Ed Werder family article

ferrari77 · Oct 12, 2015

Not sure if this was posted on any of the NFL weekly threads but if not and if you haven't read it, please give it a read. Keep the hankie/kleenex nearby(or be ready to lie to anyone near you that your allergies are acting up).

Hopefully Werder's son-in law and his daughter make it through this time and live for many more years.

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2015/10/07/ed-werder-daughter-christie-family

DENTON, Texas — Ed Werder is usually the one asking the questions.

That’s what the veteran ESPN reporter was doing on a Saturday night in August, on the turf of the Superdome before the Saints hosted the Patriots in an exhibition game. Drew Brees, as he’s done many times during his 15-year NFL career, was opening up to Werder.

This time it was about an issue that threw off course Brees’ 2014 season, an oblique injury that had interfered with the quarterback’s throwing mechanics. Later, Werder would report the news for ESPN.

But at the end of the conversation it was Brees who would ask the toughest question. “How is your family doing?”

Werder hesitated. He wanted to be honest, to a person who had been honest with him, but … How much do you tell him?

“Thanks for asking,” Werder said. “We just got some not so great news.” You probably know Werder from your television, where he reported from the Seahawks locker room after that fateful pass in Super Bowl XLIX; from Brett Favre’s lawn during the great (un)retirement saga; and from any of 31 NFL stadiums on any given Sunday. An NFL insider for ESPN, Werder is a trusted voice who has covered the league for decades.

But just as much as football Sundays are part of Werder’s weekly routine, so are hospital visits and doctor’s appointments. The players Werder covers overcame astronomical odds to make the NFL, but the statistical likelihood of his daughter and her husband together enduring brain surgery and Stage 4 cancer are something in the neighborhood of 1 in 25 million.

Christie Bomar is 31, an inclusion aide at a high school in Denton, Texas, a suburb 40 miles north of Dallas. Trey Bomar is 30, a team leader at Honda Financial Services, near the Cowboys’ Valley Ranch headquarters in Irving. They met six years ago, after each heard the same radio ad for a Christian dating website. They share a 70-pound mutt named Boo (“still a lap dog,” Trey insists); a newly built one-story home; a last name. And they share formidable health concerns. During the three years they have been married, Christie’s battle has been to relearn how to walk, talk and use the right side of her body. Trey is fighting for his life, against a cancer that continues to grow despite 27 rounds of chemotherapy.

If you’re one of Werder’s more than 150,000 followers on Twitter, you may have seen his tweets about Christie and Trey. At first it was an outlet for Werder, a way to pass hours spent hoping for good news in lonely hospital wings. But so many people have responded that Werder feels an obligation to update them on Christie and Trey’s progress—fellow journalists, PR directors around the NFL, players, complete strangers.

On any given day, Werder’s @-mentions on Twitter are a mix of those offering encouragement to his family and trolls who take issue with his latest tweet about the NFL. Back in August, Werder used social media to stand up for ESPN colleague Chris Mortensen’s Deflategate reporting. A Patriots fan pounced. “First of all I hope your entire family contracts HIV,” the person wrote to Werder.

“I think what we actually have is bad enough,” Werder says. “But thanks for that.”
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