Meanwhile, realizing she needed an assist, Laura Jansen texts Dalton’s wife, also named JJ, who played the mom card.
“It gets to be like 8:30, and my JJ was talking to Laura, and they’re like, hey, y’all need to get going. They need to get this thing started,” Dalton recalled. “So, my wife calls me and is like, ‘Hey, there’s something wrong with our son Nash, you’re going to need to get home right now.’ And so, at first I was like, OK, is something really wrong with Nash? But really, that was her way of being, like, hey, get out of there.
“So then I look at Luke, say hey, Nash is going through something, so I’ve got to go.”
When you go out with dads, this is always a risk.
“I mean, I don’t have kids, I don’t know?” Kuechly said later with a shrug.
But in that moment, Kuechly was out with friends and relaxing, and started to wonder why everyone was a little off.
“I started to leave, and Luke’s like, are we not going to get dessert for JJ’s birthday?” Dalton laughed. “And JJ’s like, no, I’m good, I don’t need anything. That should have been a sign.”
“I was like, that’s kind of lame,” Kuechly said. “Like, it’s your birthday, man. You just turned 40. Let’s have some dessert here. And then, JJ’s just like, oh, you know, I need to get home. Well, we’ll just stop and get something on the way home, and he didn’t want to do that either, so I ended up dropping JJ off and just kinda being like, well, that was abnormal. I’ve never had a dinner with JJ that was that quick, you know. So, I’m like, whatever. I don’t know.”
It was not the last time things seemed a little off.
