Russell Wilson sends emotional message on late dad’s birthday

Ron Chenoy-Imagn ImagesRussell Wilson sends emotional message on late dad’s birthday appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Russell Wilson shared a touching message in honor of his late father’s birthday.“I miss you Dad. Happy Birthday 🕊️🕊️🕊️,” Wilson wrote on X.Wilson’s father, Harrison Wilson III, died in 2010 at the age of 55 due to complications from diabetes. Today would have been his 71st birthday.Watch sports LIVE with fuboTV (free trial)In 2015, the Super Bowl champion shared how much his father meant to him in a letter to the Player’s Tribune for Father’s Day and how he supported him in his early days in football before he graced an NFL field. He recalled the time he was the coach for his YMCA basketball team.“We were the Lakers,” Wilson wrote of the youth basketball team. “We ended up winning the championship, and I just remember how he was smiling from ear to ear as all the kids were jumping around like we just won an NBA title.”Wilson also played baseball alongside Pop Warner growing up, and shared that his dad loved to sing while on road trips to his games and practices. Since his father died in 2010, he didn’t get to see him win his Super Bowl championship in 2014 as the Seattle Seahawks quarterback. The retired NFL star looked up to his father and was determined to replicate the kind of dad he was to his own kids in the future. “I know that I will have a big family one day, and if I can be 1/16th of the dad my father was to me, I know I will be an unbelievable dad,” he wrote at the time. “I will try to motivate my kids the way he motivated me and teach them that they can really, truly do anything.”Wilson is now a father of four with one on the way with wife Ciara. The couple announced they were expecting their fifth child together in September. The retired NFL star and singer share: Future Zahir Wilburn (Ciara’s son from a previous relationship with rapper Future), Sienna Princess Wilson, Win Harrison Wilson, and Amora Princess Wilson.View this post on Instagram“People ask me all the time, “Russell, if you could do one thing in the world, what would it be?” Wilson wrote to Player’s Tribune at the time. “I’ve been blessed to be able to do a lot of fun and amazing things in my 26 years on this earth, but the one thing I wish I could do above all else is to see my father smile again.”Related: Bill Belichick’s ex Jordon Hudson files lawsuit over infamous shirtless 2023 Ring camera videoRelated: Dianna Russini reveals 5 a.m. texts from NFL player amid support around league that includes ‘star QBs’