"After all, it turned out to fit their child better than anyone could have imagined. In the two decades since, Gideon ESPN Lampron has lived up to his sporty middle name. A talented athlete who played football and ran track in high school, Lampron is a starting linebacker for the Bowling Green State University Falcons. Most recently, he was named his conference's Defensive Player of the Week."
"In an interview with TODAY.com, Gideon recalls with a laugh how his mother, Jenn, was still groggy from childbirth, when his father, Marty, seized his official paperwork at the hospital. "He's totally obsessed with sports and played everything he could growing up," Gideon, 21, tells TODAY. "So I guess my mom was really out of it, and he just took the opportunity to sneak it in and give me the middle name ESPN.""
"Marty, 56, tells it this way: "She was sleeping, and I went ahead and wrote down ESPN,'" he recalls. "The nurse looked at me like I'd lost my mind. Then said the doctor walked in and said, 'Your wife is going to kill you.' And I told him, 'She'll get over it!'" He was right. Jenn acknowledges that while she was "pretty mad at the time," the name ultimately suits her son."
When Gideon was born in 2004, his sports-obsessed father secretly wrote ESPN as his middle name on the birth certificate while his mother was groggy after childbirth. The Social Security card listed ESPN in all caps, surprising his mother who had preferred the name Xavier. Gideon pronounces ESPN like the television network. He played football and ran track in high school. He is a starting linebacker at Bowling Green State University and was recently named his conference's Defensive Player of the Week. His parents now accept that the unusual middle name fits his athletic identity.
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