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The wife of Jets coach Eric Mangini gave birth to their third son Friday, and his middle name is Brett.
No, it’s no coincidence: Mangini says the middle name of baby Zack Brett Mangini is a tribute to his new quarterback, Brett Favre. Mangini told Favre over the summer that if he came out of retirement to play for the Jets, the Manginis would name their son after him.
“I think he thinks it’s pretty cool,” Mangini said of Favre. “I think the more interesting, ironic, I don’t know what word you’d use, is the fact he was born on Brett’s birthday.”
Brett Favre turned 39 on Friday.
“The odds of the child being born on the same day as my birthday, I don’t know what the odds are,” Favre said. “He told me that today was the day and I asked, ‘Well, is he still going to be Brett?’ He said, ‘Yeah, Zack Brett.’ … The odds, in some respects, are a lot like me. What were the odds of me ever coming to the Jets? It is a pretty cool thing.”
The middle names of Mangini’s other sons are Harrison and William, in honor of Patriots safety Rodney Harrison and Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
Mangini initially wanted to name his son Four, but Mrs. Mangini nixed that idea.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I absolutely love it!!! My son’s name is going to be Brett Lorenzo…now hopefully I have a son someday!
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Don’t count on it
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Great, now Four has lost all its cache!
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I’m no math genius, but maybe the odds are 1 in 365.25.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Actually, given that the odds of the baby being born 365 days after it was conceived is 0, the odds are actually quite a bit larger than that. I’d say about 1/28, given 2 standard deviations of error. That is to say that about 95% of babies are born within 2 weeks of their due date.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I thought we all agreed on Soda???? What happened to Soda?????
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Slightly creepy Mangini.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Should have named him Soda.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
What about the name “Soda?”
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Could this be construed as tampering?
Mangini told Favre over the summer that if he came out of retirement to play for the Jets, the Manginis would name their son after him.
While Favre was retired, his rights were still the property of the Packers and this could be mistaken for a negotiation. There have also been other stories about non-monetary compensation coming into question in the past (a story involving bottles of wine for a kicker who made long field goals comes to mind). Could the Jets be hit with some sort of salary cap charge for this?
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Oh its got cache baby! Its got cache up the ying yang!
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Really?… c’mon… he’s not Jesus. I am little tired of all the Brett Favre love. I think he’s an amazing QB but are we really going to start naming our kids after him. That seems like something that Eric Mangini would do to, I bet he was a “yes” man at New England. What’s next the made-for TV movie of Brett Favre….wait, that’s a million dollar idea (copyright) Hmm…who would play brett? -Tony Danza. {click on my name to see a cool blog}
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I wonder what the odds are that Screaming Sheep has any understanding of the human reproductive system.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
In an urelated item, Mangini says he plans to give birth to Favre’s next child.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
On a related note, Brett was seen leaving the bathroom, when asked what he was doing he replied,” just dropping a Thompson” now thats a tribute…
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Yeah, that’s creepy. Couldn’t they just tatoo each others names on their legs? Oh wait, that’s been done before.
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
RAT JR. WILL BE THE NAME !
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Wanted to name his kid Four? Is Eric Mangini insane?
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October 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
That’s cool that he gives his sons middle names of his heroes. I think I’ll do that too. I can’t wait to have a wife so she can birth me Joseph Diggler Simmons.
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Gotta be a salary cap violation. And at the very least its pretty damn creppy. A little gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I would have to propose the name Seven
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Shoulda named him Brett Favre Mangini.
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Zack Brett Mangini? my god that name is terrible, feel bad for the kid
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Safer middle name than “Henry”. You wouldn’t want kids whose middle name added up to the president with the shortest tenure in the White House, William Henry Harrison.
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Mangini/Tannenbaum:
“Brett, what’s it gonna take? You’ve been out here, Jersey, Upstate NY….you want a house, you got it. Land, you got it. A new truck, tractor, rifle…you got it. Just name you’re price, we’ll find a way.”
Brett Favre:
“Okay, what you said. And from here on out, you have to name all your children after me, and they all have to be born on my birthday, and they have to be males. Make that happen, and I’m a Jet.”
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