Ryan Fitzpatrick is having his cake and eating it too.The 36-year-old quarterback for the Miami Dolphins responded to questions about his noticeable weight gain this week, joking that he was in “peak offseason form.”Reporter Omar Kelly with theSouth FloridaSun-Sentinelposted a clipof the interview on Twitter on Tuesday.“The thing with me is I have seven kids,” Fitzpatrick explained in the video. “In January we have three birthdays. So we’ve got the family birthday party which includes cake, we’ve got the friends’ birthday party which includes cake, so that’s six times in January.”“We’ve got three birthdays in March — March 1, March 6, March 11 — which again, that’s a tough stretch,” he continued. “That’s cake six out of 10 or 11 days. Then we’ve got an April birthday, so it doesn’t slow down.” (Fitzpatrick shares his children with wife Liza Barber.)“But now that the birthdays are behind me, I think I’m going to try and go from peak offseason form to peak in-season form,” he joked.Christian Petersen/GettyLuckily for Fitzpatrick, the official NFL season doesn’tbeginuntil September, with the preseasonstartingin August. This will be the football player’s first season with the Dolphins, whosigned himto a two-year contract in March.Fitzpatrick’s weight gain was first noticed when he stepped out for a workout at the Dolphins’ training facility, according to theWashington Post,and a photo of him running went viral.“When you find out there are donuts in the breakroom,” one Twitter usercaptioned the snap, while anotherwrote, “Feeling an instant kinship with Ryan Fitzpatrick.”
Ryan Fitzpatrick is having his cake and eating it too.
The 36-year-old quarterback for the Miami Dolphins responded to questions about his noticeable weight gain this week, joking that he was in “peak offseason form.”
Reporter Omar Kelly with theSouth FloridaSun-Sentinelposted a clipof the interview on Twitter on Tuesday.
“The thing with me is I have seven kids,” Fitzpatrick explained in the video. “In January we have three birthdays. So we’ve got the family birthday party which includes cake, we’ve got the friends’ birthday party which includes cake, so that’s six times in January.”
“We’ve got three birthdays in March — March 1, March 6, March 11 — which again, that’s a tough stretch,” he continued. “That’s cake six out of 10 or 11 days. Then we’ve got an April birthday, so it doesn’t slow down.” (Fitzpatrick shares his children with wife Liza Barber.)
“But now that the birthdays are behind me, I think I’m going to try and go from peak offseason form to peak in-season form,” he joked.
Christian Petersen/Getty
Luckily for Fitzpatrick, the official NFL season doesn’tbeginuntil September, with the preseasonstartingin August. This will be the football player’s first season with the Dolphins, whosigned himto a two-year contract in March.
Fitzpatrick’s weight gain was first noticed when he stepped out for a workout at the Dolphins’ training facility, according to theWashington Post,and a photo of him running went viral.
“When you find out there are donuts in the breakroom,” one Twitter usercaptioned the snap, while anotherwrote, “Feeling an instant kinship with Ryan Fitzpatrick.”
source: people.com
