Clint Bowyer talks about fatherhood as only Clint Bowyer can
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Sometimes you never know what Clint Bowyer is going to say. Earlier this week, Bowyer's wife gave birth to Cash, the couple's first child.
Bowyer was incredibly excited to talk about Cash's arrival and described the birth of a child as no other driver in the Sprint Cup Series genuinely could.
"What a wild experience – all your friends and family, peers and everybody is trying to warn you and tell you that it's going to change your life. You're like, 'There's no way.' Then all of the sudden that little gremlin comes out of there and you're like, 'Oh my God, this is real.'"
"I was probably not the norm as far as spectator in an event like that. In the room there I was high-fiving people and I was kind of pushing the doctor out of the way at one point because I was trying to get a better view of him coming into the world. Of course the nurses are trying to hold me back and they're like, 'You can't get that close.' I'm like, 'Get the hell out of my way, here he comes.' It was a lot of fun. We were all laughing. An amazing experience."
You can totally see Bowyer acting that way in the delivery room, can't you? And yes, there's more and it includes an auto racing reference.
"He's running really good during the day – you think this is way too easy, this is no problem at all. Then his engine drastically takes a turn for the worst about the time you're trying to go to sleep (in the hospital)on that really comfortable couch over in the corner that's about this wide and basically like sleeping right here on this tabletop, he starts really screaming very loud. The nurses tend to come in to do paperwork at 3:00 AM, which is really handy. They want to ask you about your education and things like that and you're like, 'Lady, can we wait until daylight maybe – that would be a good goal,' – 3:00 a.m. is not a good time in the morning to be talking to me with him screaming, her pissed and now I am. It's been a wild deal and Cash is awesome."
Bowyer hasn't won a race in almost two years. Kansas Speedway would be a nice place to get a win; it's about 90 minutes northeast of Bowyer's hometown of Emporia, Kan. Carl Edwards grew up two hours east of Kansas City in Columbia, Mo., and Jamie McMurray is from Joplin, Mo.
Bowyer referenced the great sports week Kansas City is having after Missouri beat South Carolina, the Kansas City Chiefs demolished the New England Patriots and the Royals won two playoff games. Bowyer was watching the wild card game between the Royals and Oakland A's waiting for Cash's arrival.
"The Royals – I was so pissed because I was watching the Royals and I was bummed out, I've got this kid coming and she's (Lorra Bowyer, wife) getting tired and I'm tired he's being a little grouchy and isn't ready to come out yet so I'm like, 'Well damn, I think the Royals are done.' I shut the TV off and we get up at like 4:00 a.m. and everything is going crazy and I don't even know why, but I glance up at the TV and the news is going on and the Royals won. I'm like, 'Honey, you ain't going to believe this, but the Royals won.' Now we're arguing about the Royals winning and they're carting her out the door and I'm like, this is crazy."
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