/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/59589609/usa_today_10551802.0.jpg)
In their fifth round draft pick Jamarco Jones, the Seattle Seahawks added another player with a championship pedigree. With Ohio State from 2014 to 2017 left tackle Jamarco Jones collected two Big Ten titles and a national championship. However, courtesy of Jones’s mother Urica, we also know Jamarco’s experience bringing rings goes even farther back:
Throwback to when Happy Jamarco was a professional Ring Bearer #Tbt pic.twitter.com/ktozS4ehMp
— Mz. Jones (@MzUJones) May 11, 2017
And that adorable photo of Jones as a child isn’t the only old school picture Urica has posted. Here’s an image of young Jamarco, who is now 6-foot-5 but appears to have already been about 5-foot-9 in Pop Warner football when he played both sides of the line, about to eclipse the opponents’ entire offense:
TBT @jjones_74 had these little guys running for dear life @CoachJPowell1 pic.twitter.com/PPhAOWz6gO
— Mz. Jones (@MzUJones) September 8, 2016
God DAMN that’s a big boy.
Urica Jones, who as a fellow Buckeyes mom is good friends with Twitter celebrity Annie Apple—mother of New York Giants cornerback Eli Apple—turns out to be a pretty fantastic follow herself.
Look at her joking about Shaquille O’Neal being Jamarco’s “real dad” in reply to a video of her son dunking:
@jjones_74 @S13Collier Shaq was his real Dad pic.twitter.com/fHlAjQUDKX
— Mz. Jones (@MzUJones) July 1, 2015
In the same theme, she misses those genes her son when it comes time to change a lightbulb:
@ProfessorSWebb I certainly miss him! I can't even reach the blown light bulb on a ladder :( pic.twitter.com/o8CFjNAPmq
— Mz. Jones (@MzUJones) June 25, 2014
But even if Jamarco’s championship provenance didn’t actually come from the four-time NBA Finals winner, Urica Jones may have had an inkling her son was born to be a Seahawk as early as Super Bowl XLVIII. Here she is posting scalding memes on February 2, 2014:
SO wrong! pic.twitter.com/LNSH2S70ye
— Mz. Jones (@MzUJones) February 3, 2014
But sooo right.