Gifts Keep Coming For Proud Papa Newsom: His Baby Football Team Wins Again!

Justin Page

Was this picture the real inspiration for the name of Gavin Newsom's daughter?

​Mayor Gavin Newsom's Tweet noting that his wife, who just moments before had passed a 7-pound, 12-ounce baby through her body, was not pleased with his constant presence on Twitter was a good sign. There are limits to acceptable dorkiness, and apparently the mayor knows this. That a man who apparently spends a significant chunk of time styling his hair would later Tweet how 72 hours of fatherhood have given him a newfound respect for the burdens of child-rearing could belie that notion, however -- Newsom, of all people, should know that some things don't just fall into place. 

That being said, there's dorkiness and there's dorkiness. So if the mayor's wife was displeased he was Tweeting about their baby girl, imagine how much she'd have taken it if Newsom chose her maternity room as the perfect locale to inform his breathless legions of followers about how splendidly he's doing in fantasy football.

Because he's doing really well!

After outdueling Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums in a tight, high-scoring opening week contest, Newsom needed a big game last night from his starting quarterback, Peyton Manning, to come from behind against Sacramento's Kevin Johnson (yes, the former Phoenix Sun and California Bear). He got it -- and now Newsom is leading the all-Mayors (and one Yahoo cubicle jockey) charity fantasy football league.

Meanwhile, Minnapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak -- who trash-talked both Newsom and Dellums on this very Web site -- is winless and mired in next-to-last place thus far.

Rybak's team is named "Results Minneapolis." What manner of results is not specified.