Could Richard Sherman miss the Super Bowl for his son's birth?

So this is a new wrinkle for the Super Bowl: Richard Sherman might, just might, miss it because of the impending birth of his son.

Sherman has decreed it unlikely he'll miss the game, but his girlfriend Ashley Moss is expected to deliver their first child, a son, in the next week. As a precautionary measure, she's in Arizona, and if she were to go into labor, she'd deliver the boy at a local hospital.

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As for whether the boy would show up on Super Bowl Sunday, Sherman had this to say on Thursday: "He's not supposed to come Sunday. I think he's going to be a disciplined young man."

Earlier, Sherman had noted that impending fatherhood had changed his perspective on this particular game, and allowed that it could give him extra motivation on Sunday.

"It's someone that actually depends on you for everyday living," he said during Media Day. "Everything they do is dependent on you and how you provide and how successful you are. As a parent, you want to set a great example for them, so I guess, to a degree, a lot of things are riding on [the Super Bowl]."

Someone's been pulling the fire alarm at the Patriots' hotel all week. Could someone else try to slip some labor-inducing hot sauce into Ms. Moss's breakfast on Sunday? You never know.

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