Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens has arranged to take leave from training camp and is heading to Paris Monday night to watch his wife Simone Biles compete for the U.S. gymnastics team.
FILE - Then-Green Bay Packers' Jonathan Owens and Simone Biles pose for a photo before an NFL football NFC divisional playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers, Jan. 20, 2024, in Santa Clara, Calif. Chicago Bears safety Owens has arranged to take leave from training camp and is heading to Paris, Monday, July 29, 2024, to watch his wife Biles compete for the U.S. gymnastics team. – Most NFL players wouldn’t take five days off during the peak of job battles at training camp.
“It was something me and my agent talked about when we went in and I signed with the team,” said Owens, who signed with the Bears after a season with Green Bay. “The Olympics coming up and who my wife is, that was just something ... it was all respectful. We went to them and just asked, ‘We would really appreciate it if he could go and support his wife,’ and they were really cool about it.
If Biles medals, it will be the third straight Summer Games in which a Bears player's family member won a medal. In 2021, Robert Quinn's sister Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won gold in the 100-meter hurdles for Puerto Rico. In 2016, Corey Cogdell-Unrein, the wife of Bears defensive end Mitch Unrein, won bronze in women's trap shooting.“Just because we respect the Olympics,” Eberflus said. “That is a big deal. And he’s just supporting the one he loves the most.
“Guys are just being super supportive, you know?” Owens said. “It’s super dope. They’re asking, bring some souvenirs back. That’s what they’re asking.” Instead of waking up to watch his wife in the Olympics like last time, he plans to watch the Bears in the Hall of Fame Game on Aug. 1 at Canton, Ohio, against Houston.“Oh absolutely, because it’s the person you love most and you see them up there in a position where someone could get hurt, and you know, you care about her, so it’s always super nerve-wracking,” he said. “Let’s say I’m on the field and she sees me hit somebody, or take a hard hit, or something. It’s like a gasp of air.
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