Inside the Simms family drama that led to Phils wife, daughter blocking Abdul Carter jersey move
Chris Simms had already tipped off the social team at NBC and Pro Football Talk with the potential scoop.A recent phone call with his father had him expecting his father would make good on his comments that he would be open to letting Abdul Carter wear his retired No.11 jersey.Then came a call from his sister, Deirdre, whom he told he would be fine with his father doing so.Wrong response.“(She said) ‘I thought you were going to be on my side, how dare you.
Forget it, I don’t want to talk to you and we’re hanging up,” Chris said on “PFT Live with Mike Florio” on Monday.“That’s when I knew, uh-oh, mom and sister have gotten involved here.And mom and sister have one more vote than me and brother (Matt), and I don’t know where my brother stands on this.”Phil asked if his son could help change his mother’s and sister’s vote, but ultimately, the Simms women won the battle, and No.
11 will remain in the rafters at MetLife Stadium.Carter, after being turned down by Lawrence Taylor and now Simms, will continue his quest to find his jersey number for his rookie season.“I knew they threw a fit.I think it’s going to the point where literally there was like, they were shedding tears.
I’m not trying to embarrass my mom or my sister, but that’s how important it was to them,” Chris said.“And on top of that, the blowback off of that and the amount of people that came to my dad, ‘Don’t give your number up, don’t do that,’ I think he was a little taken aback by that.
Ultimately, he’s not going to do it, he got outvoted by his family, specifically his daughter and his wife, but that’s where it stands right now.”The Simms-Carter saga began when Phil mentioned on FanDuel TV that he thought it would be fine if he gave Carter his No.11 jersey, and he would have no problem with doing so.Carter wore No.
11 while starring at Penn State.Chris said he told his father he would have no problem with him doing so, but advised him to call Tayl...