OT: QB JJ Engaged to GF KK
Wishing you youngsters many years of happiness!
https://nypost.com/2024/01/20/sports/j-j-mccarthy-gets-engaged-to-girlfriend-katya-kuropas/
Top comment from their Instagram post: "Bro got 2 rings in 2 weeks."
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:27 AM ^
Thank god her middle name doesn’t begin with a K.
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:29 AM ^
Wouldn't matter soon anyway.
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:58 AM ^
Friend of mine has initials of KKK. Also happens to be the most progressive/liberal person I know.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:08 PM ^
Initials guilt.
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:35 PM ^
White KKKnight
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:24 PM ^
I trust that it wasn't your intent but how sad is it that we have to qualify these comments.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:24 PM ^
Not the same, but a friend of mine has the initials RAT.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:44 PM ^
My son's initials are HGH and he's an athlete. Oops.
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:10 PM ^
former Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno or Colombo?
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:26 PM ^
My friend (MJK) married a girl (KKT). She did not keep her middle name and went KTK.
January 22nd, 2024 at 2:00 PM ^
I'm glad my middle name doesnt start with S because my initials would have been ASS.
January 22nd, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^
Sounds like your parents have no sense of humor.
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:30 AM ^
Good for them! They'll be remembered for the Nebraska smooch mid game as he was resting on the bench.
January 22nd, 2024 at 2:03 PM ^
I gotta hand it to JJ, that's one beautiful puppy he got himself there (to go along with a beautiful fiancee.)
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:31 AM ^
The haters are going to be all over him for only handing the ring off and not being able to complete a deep pass
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:44 AM ^
Further proof he’s just a gem manager….
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:13 PM ^
Bravo
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:32 AM ^
I want to know the dog's name. Maizey? Jimmy?
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:35 AM ^
Better not be! My girl is Maizey Blue! Don’t need any other cute maizeys roaming out here!
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:58 AM ^
Our old Bullmastiff was Maizy Blue. Our new Bullmastiff is Bo.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:10 PM ^
I'm a huge Michigan fan but a friend of mine named his daughter Haily Victoria so I cede the crown to him.
January 22nd, 2024 at 2:04 PM ^
We have two Golden Retrievers: Bo (8 years old) and Hutch (2 years old).
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:38 AM ^
thankfully its a real dog, too, and not a yappy, fuzzy slipper
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:41 PM ^
One of my favorite old-school newspaper columnists was the late, great and very curmudgeonly Mike Royko, who wrote for a number of Chicago newspapers in his long career.
From Royko's column on the Westminster Dog Show, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 11, 1993
"The judging for the grand champion of the Westminster dog show was on TV the other night, and I had no trouble picking a dog to root for.
Part of it was a simple process of elimination. Several of the dogs looked like shaggy blankets, balls of yarn or dust mops. One looked like a man's blond hairpiece with tiny legs.
I have nothing against little dogs that look like dust mops. I'm sure they make wonderful pets and companions. Even fierce watchdogs, should your home be invaded by midget burglars.
And I am definitely not going to make any stupid jokes about them. I did that once and heard from hundreds of angry owners of fuzzy little dogs.
They were really upset when I said that if I owned one of the tiny fuzzy dogs, I would spray it with Endust and use it to clean under the beds. And I understood their feelings because it was a foolish remark.
Some were even more upset when I said that if I owned one of the tiny furry dogs, I'd tie it to a long stick and use it to wash the windows, which was also a ridiculous thought."
Full column here: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-02-11-9303177699-story.html
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:39 AM ^
Marley
January 22nd, 2024 at 2:45 PM ^
Named for Bob Marley, interesting.
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:40 AM ^
The caption to his post was, "Me, You & Marley Forever & Ever." So probably Marley.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:02 PM ^
I just picked up my new golden retriever puppy on Saturday (Blu). He enjoyed watching the lions win.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:15 PM ^
He shares several common features with the the kings of the jungle! Lovely mane.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^
Quite a mane on that dog...
