It would be understandable if the Super Bowl were marked on the Timmerman family calendar every year. Just as a reminder.
It’s become something of a family event–sometimes you can make it, sometimes you can’t.
“I have very few family coming down this year,” said Rams guard Adam Timmerman. “Just my brother and his wife.”
Normally, players have to scramble to fill relatives’ requests for Super Bowl tickets. For the Timmermans, the Super Bowl is not a must-do event anymore. After all, Timmerman is preparing for his fourth Super Bowl in six years.
Not bad for a guy who was Green Bay’s seventh-round draft choice out of South Dakota State in 1995.
“To be in the league seven years and go to four Super Bowls is just incredible,” Timmerman said.
Timmerman went to his first Super Bowl after the 1996 season, his first as a starter with the Packers. Back then it was a popular family event. Ten family members made the trip to New Orleans to see Timmerman and the Packers beat the Patriots.
The family kept coming the following year when the Packers lost to the Broncos in San Diego.
Timmerman moved to the Rams as a free agent before the 1999 season, just in time to block for two other new Rams, Marshall Faulk and Kurt Warner. The Rams beat Tennessee in the Super Bowl in Atlanta, and Timmerman became one of 35 players to win Super Bowls with two teams.
This year marks a return trip to New Orleans for the family. Been there, done that. Except for brother Kent and sister-in-law Tasha, the family is staying home in Cherokee, Iowa.
“Every time the come to the Super Bowl, it seems like there’s a problem,” he said. “Two years ago there was an ice storm [in Atlanta]. For the game in San Diego, something happened to the plane and they got in real late. There’s always been some kind of glitch.
“This year they said, `We’re going to stay home and watch it on TV.'”
Timmerman is not offended.
“Most of them have done it three times,” he said. “My brother and his wife are coming down, and he’s made every one of them.
“This year everyone else said. `We’d like to make it, but it’s just not going to work out.'”
