I received the following email regarding Kurt Warner’s love life:

KURTIS THE STOCK BOY
AND
BRENDA THE CHECKOUT GIRL


In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice
came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register 4. Kurtis was
almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the
call. As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile caught his eye, the
new check-out girl was beautiful. She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was
only 22) and he fell in love.

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find
out her name. She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card
and punched out, then left. He looked at her card, BRENDA. He walked out only
to see her start walking up the road. Next day, he waited outside as she left
the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she
accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again,
outside of work. She simply said it wasn’t possible.

He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn’t afford a
baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter. Reluctantly she accepted
his offer for a date for the following Saturday. That Saturday night he arrived
at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him. The
baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, “Well,
let’s take the kids with us.”

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not
taking no for an answer, he pressed. Finally Brenda, brought him inside to meet
her children. She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis
thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair. He was born a
paraplegic with Down Syndrome.

Kurtis asked Brenda, “I still don’t understand why the kids can’t
come with us?” Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman
with two kids, especially if one had disabilities – just like her first husband
and father of her children had done. Kurtis was not ordinary – - – he had a
different mindset.

That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the
movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him. When he
needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his wheelchair, took him and
brought him back. The kids loved Kurtis. At the end of the evening, Brenda
knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life
with.

A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children.
Since then they have added two more kids.

So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the check-out girl? Well,
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona , where he is currently employed
as the quarterback of the National Football League Arizona Cardinals and has his
Cardinals in the Super Bowl. Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary person.

It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI. He has also been the NLF’s Most Valuable Player twice and the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player.

My GF (who sent me the email) asked if it was true, and then I just started ranting and raving about Kurt Warner because a) some of the stuff isn’t true, indeed the real story is probably more inspiring, and b) I love Kurt Warner. I believe his was the greatest story in the history of sports BEFORE he historically took the Arizona Cardinals to their first SB in franchise history. And now he’s simply cemented his place, win or lose, bomb terribly, it matters not to me, as a first ballot hall of famer and future Disney Movie super character. Here’s the email I sent her, I’d usually edit this kind of thing more but the fact is I just get crazy about Kurt Warner. The guy flat out rules and has an inspiring story:

Some is, some isn’t. The real story is much more inspiring, which is strange, because there’s no need to fake facts in this story. Kurt Warner did, in fact, marry a woman with two kids, one of them with disabilities. They didn’t meet while working at a grocery store. They met in a bar in ‘92, when he was a Northern Iowa QB. They wed more than one year later. Her son wasn’t born disabled, but was in fact dropped on his head by his father, Brenda’s ex-husband and had brain damage as a result. He was also blind. It was unlikely that he would recover, ever, but now he has at least partially gained the ability to read and write. It’s a pretty incredible story, the kid is named Zachary. After Kurt married Brenda he formally adopted both kids. Brenda is a clown car, as the two have had 5 kids of their own, now totalling 7.

The dropping of the kid is what ended the original marriage between Brenda and the birth father.

Kurt Warner had one of the most difficult NFL histories of any player, period, and certainly of any player that ended up being League MVP and Super Bowl MVP and, as far as I’m concerned, a first ballot hall of famer. His is, without question, the single greatest sports story in the history of football, and probably the single greatest overcoming adversity story in the history of sports. He attained success at the NFL level appreciated by peers numbering only in the dozens, perhaps less, and he got there under far more unusual circumstances than any of them. He was a stocker at a grocery store. He missed out on an opportunity to play in 1997 because… a fricking spider bit his elbow and injured him. Kurt Warner wasn’t drafted. His early NFL career (starting in ‘94, he as a nobody until ’99 — 5 years is an ETERNITY in professional football) looks everything like Kliff Kingsbury and nothing like Peyton Manning. It would be like us waking up, the year is 2010, and Taurean Henderson was the league MVP, the super bowl MVP, and set the all time record for most rushing TDs in a single career. AND if Taurean Henderson wasn’t a criminal and a bad person.

