Eddie Betts says birth of his twin daughters proved a natural high in Adelaide’s win over St Kilda
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TWO kids, three goals - Eddie Betts is still processing the ‘natural high’ of football’s feelgood story that saw Adelaide’s superstar watching the birth of his twin daughters on FaceTime.
Betts, dad to sons Billy and Lewis, watched the birth on his phone in the lobby of Adelaide’s Melbourne hotel on Saturday just hours before the clash with St Kilda at Etihad Stadium.
“I was sitting in the hotel room, going to get some water and Anna called me, told me her water had broken. I started to freak out, started looking at flights,” said Betts.
“It wasn’t the way we planned it.
“I went to lobby to get the strongest Wi-Fi as I wasn’t going to make it back in time, said let’s Face Time. It was a spur of the moment thing, using the doctor’s phone in the theatre.
“I ended up watching the whole lot on the phone.
“Both of them are doing really well, out of the incubator. Mum is up and walking which is good, looking at three or four more days in hospital and we can bring them home.”
Betts had been goalless for the season going into the clash but booted three majors against the Saints. The game’s premier small forward said confronting the Saints with the knowledge his twins had arrived and were well proved a major fillip entering the prime-time clash.
“It wasn’t really hard to play it would have been harder if they had’t been born yet and Anna was in labour,” Betts told Radio FIVAaa
“That would have been playing on my head the whole game. To know they were out, healthy, with Mum and friends I was just happy they were healthy. I could let the boys know. It was a natural high going into the game.”
Betts entered the season having won his third All Australian jumper and topping Adelaide’s goal tally for four consecutive years. However, the Crows cult figure felt strange not having not kicked a goal this campaign.
“It was actually good to get on the scoreboard, it felt a bit weird not kicking a goals to be honest. I didn’t feel like I was out of rhythm but just wasn’t kicking goals,” said Betts.
Betts joked Mitch McGovern and the Crows young bucks were reticent to bring their partners near the West Lakes clubrooms given the baby boom ‘in the air’.
Josh Jenkins, Tom Lynch, Andy Otten, Sam Jacobs are Rory Sloane are set to become fathers this year.