AP story on Waller

[swampsting]

Doesn't mention his time at Tech, other than that he played at GT.
Also curiously doesn't mention his connection to jazz great Fats Waller, even though it gets into DW's new music venture.
But it's at least something on one of our former players who has had to overcome a lot to make it in the NFL.

Darren Waller's journey to NFL success included obstacles

Darren Waller had just returned from his honeymoon with Las Vegas Aces star Kelsey Plum when the Raiders traded him across the country to the New York Giants.

apnews.com

 

[RoanokeJacket]

Keep track of his kids since he married a pro athlete.

 

[1990wspjacket]

Can we offer babies schollays?

 

[gtfan088]

Keep track of his kids since he married a pro athlete.

Forget the kids. Does she have any eligibility left?

 

[1982Jacket]

Forget the kids. Does she have any eligibility left?

DAYUM! I wanna have her babies.

 

[WracerX]

DAYUM! I wanna have her babies.

Yeah, but they will be lefty mutants.

 

[gt9589]

 

[RoanokeJacket]

They are probably going to be like ED McCaffrey and his wife, who was also an athlete of some note, forgot in what. They had Christian obviously and their other kids were athletes on the collegiate level.

 

[justafan]

Waller is married to Kelsey Plum??? GOOD LORD. We need to start recruiting at the zygote level

 

[clapper]

They are probably going to be like ED McCaffrey and his wife, who was also an athlete of some note, forgot in what. They had Christian obviously and their other kids were athletes on the collegiate level.

Ed's wife was a soccer player for Stanford. Her father, Dave Sime, was ACC Athlete of the Year in '56, held the record for the 100 in the 50's, earned a silver medal in the 100M sprint in the Mexico City Olympics and was named Duke's Most Outstanding Athlete of the 20th Century. And he wasn't even competing in Track until he came to Duke, where they found him on the baseball team.

 

[RoanokeJacket]

Thanks, I didn't remember the lineage exactly, just knew it is outstanding.

 

[1982Jacket]

Ed's wife was a soccer player for Stanford. Her father, Dave Sime, was ACC Athlete of the Year in '56, held the record for the 100 in the 50's, earned a silver medal in the 100M sprint in the Mexico City Olympics and was named Duke's Most Outstanding Athlete of the 20th Century. And he wasn't even competing in Track until he came to Duke, where they found him on the baseball team.

Almost.

1968 in Mejico City . . . Jim Hines was the first man to break 10 seconds in the 100 meters and set the world record which would stand for 15 years. Silver was won by some dude who technically competed for Barbados or Jamaica (?) but who actually lived, trained and competed in the US . . . I think for pretty much his entire life.

Sime won the silver at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Also, Ed's brother is Billy McCaffrey played hoops at Dook on its 1991 Championship team. He scored 16 points in the title game, before transferring to Vanderbilt at a time when Vanderbilt had a good hoops program. He was a two-time All-American at Vanderbilt, and I remember watching him play. He was good.

The althetic genes in that family are something special.