Cheryl Bosa was outside a restaurant Saturday in Newport Beach, Calif., sipping on sparkling rosé on a perfect 82-degree day, sitting beside her sons’ girlfriends.
“We are celebrating!” Cheryl roared over the phone.
The women were toasting Cheryl’s youngest son Nick’s new contract, which makes him the highest-paid NFL player who doesn’t throw touchdown passes.
She’s headed to see her older son Joey play against the Dolphins in Los Angeles after a summer of unknowns. She describes the last six weeks waiting for Nick’s deal to get done as “horrible.”
“It was like “Groundhog Day,” every day bleeding into the next,” she said. “I spent most days pacing around the house, waiting for the call. I couldn’t sit still. I couldn’t go anywhere. I didn’t want to go to my office. I didn’t know if I wanted to be alone or go sit with Nick. It was horrible.”
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Nick lives in a townhouse a few miles from his parents in Fort Lauderdale, where he sat around between workouts while holding out and waiting to hear from his agent Brian Ayrault.
“When the season started to get closer, every day was worse,” Cheryl Bosa said. “He just kept up his same routine. He would train twice a day and…
