Are you seriously comparing being a football player to being a Soldier deployed to a combat zone? What are you thinking? At the end of the day, football is a game. War is not. A guy missing a practice or two for the birth of a child is not going to impact the fate of the world one iota. Also, the Army does its best to allow Soldiers to be home for births when possible. If a Soldier's wife is pregnant before the deployment the Soldier will be able to request his R&R coincide with his wife's due date. Obviously if the child is premature there's not much that can be done, though even then Soldiers have been known to trade R&R schedules with each other to get there, if not for the birth, as close to it as possible. Being a football player is just not that important of a job, and the fact that somebody thinks it is shows just how out of whack Americans' priorities are these days.
