Philip Rivers is retired from the National Football League and that was probably good and bad news for his wife.
Good news because he can be home more to help with the kids. Bad news because he is home more to make more kids.
On Thursday, the former NFL star quarterback and wife Tiffany announced they will welcome their 10th child in October. Rivers told AL.com at a 7-on-7 event in Daphne that the couple is expecting a boy this fall.
“We’ve had one pretty much every two years and now this is the longest gap,” Rivers said. “We are all fired up. Everyone was pulling for a boy. Even our girls wanted a boy.”
The Rivers currently have seven girls and two boys.
“We thought we would be the third generation of nine, but we decided to go double-digits – or I should we didn’t decide it. God decided,” he said.
The other children range in age from 4 to 21.
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Rivers, who retired from pro football in 2021 after 17 seasons, is now a high school football coach at St. Michael Catholic in Fairhope, Alabama. Philip’s oldest son, Gunner, will be the starting quarterback for St. Michael this season.
Rivers is getting set to open his third season as the coach at St. Michael next month. He is 11-8 in his first two seasons as a head coach.
Rivers played for 17 years before retiring at the end of the 2020 season.
Rivers never won the MVP award and he never earned first-team all-pro honors. In his 17-year NFL career, he has the sixth-most passing yards (63,440) and 421 touchdowns.