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:44 PM ^
Awww! What a cute pup! How's he doing? I've always loved Golden Retrievers. Such beautiful dogs.
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:53 PM ^
Best behaved puppy i've ever had, He's my personal 2nd Golden and I've had 6 going up.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:21 PM ^
we're expecting a pup in April..... Natty Blue is on the short list of potential names.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:26 PM ^
Michiganders will think of nasty beer mixed with nasty Canadian beer.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:47 PM ^
It's Marley
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:37 AM ^
As a 50+ year old man, I would strongly advise JJ to wait another few years to marry. Or, let the engagement play out over 4-5 years and see how things go.
But hey, who am I to stand in the way of young love...
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:45 AM ^
Yet as a Michigan fan why wait? Start working on that 2042 recruiting now.
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:45 AM ^
A good ante-nup is also advisable. Because.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:16 PM ^
Username checks out…
January 22nd, 2024 at 1:31 PM ^
Your user name checks out too. 😅
Want to do some real wrestling, Coach? Sit opposite the soon-to-be-ex's lawyers who are working for a piece of the split. 😉
January 22nd, 2024 at 3:10 PM ^
Alphas don't have soon to be ex's...they lock it down and hold it down. You did it to yourself, again...
January 22nd, 2024 at 4:32 PM ^
Time will tell, Coach. And I did nothing to myself, or to anyone else.
January 22nd, 2024 at 7:41 PM ^
There’s no such thing as alphas.
January 22nd, 2024 at 11:57 AM ^
Bro is just stacking up the life events. Championship, NFL, and engagement all at once.
This isn’t unusual. When I was at Michigan, it was pretty common to attend a Law School graduation party and be introduced to a bajillion newly-engaged fiancées/fiancés.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:00 PM ^
When I was at Michigan, it was pretty common to attend a Law School graduation party and be introduced to a bajillion newly-engaged fiancées/fiancés.
Sure, but that's a different population. J.J. is 21. Law school grads are 25 and up (increasingly these days).
Some novelist referred to 27 as the "age of calculation." I agree. If I look across the many samples in my extended family and social network, the success rate of older couples is way better than younger couples.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:26 PM ^
Agreed. 15 years ago I married at 40 and my wife was 26.
Advantages:
1. I understood the depth of connection and commonalities required to make a relationship last decades beyond the blind infatuation that drove countless younger relationships that would have ended in disaster.
2. She thinks I'm old and doesn't want me to die (yet) so she focuses on health and nutrition.
3. Not that her input and wisdom are not major factors, but our age disparity provides me a level of executive deference on key life decisions that I likely would not have with a spouse of commensurate age.
Disadvantage:
1. Had I had him in my 20's, my son would have had 3 more decades with his dad relative to my current life expectancy.
2. I try my best, but I don't have the same energy to play with my son and do things with him were I younger.
Costs/benefits to younger or older. I wish JJ the best. Legend forever.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:52 PM ^
I met my husband when I was 28 and he was 30. We got married four years later. I told my kids to wait until they're 30 to get married. So much personal development in your 20's. Figuring out who you are and what you want/need is so important and hopefully happens before you get married. I know a lot of people who got married too young and then realized their spouse wasn't the person to go the distance with.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:36 PM ^
Stacking, yeah. For some reason the Little Caesar's "I've got a brother!" commercial from 30 years ago comes to mind. Also features a girl and a dog.
January 22nd, 2024 at 12:03 PM ^
That's how I thought about it as well, but I'm approaching it from the standpoint that when I was JJ's age, I was nowhere close to being ready to get married. I was nowhere near mature enough, but that doesn't mean he isn't. He's had to handle more pressure in his 21 years on this planet than I've had to handle in my near 35. That probably does a lot to mature a person, and quickly.
Plenty of people get engaged and married early in their 20s. Many of them are still together. I'm sure JJ and this girl will be too.