Players pass Father’s Day away from families
A collection of Stampeders players celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday miles away from their kids. Romby Bryant was one of them. “Oh yeah, it is tough,” Bryant said. “It never gets easy. I Tweeted about it (Sunday). I don’t see how people get used to being away from their kids.”
Given the transient nature of the CFL, players from all over the U.S. and Canada are away from their families for extended periods of time. Bryant’s family is in Oklahoma. Immediately after Sunday’s practice, the 32-yearold Stampeders receiver rushed to his iPhone to FaceTime his threeyear-old daughter Shiloh. “She knows I’m gone,” he said. “But, she’s only three, so you say something about McDonald’s and it takes her attention off it so she’s back happy again.”
Quarterback Kevin Glenn, a father to three-year-old son Kaleb and two-monthold daughter Dylan who are back at his home in Detroit, knows the feeling.
“It doesn’t get easier,” said the 33-year-old who spent the last three seasons in Hamilton before coming to Calgary in the off-season trade of quarterback Henry Burris. “And as they get older, they start to realize. I FaceTime a lot and, my son, he’s like, ‘Daddy, where you at? Come back home.’
“But I have to explain to him I’m at work right now and in due time, they’ll be up to see me.
“Sometimes, it’s a touchy situation but you have to be an adult and parent about it because this is my livelihood and this is how I take care of my family.”