Rams’ Andrew Whitworth Reacts To Viral Image Of Daughter Katherine Reading In Super Bowl Stands

Andrew Whitworth, offensive tackle for the Los Angeles Rams, has no hard feelings that his youngest daughter, Katherine, wasn’t paying the most attention to his team’s close 23-20 victory against the Cincinnati Bengals on Super Bowl Sunday.

Whitworth’s entire family was in attendance for the game at So-Fi stadium in Los Angeles, and all of his children were wearing his jersey number, 77, in support. While most of the family seemed engaged by NFL’s 2021 Man of the Year and his team’s performance, the 7-year-old Katherine was seen reading a book and looking unbothered in a photo shared online.

Whitworth joked about the photo in an interview with Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb for Today. He cracked that Katherine was “the fourth one, and you know, the hardest one. That’s her.”

“She’s so cool,” Whitworth proudly added. “She’s just her in every moment, and that’s what makes her special. You know what? It’s that fourth one that’s just the strongest, the toughest and who-she-is the most, out of all of them.”

In a later appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Whitworth said, “she was reading the NFL program,” in the viral shot. He also recounted a humorous anecdote that Katherine wasn’t even that excited for him as he was leaving for the big game. “I like tried to look for her, and she’s like watching something on Netflix. She’s like, ‘Alright dad, bye. Just go to the Super Bowl.'”

Despite her boredom on camera, Whitworth told DeGeneres that the Monday after the game, she wore her Rams jersey to school and was “the happiest little thing in the world.

Now that Tom Brady has retired, Whitworth is the oldest player in the NFL, and the oldest tackle in the league’s entire history. Whitworth has not confirmed whether he would be retiring after this season but told Today it would be “a special way to go out,” if he retired after winning both the Superbowl and Man of the Year honors in the same year.