Kenjon Barner stuns his dad with Father's Day gift — Super Bowl bling
Veteran running back Kenjon Barner, now with the Atlanta Falcons, spent five regular season games with the New England Patriots last season.
He wasn’t with the team during their run to another Super Bowl win, and he only totaled 19 carries for 71 yards.
His contribution was small — he was signed for depth while Rex Burkhead was on injured reserve — but the Patriots still acknowledged his role, and this week Barner received a surprise. It was a championship ring, the same massive, diamond-dripping ones the other players on the team received.
The 29-year-old knew just what to do with it.
‘Look at this damn thing!’
Barner put the ring and its case back into the FedEx box they were delivered in and brought them to the home of his father, Gary, for a late Father’s Day celebration.
He recorded his father opening the box, as Kenjon says, “Just a little Father’s Day gift.”
Gary Barner takes out the ring case, and looks toward his son, his mouth open, and then takes out the ring.
“Would you look at this damn thing!,” he exclaims.
His reaction is understandable: The massive rings have over 400 round-cut diamonds and six marquise-cut diamonds, one for each Lombardi trophy the franchise now has, plus 20 sapphires for some color.
His family is why he plays
Kenjon captioned the video, “This means more to me than anything, being able to see the happiness that this stuff brings my Dad means the world to me! This why I do what I do, the joy that my family gets from this game I play, is my why!”
Gary Barner’s hands are shaking and he asks his wife to feel his heart.
“A little something for my daddy,” we hear Kenjon say. “That’s yours.”
A sixth-round pick of the Carolina Panthers in 2013, this was Barner’s second Super Bowl ring. He spent only his rookie season with Carolina before being traded to the Philadelphia Eagles during training camp in 2014.
He was with the Eagles from 2014-16, then signed a free-agent contract with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2017. But the Chargers cut him out of camp that year, and he returned to the Eagles a couple of weeks later after an injury to Darren Sproles.
Barner played in 13 regular season games and all three playoff games as Philadelphia won its first Super Bowl title.
He posted a photo of his father in profile, wearing the Patriots’ and Eagles’ rings, and explained in part all that Gary has done for him.
“My Number 1 inspiration! We made a pact way back in 2004 ‘You do your part, I do mine, What’s mine is yours and what’s yours mine’ we’ve done exactly that!,” Kenjon wrote. “Love you Daddy I could never repay you for everything you have given to me and taught by setting an example on what a father is supposed to look like, be like and do!
“I never had to look for you because You were at every game, every practice, every sport from NJB [National Junior Basketball], AAU, baseball, and football high school and college all the way up until I made to the league! I love you and thank you if I am half the father you are to me to my kids, they have the second greatest father of all time because I have the GREATEST! Love you Daddy.”
Don’t worry — it got a little dusty here too.
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