GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Thanks to his dad, Stanford linebacker Blake Martinez was prepared to be drafted by the Green Bay Packers ... and the other 31 teams.
Thatâs how he was able to don a Packers shirt and hat after general manager Ted Thompson picked him in the fourth round on Saturday.
It turned out, thanks to Marc Martinez, his son would be ready for whichever team picked him.
âMy dad actually bought every hat he could possibly find from all 32 teams just in case -- and shirts,â Martinez said on a conference call with reporters at Lambeau Field shortly after he was picked. âSo he was ready.â
If Marc would have listened to his wife, Carissa, he could have saved some money.
âMy mom, the funny part of it was, she was always telling me throughout the process, she was like, âI believe youâre going to end up at the Packers,ââ Martinez said. âAnd obviously it was just a lucky guess type of thing, but itâs just funny. My mom said right after, âMoms are always right.â Iâll take it.â
No word on what the Marc Martinez plans to do with the other 31 shirts and hats.