Cameron Jordan explains that he wasn’t the only one benefiting from his dad’s weekly workouts as Steve Jordan welcomed anyone to join his routine, which is yet another example of his fatherly support.
“When I was growing up, people used to like love coming to our house on a Saturday cause they knew we’d be going to a park somewhere and we’d be running sprints, we’ll be running routes, if we’re playing basketball we’re shooting shots, we were doing some sort of activity or technique work after we did chores,” he said. “Now, for friends, they’d love to come over and for me, you’d fear Saturday. Like, I just want to play video games. I had been at school Monday through Friday, track practice, football practice, wrestling, trying to join the swim team — all these other extra curriculars — and come Saturday I’m really just trying to chill. And you wake up, sneak some video games, Pops would come down you’d have to clean the living room, do the bathrooms, all this other stuff and then it would be, ‘It’s time to go to the park.’ And it’s not a park in Colorado, or Texas or even Louisiana — it’s Arizona. This is like prime 110 degrees by, you know, May. It’s march and it’s 95 degrees. So we’re in the mid-morning, middle of the day and it’s 110 degrees outside. Where do you want to be? You don’t want to be outside, but here we are.”
Father-son relationships are often the backstory to many NFL careers. From the incredible story of the Manning family to the new generation of NFL talent that includes the Porters, the Warners and even the Belichicks.
As he enters his 13th season in the NFL, Cameron Jordan is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel of his playing career. And he hopes to draw one final inspiration from his father by recently saying he hopes to retire with the team that drafted him in 2011.