But their relationship didn’t last, and they broke up not long after Nikko’s birth.
Despite playing for the Kansas City Chiefs, his native California remained his home.
California is likely where he met Lauren Sanchez, who moved to the Golden State from Albuquerque for college.
But he’s right.
This is what I’ve been playing for my whole career; it’s about winning that ring.
We’re so close, it wouldn’t make any sense not to come back."
But, despite the rumors, Sanchez married Whitesell and they welcomed two children together before divorcing in 2019.
The former NFL star’s representative also denied the Page Six insider’s take.
The reasonthe Albuquerque nativesplit with Whitesell?
At first it was socially at parties … here and there.
“Right from the beginning, I knew I wanted to do ‘Thursday Night Football.’
It was a chance to be part of something new.
That’s the coolest part,” Gonzalez toldForbes.
But he denied that his extended family ties to the billionaire got him the gig.
“No, I wish it was that way.
He has nothing to do with that,” he said.
But Gonzalez’s sports knowledge and experience doesn’t only lie in football.
From 1994 until 1997, he played basketball for the California Golden Bears.
“I could have played in the NBA.
I would have put up 1,000 jump shots a day.
I’ve got that punch in of work ethic,” he toldESPN.
I stay out of their personal lives but it’s been great."
Gonzalez added of their co-parenting arrangement, “It’s great.
Lauren, obviously we share Nikko.
He’s going to college next year, I’m going to miss him.”
Sanchez hasn’t been afraid to gush over her ex, either.
Sanchez has also grown close to Gonzalez’s wife and mother of two of his children, October Gonzalez.
The gang has also been spotted on dinner dates and even vacationed together.
Sanchez spoke to The Wall Street Journal about their bond.
“My greatest example is the relationship I have with my eldest son’s father, Tony …
I learned how to co-parent with him, so I have more experience than Jeff might have.
Tony and his wife [October] are my best friends,” she said.
