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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/it_st_and_children_cAHiqjbppalBGBdCuBwGpM#ixzz1sFn5czPf

Fix the scoreboard: Now it’s 10 kids from eight women in six states.

Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie, 27, recently had his second child with wife Terricka, making 10 — one short of a football squad.

Their baby boy, Jagger, joins sister Jurzie — and eight half-siblings from Cromartie baby mamas across the country.

But the happy occasion is mixed with turmoil. His far-flung fatherhood has intrigued a TV production company that wants to create a reality show about the clan “trying to co-exist as a modern family,” a source told The Post.

Most of the moms want to do the show, but “Cro” says no.

The baby mamas he left behind have banded together so their kids can bond with their brothers and sisters in California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey.

The single women can use the extra money to help raise their kids, but they also think it’s important “to document their journey,” the source said. “They want Antonio’s support.”

Cromartie has deflected the plan, blocking any filming of his offspring.

It’s not the kind of spotlight sought by Cromartie, who famously fumbled the names of his brood on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” in 2010 — and even forgot to count one kid.

Once busy playing the field, the fertile footballer has angered his first baby mama by wresting custody of their son, Alonzo, now 7.

“He’s supposedly a role model, but he’s not doing what he should be doing as a father, or as a man,” said mom Rosemita Pierre, of Tallahassee, Fla.

Cromartie defies a court order that allows her to speak with her son three times a week, she charged.

“They don’t answer the phone,” said Pierre, who’s called the cops in Randolph, NJ, to knock on Cromartie’s door. “It’s a hurtful situation — like he’s trying to erase me.”

Cromartie’s marketing and PR rep did not respond to questions.

Pierre, who gets no child support from Cromartie, favors the TV show because she wants her son to know all his half-siblings.

So does Ryan Ross, a hotel employee in Los Angeles, who met Cromartie at a San Diego nightclub, dated him about six months, and delivered his fifth child, son Tyler Jae, now 4.

Ross first encountered another Cromartie baby mama when she brought newborn Tyler to visit the former-San Diego Charger at his apartment. She ran into Latoya Burley, of Houston, Texas, who was there visiting with daughter Deyjah, her first of two with Cromartie.

They hit it off. Ross now stays in touch with several other Cro baby mamas.

“We’re not catty women. We have a close, tight-knit friendship and understand what each other’s going through. We reach out to share news about the kids, to talk, to vent,” she said.

As for Cromartie, she said, “We co-exist for the sake of my son.”

Cromartie visits LA several months a year and spends time with T.J., she said, but he’s absentee once the Jet football season kicks off.

“I love it,” Ross said of the proposed TV show. “Our kids need to know who their siblings are. It’s bigger than our past with Antonio. It’s about our children.”

Cromartie — who signed a four-year, $32 million contract last fall — pays more than $3,500 a month to each baby mama, except Pierre.

He was sacked as a womanizer and cad by Rhonda Patterson, a corporate lawyer and ex-Miss Black North Carolina. She wrote a memoir, “Love, Intercepted,” telling how Cromartie wooed her, then canceled their wedding a week before the event and dumped her six months pregnant.

Soon after, she learned Cromartie wed Terricka Cason, a model with a child from a prior relationship.

Patterson, whose daughter, London, 3, “is the joy of my life,’’ wants no more to do with the jilting Jet. “That chapter for me has completely closed — talking about Antonio, thinking about Antonio, even caring what’s going on in his personal life,” she said.

But, she added, “I wish him the best. Any time a baby is born, it’s a
blessing.”

Yikes, that's arguably worse than Shawn Kemp.

Shortly after he's done playing football, he'll be in court filing bankruptcy. But he probably won't know why he's bankrupt.

I just hope that he doesn't have HIV or anything. Obviously he doesn't practice birth control at all. He also doesn't seem to be all that choosy about who he has unprotected sex with. That can be a dangerous combination.

(Whatever happened to AIDS anyway? It seems to have melted into the background, and is hardly ever mentioned anymore.)

JC...

I was reading a baby mamas article yesterday and was surprised to learn how prevalent this type of thing is with celebrities and athletes ......well, I guess I'm not really that surprised. Some of the names surprised me though. Marshall Faulk, Ray Lewis, and Clint Eastwood all have like 4-6 kids with the same number of different women. And those are just a few examples.

Crazy.

Yeah, guys like Travis Henry, Calvin Murphy (of Houston Rockets fame) and Scott Skiles simply boggle the mind.

Scott Skiles?!?!? ... wow, didn't expect to hear that name. After I read your post, I googled it. Didn't expect that.

