Julie And Zach Ertz Naming Their Son "Madden" Just Ensured The Kid Is Going To Be In The Pro Football Hall Of Fame

First of all congrats to the Ertz family. I hope everyone is happy and healthy.

Second of all, I think college football fans can officially start trying to figure out where little Madden Ertz may want to play once he leaves the nursery and is eligible for Signing Day in roughly 18 years. I'm joking but also not joking since if someone showed me a message board of SEC fans discussing where they think ex-players babies may go to school, I wouldn't bat an eyelash. Hell, I bet Brandon Walker once was scouring delivery rooms in search of the next great Mississippi State Bulldog.

Hey Devlin, can you take a minute from getting ready for Rough N Rowdy (BuyRNR.com) and ask Brandon if he's ever scouted out newborns for his college football team?

Yikes. Sorry Dev!

Don't get it twisted though, Madden Ertz is as much a lock to becoming a stud football player as any baby born in 2022 simply because of his name. I know it's crazy to accept, but your entire life is pretty much decided for you when your parents fill out some paperwork after the most stressful day of their lives. If I was named Mike or Tom instead of redacted since people hate when they find out I wasn't born "Clem", I would definitely be doing something else instead of blogging about baby names. I'm not complaining but it's simply the truth.

Anyway, you don't get named after perhaps the most influential person in NFL history after he passed away then become an accountant, a teacher, a landscaper, or any other career that is perfectly fine. You were born to become a football player. Or coach/broadcaster/video game icon. Take your pick in this blog I did about the legend that changed my life.

The only way Madden Ertz would be even more of a layup to becoming a 99 Overall player in Madden in real life if he was born on Madden 23's release date, which is tomorrow. Based on the picture, the lil guy was 8 days early, which is probably when the people that spent their life savings on Madden Ultimate Team nonsense got the game. Actually now that I think of the last dozen or so Maddens, maybe it's best the Ertz's newest member wasn't born on the day the new Madden which is the same as the old Madden came out.

Nonetheless, I'm still looking forward to watching him play on the gridiron any given Sunday, preferably not for his dad's former team in Philly since his old man scared me despite being named ZACH (sorry to all the Zachs out there but we all know Zack is the correct way to spell that name, which isn't exactly a great name considering the person that made it famous for my generation was an outright scumbag, which I hate saying since I was always #TeamZack when it came to Kelly Kapowski's heart. But facts are facts).

For more stone cold parenting facts, check out this week's Podfathers where Large talks about dropping his son off at Bama for freshman year (Roll Tide) and he discussed how little the Bed, Bath & Beyond trips have changed over the years.