NFL star's wife reveals unconventional emergency contact decision for daughter's school
As their toddler prepares to start school in Ohio, Diana posted a video on TikTok explaining the difficulty of navigating parenthood while living far from family.
Diana explained: 'My toddler is going to start school next month, and we don't have any family out here where he plays in Ohio.
'And we don't really have friends outside of football just because we get so busy. We have a couple, but they don't live near us, like in the same city, so they live far.'
Without close family or local friends nearby, Diana turned to a reliable, but somewhat unconventional, solution in the Cleveland Browns ' security team.
'I put the Cleveland Browns security number as her emergency contact,' she said in the video.
'I know that in the case where they can't reach me or my husband, they will pick up their phones.
'They will have access to him when I probably won't have access to him, like if he's in a meeting or something.'
In an interview with People magazine following the viral video, Diana said she received messages from both friends and fellow NFL wives praising the idea.
'I do have some friends that have been past teammates here that are now on other teams [who] have mentioned like, 'Oh my gosh, that's such a great idea. I never thought about that,' she said.
'Even some wives that I've never met before but are in the league, they've come to me like, 'Definitely going to do that.''
Diana and Corey Bojorquez share two young daughters. Her family lives in Hawaii, while his parents are based in California, leaving the couple without nearby relatives to help with day-to-day logistics in Ohio.
Bojorquez is entering his fourth season with the Browns and his eighth in the NFL overall. He led the league in total punt yardage and recorded the season's longest punt in 2024.
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