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In recent days we have been hearing that Antonio Cromartie was able to get his wife pregnant even after having a vasectomy. However, there is a chance that Cromartie did not get a vasectomy. The idea that Cromartie had a vasectomy originally appeared in a book about a reporter's season with the New York Jets. Author Nicolas Dawidoff wrote that Cromartie told him he had gotten a vasectomy. However, Cromartie later appeared on Jay Mohr's sports show and claimed that he had not gotten a vasectomy. Cromartie supposedly responded to Mohr's question about whether he had gotten a vasectomy by saying, Nah, nah, nah. Definitely not. Nah.
I assume the story of a man getting is wife pregnant after a vasectomy even though that man would have a less than one percent chance of getting his wife pregnant is better than the story of a man not getting a vasectomy and then getting his wife pregnant. According to Wikipedia, a 2005 review found that there were only 183 failures out of 43, 642 vasectomies (0.4%) and only sixty pregnancies out of 92,184 vasectomies (0.07%). There is nothing superior about a man's penis/sperm when he gets his wife pregnant after not getting a vasectomy. You get to write headlines saying Cromartie's penis/sperm is unstoppable if he gets his wife pregnant after having a vasectomy.
http://larrybrownsports.com/football/antonio-cromartie-no-vasectomy/211288
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/20/boomer-carton-antonio-cromartie-clears-the-air/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasectomy
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)El Supremo
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I just like great headlines.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)joeybee12
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