The guys are just idiots (sorry Clint, I still love you), and I bet some of the women think its a ticket to an easy payday.

Yeah, a few years ago I saw an article on it, and of all people, I really didn't expect Skiles. Not sure why#it was such a surprise, but it was.

Also, and this is not condoning it AT ALL, but I don't think any of us can relate to what it's like to have women around willing to do anything. I mean, imagine being 21 or 22 years old, or even younger considering college days, and having access to women at any time.

I'd like to think I'm a smart guy, but I'm not sure I'd have had a ton of control when I was in college. I mean, hell, I was trying my best to get as many women as I could. Luckily for the world, I was absolutely horrible at it, lol.

I knew a local HS basketball player who was pretty good (ended up playing Division I college ball), and there were girls CONSTANTLY around him.

Now, does that mean you can have unprotected sex? Absolutely not. But, you telling me these guys, in the heat of the moment, are thinking about that?

I do remember, though, what the NBA (or maybe NFL) has tried to do to combat this a bit. At the rookie symposium, they had a little mixer for the rookies, and there were all these very attractive women there. They'd hit on the guys, and the guys were guaranteed to "get lucky", but then the handlers would usher the guys to their rooms for the night.

The next morning, in the seminar, the women came in, went on stage, and announced that they had AIDS, or other STDs. A lot of the guys said it was very striking. But, I'm sure that flies out the window when the very next opportunity with a woman presents itself.

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Scott Skiles?!?!? ...

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Oh god.....he reproduced....

j/c....Makes you wonder how many he was with that DIDN'T get knocked up. How many women did Wilt Chamberlain "sleep" with? Thousands upon thousands?

I'm not against fellas making the best of whats available to them, but after 3 or so kids wouldn't an intelligent guy start carrying protection, or get the boys snipped?

My wife and I had 2 kids, then decided that was all we would be able to provide comfortable lives for and that's it. No more.

Delusions of Grandiose.
A terrible disease that strikes all men.

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But the happy occasion is mixed with turmoil. His far-flung fatherhood has intrigued a TV production company that wants to create a reality show about the clan “trying to co-exist as a modern family,” a source told The Post.

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This is what is portrayed as "a modern family" now? One man, 8 women, 10 kids living in 6 states... that's a family?

I smell bankruptcy when his career ends.

I'm upset a TV exec WANTED to portray this jackass in the first place. Why award this loser with more money and fame for being a deadbeat and a terrible father?

I have one daughter....and I don't feel I have enough time in the day to give her everything she needs. How can someone not care about....ugh, just going to stop typing.

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I smell bankruptcy when his career ends.

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I can see a knife & two balls without an owner.....sooooon

"Fathering" is a loosely used term.
I'd say, at best, he's not much more than a sperm donor.

The best thing this guy can do other than stop having children he isn't going to raise is to reach settlements with all of these women now while he has the cash and be done with it.

My take is he is paying 6 different women $3500 a month. That is $756,000 per woman over 18 years. I'd see if a 500K payment, lump sum could end things. 3 mil and out.

What a piece of trash that guy is and without knowing, I'd bet some of the gals aren't any better.

That's the world today Peen, especially in the minority community. I hate to say it, but there are a ton of kids who have absolutely no respect for themselves whatsoever. They literally breed with anyone who will lie down with them, even with no means of supporting those children whatsoever.

It is really, truly sad.

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That seems like a genuinely ignorant statement. Just going by this Cromartie case, you, me and pretty much everyone else knows jack squat about the women, their families, their surroundings or the kids.

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Pretty sure it was a general comment on society since a lot of people who do this, do not now or never will have an NFL income.

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I'm sure Cromartie didn't roll up to a club in his football jersey waving around his ID card yelling "Hey Everyone - I play for the Chargers/Jets - who wants it?!"

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I'd take that bet. I'm sure he didn't keep it a secret that he played in the NFL...

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he probably rolled into a club with a roll of money and did what every guy in the history of time does - try's to get the girl (be it through a number, a date or a hookup)... you mean to tell me you know no one who has never gone after or slept with someone who I'm sure is attractive to them AND has a roll of money? GMAB.

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I know tons of guys (and girls) who have done it, myself included.. with varying degrees of success... not a single one of them fathered 10 kids by 8 different women... every one of them feared getting a girl pregnant (and the girls feared getting pregnant) and took precautions to avoid it, evidently Cromartie and these women feel like they are above the need to do that..... Cromartie, the women.. pick who you want but there is a TON of utter irresponsibility going on here.

However, I do know 1 guy who used to work for me who had 7 kids by 5 different women.

