The barely required middle name of the university football player goes viral

Love and passion for sport runs deep. Sometimes it goes so deep that parents pass it on to their children. This is one of those stories, only in an absurd degree.

During the weekend, Bowling Green State University Linebacker Gideon Lampron Viral Viral went on social media when some fans discovered that he had an unusual middle name.

A glance at Lampron’s page on the Bowling Green grid shows his name as Gideon ESPN Lampron.

No, that’s not a nickname. It is also not a family name. Gideon’s father, Marty Lampron, called his child after the global leader in Sport.

Speaking with the Dayton Daily News, Lampron said that inspiration came for Gideons Middelste name after trying to call his firstborn son to another sport icon.

“He has a brother who is 10 years older named Gabriel,” Marty said the outlet. “I grew up in Boston. I went to talk for months to talk to my wife to be called him Larry Bird. It didn’t go well. ‘

Bowling Green Transfer Gideon Lampron has become viral for his unusual second name

Gideon’s father, Marty, attracted a quick to his wife and made the middle name of his son ‘ESPN’

Lampron was transferred to Bowling Green this spring after a striking season at FCS level

So when Gideon was born, Marty decided to get the jump on the birth certificate before his wife, Jenniffer, could change – despite the fact that she objected to call him ESPN (pronounced es -pen) in the first place.

‘Then she delivers Gideon and she is out. The nurse comes in for me to sign the birth certificate, “said Marty.

‘When I signed it, I literally printed ESPN in capital letters. She was cold when I did it. When she woke up, I told her I did it, and she said, “No, you didn’t.” She didn’t know I did it. She was not happy with me. ‘

Gideon, an emerging Redshirt Junior, will play his first snaps at the FBS level after switching from the University of Dayton.

He put 99 tackles, 23.5 tackles for a loss, six and a half bags and two forced junk in his Redshirt second -year season.

Those figures led him to earn FCS All-American Honors in the first team last season and several offers from schools such as Kent State, Utep, Ball State and Eastern Michigan.