Jon Kitna: Faith, Family and Football

[Bogus Smith]

This was a good story in light of today's football game(s).  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Enjoy the day because we  have a lot to be thankful for.

Jon Kitna: Faith, Family and Football

Jon Kitna was surrounded.

The Detroit Lions quarterback had one person grabbing his neck, another across his shoulders and someone clinging to his legs.

Luckily for Kitna, three of his four young children were piling on him this time and not a 300-pound defensive tackle.

Kitna had been sacked an NFL-high 40 times entering Thursday's game against Green Bay, and that doesn't count the playful hits he takes when his kids treat him like playground equipment in the basement of his mansion.

"The truth comes out about his back," quipped backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky, who recently was a guest because Jennifer Kitna cooked up her signature dish of bow-tie pasta with spicy sausage. "He didn't get hurt playing football."

The 35-year-old Kitna also isn't defined by football.

Perhaps as much as any athlete, Kitna wears his faith on his sleeve - and head.

He has worn baseball caps emblazoned with a cross since 1996, when he signed with the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent. Several years ago, while playing in Cincinnati, he started ordering 500 at a time to give away.

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[Dr. Cornelius]

Crazy that a Thanksgiving Day Lions football match-up will actually mean something. I can't remember that ever being the case.

[tmh8286]

Great story, Bogus.  Thanks for directing us to it.