Warner found Jesus in like ‘96, which isn’t much interest to most sports types, but it has meant that he’s kept himself out of trouble and been a spectacular father and human being. He usually gets, at best, short shrift among the media for being devoutly Christian and moral. At worst he gets derided for it, because that kind of thing doesn’t sell newspapers as well as whipping out your junk in the lockerroom, as I’m learning Cowboys legend Charles Haley loved to do. I think it was around 2003, when Warner’s career was taking its 2nd nose dive, it was pretty normal for some of the meaner talk radio and even ESPN personalities to openly mock Warner and the fact that he consulted a bible prior to games, as if that’s the kind of thing that should be lamented. Skip Bayliss or some other similar jerk once called his wife ugly after seeing her for the first time, and that always rubbed me the wrong way. She is ugly. But so what? Guy marries a woman in 1997, becomes this incredibly famous world class athlete two years later and, instead of ditching her like so many sports figures, not only sticks it out with her and her disabled son, but makes 5 babies with her.

This will be a Disney Movie one day. Kurt Warner went from a grocery stocker to Super Bowl MVP in a year. He was unquestionably the best QB in the league for 2 years and was a Fantasy Football Monster for that same period. He then had ANOTHER setback and collapse in his career (despite being called by Mike Martz, who knows something about QBs, the most accurate passer in history) in New York, when he was benched for Eli Manning after a 6 fumble game. People had written him off, in much the same way people did at the beginning of his career. Then, bam, after humbly accepting his role as a backup (just as he had behind Trent Green a decade earlier in St. Louis) in a riches→rags story, he wins back the starting job from highly drafted QB and playboy and immoral Matt Leinart, and then takes the Arizona Cardinals to their first Super Bowl in franchise history. This has been one of the historically worst franchises in league history, having been in the league since 1920 and, so far as I can tell, never with a championship. They’ve never even been to the SB.

GREATEST STORY IN SPORTS, EVER = KURT WARNER with no question. He spent the bulk of his career as a punchline, people never knew about him at first and then quickly forgot all he did for the Rams. No matter what this dude does he will probably never be compared to greats like Joe Montana, future greats like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady, despite having a higher YPA than all of them and a higher career completion % than all of them, and a higher QB rating than either Montana or Brady. And none of those players can claim, indeed the list of QBs who can claim as much is TINY, that they took two teams to the Super Bowl.

What did he do? The year before he started in St. Louis they went 4-12 with bum Tony Banks at the helm. The following year they won the Super Bowl, and that’s Kurt Warner.
No one in the entire universe of football gave the Cardinals a snowball’s chance in hell at making the Super Bowl this year. Kurt Warner really did the impossible, and one day we’re going to rent and enjoy immensely the Kurt Warner story, which truly is the greatest in sports’ history. It doesn’t hurt that he turned out to be a phenomenal human being as well, despite being criticized through large portions of his career for not being a typically evil and immoral NFL player.

I think it’s great that he isn’t out being stupid like a lot of NFL stars. More Power to him and it should make us all want to look into the Bible and see what it has to say.

Fox has the stubble/age thing right, but he’s kind of lame.

it was pretty normal for some of the meaner talk radio and even ESPN personalities to openly mock Warner and the fact that he consulted a bible prior to games

Kurt was blamed for the Rams doing poorly. Went something like this: “If he spent as much time studying his playbook as he does the Bible…” I don’t recall who said it, though.

Skip Bayliss or some other similar jerk once called his wife ugly after seeing her for the first time, and that always rubbed me the wrong way. She is ugly. But so what?

Isn’t she also a former Marine?

And none of those players can claim, indeed the list of QBs who can claim as much is TINY, that they took two teams to the Super Bowl.

Damned right it’s tiny; it’s a table for two: Craig Morton and Kurt Warner — and Morton only played in two Super Bowls in total, as opposed to Warner’s three.

Good to see you around these parts, Skin Patrol!

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