Ryan Kerrigan
Credit: Washington Redskins
That 3,100 square-foot Cape Cod beach pad
on the other coast might eventually house
their family, but right now, “we got the
place there because we wanted to have a
little escape place, and it’s home to her —
Newport Beach — but it’s a vacation spot to
me. So we wanted to be able to have a place
we can go to that’s not only a vacation spot,
but also a place where she can be around
her family, because she is far from her family
being out here,” he adds.
The couple’s main residence is in suburban
Virginia, where Mazura — a former collegiate
soccer player at the University of California
at Berkeley — now works as a veterinary
nurse. The rest of their family consists of
Franklin and George, two English bulldogs
who actually have their own Instagram page
(@franklin.and.george). And as Ryan tells it,
they were an important part of why he chose
Jessica as his wife.
“They’re just — they’re awesome. My wife
had them before she and I met, and so when
I married her, it wasn’t just a one-for-one
deal, it was a one-for-three deal. I got all three
of them,” he says with a grin and a laugh.
“They’re awesome. They make every day so
much better. Just great personalities and such
well-behaved dogs. They make days funnier,
they’re just all around awesome dogs,” who
make a pretty amusing pair of sidekicks to this
real-life Superman and his Lois Lane.
The dogs will have to stay home when the
pair eventually take their honeymoon to
Italy’s Lake Como — something they put off
doing until the 2019 off-season — as Ryan
prepares for the 2018 NFL season. As he also
admits, it is hard to get him on a plane if he’s
not headed to play in an away game. “I guess,
I’m kind of a homebody. I don’t travel too
much,” he reveals. And with his dedicated,
fitness-based food regimen in place for the
foreseeable future, he also admits that they
don’t really go out on the town too much,
either. But when they do head out (usually to
the Reston Town Center), some local winners
are bartaco, The Counter, and Jackson’s,
which “is probably our favorite place.”
Kerrigan, who with his superhero discipline
and ever-growing talent as a superstar
football player probably has close to another
decade of time left in the NFL, does have one
more plan in place for when he eventually
leaves the game. And it does involve travel.
“There’s a lot of places within America that I
still haven’t been, so I’ve got to get going on
that,” he smiles.
FLYWASHINGTON.COM 8 AUTUMN 2018