I got the child support form and was stunned ...... because the guy was scrawny, stupid, and ugly. lol I actually had to fire him because he couldn't remember when he was supposed to be at work, and after the 3rd or 4th time I got tired of calling and waiting for him to decide to show up.

I also had several girls working for me who had 2-4 kids all with different fathers.

It's crazy. If the government ever discontinued housing and utility aid, welfare and food stamps, there would be people who would literally just fall over and die. They really don't know, or understand, how to do anything except breed and collect money from others for doing nothing. Some of these kids may work, and work hard, but they will sit home for months on end if they get fired, and will then only try to go find a job when forced to do so.

I actually had one girl who I fired for stealing money out of her register, on tape, call me every month for 6 months on a row asking me if she could come back to work. I had another girl who stole food ask if she could come back .....actually she said that she thought that she might be "ready to come back" ......... like she had been on extended leave or something, and like nothing had happened.

There really is a unique and horrifying mentality that goes along with many people living in the inner cities, who depend upon the government for so called "assistance", but are really on a subsistence program, and who would not be able to live without their aid package. There really is no responsibility, and no one values anything, because they never had to do anything for what they have. It is sad, depressing, and disgusting all wrapped up into one really deplorable package.

Well, if there's one segment of society who we should take their word as gold, it's kindergartners.

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Beyond that ... they simply don't get the use of protection and safety ingrained into them. They get a little talk here or there at school, but no one in their community is urging them to buy condoms or obtain birth control.

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Ingrained into them? I got one talk when I was in 9th grade and my dad said, "You want to play high school sports? Hang out with your friends? Go to college? All of that goes away if you get a girl pregnant. Don't." Done... never mentioned it again.

I think the thing you overlook is that these young girls don't have those kinds of goals and dreams.. they aren't going to college, many of them aren't going to graduate from high school... they know it, so what's the big deal if they have a kid? It's almost like there is a certain status associated with it.

Also, having taught a number of HS girls who were in this boat, many of them just wanted something that was "their's." And, the instant gratification outlook that many of these kids have (I won't be alive in 10 or 15 years, so I might as well have fun now) leads them down this path, too.

Not condoning it. But at least helps explain it a little.

Make that two more kids on the way for Cromartie.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ny_jet_roster_up_to_Xxo8tAcMgqhXaXa5flqxrN

NY Jet’s ‘roster’ up to 12
Cromartie twins

By SUSAN EDELMAN and DAVID K. LI

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Finally, Antonio Cromartie can soon field his own, all-in-the-family football team — with one to boot!

Cromartie’s wife yesterday posted an ultrasound picture of twins, offering an inside peek of the Gang Green star’s 11th and 12th kids, expected in November.

“Identical twins run in my Family,” Cro’s wife, Terricka Cason Cromartie, wrote on her Twitter page, alongside the uterine snapshot.

She earlier tweeted, “Without the lies i’ll tell u anything u want to kno just ask me . . . Ive always been an up front person . . . Oh yea we are expecting twins in Nov.”

She accepted a series of congratulatory tweets from followers.

“I admire my husband n so many ways he never lets anything ppl say affect him he always remains loving& 4giving he always puts it n god hands,” she wrote.

Cromartie — the poster child for prolific, seed-spreading pro athletes — currently has 10 kids with eight different women.

His two youngest kids, boy Jagger and girl Jurzie, are with Terricka.

Cromartie famously fumbled trying to name all his kids — nine of them at the time — during a 2010 chat with HBO’s behind-the-scenes football show “Hard Knocks.”

The Post first reported on Sunday that Cromartie had a 10th kid several months ago, and that he spiked a production company’s proposed reality-TV show about his coast-to-coast paternal commitments.

Cromartie’s baby mamas — almost all single and in need of some monetary Gang Green — have banded together to help their kids get to know their half-brothers and -sisters.

Cromartie’s kids live in California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and with the Jet star and Terricka in New Jersey.

Reps for Cromartie did not immediately return messages seeking comment. A Jet spokesman declined to discuss Cromartie’s off-the-field activities.

The Jets’ famed shut-down corner told Twitter followers that his Jurzie girl turned 2 yesterday.

“Happy Birthday to my beautiful lil Jurzie Blu she turned 2 today and she’s a Heat fan like me check her out,” he wrote, with a picture of the adorable toddler.

Terricka also wished her baby girl birthday wishes on Twitter.

“Two Years ago today i was Blessed with a Beautiful Baby Girl,” she wrote.

“Time sure goes by fast my baby became a Toddler today.”

Cromartie, 28, signed a four-year, $32 million contract last fall.