-Melting Statement About Parenting And Playoffs

Julian Edelman and the New England Patriots will try to win the Super Bowl this year, and things took a completely different direction. The receiver got his greatest supporter recently, and this cute little girl will be there supporting him. Edelman opened up about his parenting, explaining how it makes everything sweet.

“One hundred percent. When you become a pa, you have different priorities now and you’re not living for yourself, you’re living for someone else now. It’s pretty cool to go out and experience success and having your little human that’s just running around saying “Da-Da” that doesn’t know anything is going on. She’s like a little good luck charm. It’s unbelievable when you get to see her after a game. The feeling has changed. My whole family’s been a part of my road with how close we are and to welcome her in, it just makes it bigger and better,” Edelman talked about his parenting.

The Patriots receiver had a really wild year. He recovered from a torn ACL, was hit by a suspension, and became a father.

Parenting made things easier

“It means the world,” he said about the upcoming Super Bowl. “This is what you play the game for and it’s been a crazy year for me, two years. I have a kid, tear your ACL, you miss four games. It’s been a mentally, physically, emotionally exhausting year. You put all that effort into overcoming that for this game. It’s been a heck of a year to get to go out and play with your teammates and see how this thing’s evolved out. It’s always a great thing getting to play in the last game of the year.”

Edelman missed last year’s Super Bowl.

“It was tough,” he said. “You’ve got mixed emotions. You’re happy your teammates are there. You’ve seen some of these younger guys come in as rookies and develop big roles and make big plays to get to the Super Bowl and you’re excited for them but then you also have a hurt feeling because you’re not playing. That’s kind of how you feel but that was last year and this year I’m thinking about the Los Angeles Rams.”

“I think you get to focus more on football,” he said. “Fortunately, I’ve played in a couple of these and you get to refine your routine and it allows you to think about football. It allows you to think about the Los Angeles Rams and what they’re doing and how they are on defense and special teams and [Johnny] Hekker being a quarterback back there as a punter, that’s what it allows you to do because you have a little experience with that. But that’s it.”