Jon Rahm has spoken many times about training with other athletes like JJ Watt, Zach Ertz and Michael Phelps, who, like Rahm, all call Arizona home. However, their relationship isn’t limited to the weight room.
This quartet of superstars also hang out together. Just like wives, as evidenced by Rahm’s latest Instagram post. The group gathered to celebrate Rahm and Ertz’s birthday, the former turning 29 and the latter 33. “I encourage you to guess what the topic of conversation was,” Rahm wrote in his caption:
As Watt also wrote on Twitter, “all sports were insulted equally at the table tonight.” We are happy to know that they would discuss the exact same topics as us, like who is the best athlete in their respective sport, which sport is hardest on the body, which is hardest on the mind, and who would win in a Rahms/Watts versus Ertzs/Phelps match in a 4v4 basketball match. OK, so that last one was probably just something I was thinking about, but you get the point.
All joking aside, you’d be hard-pressed if you did an actual power ranking of all the athletes in this photo. If we’re going strictly on accomplishments, Phelps is an easy No. 1, but it gets very difficult from there. Rahm has two majors, while Watt is a three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Ertz’s wife, Julie, was a member of the United States women’s national team during the 2015 World Cup, while Watt’s wife, Kealia, won a national championship in 2012 as part of the North Carolina women’s soccer team. And don’t be fooled by Rahm’s wife, Kelley, who threw the javelin at Arizona State and can absolutely slang a soccer ball. The only non-athlete is Phelps’ wife, Nicole Johnson, who happened to be Miss California USA in 2010. What a list of humans.
