Turns out Philip Rivers wasn’t kidding when he said in a 2020 interview that he and his wife, Tiffany, “didn’t have a number” on how many children they wanted to have.
At the time of that interview, the Riverses had nine kids. They are on track to make that number 10 in October.
Rivers, who’s now the head football coach at St. Michael Catholic High in Fairhope, Ala., revealed to AL.com that he and his wife are expecting a boy. It will mark the couple’s first new child since their current youngest, Anna, was born in 2019.
“We’ve had one pretty much every two years and now this is the longest gap,” the former NFL quarterback told AL.com. “We are all fired up. Everyone was pulling for a boy. Even our girls wanted a boy.”
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There are seven girls and two boys in the family, so it’s easy to understand why they would want the numbers to even out a bit with child No. 10.
But the family wasn’t anticipating another kid joining. Tiffany is 40, and both Philip’s mother and grandmother had nine children each.
“We thought we would be the third generation of nine, but we decided to go double digits,” he said, before adding: “Or I should we didn’t decide it. God decided.”
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