Love in the League: These NFL Power Couples Scored More Than A Touchdown With Each Other
Christian Ponder and Samantha Ponder

How to keep things simple yet meaningful? Just ask Christian and Samantha Ponder The former Vikings quarterback messaged Samantha on Twitter and it didn’t take long for them to start dating. Two months later, they got married, and they did it in quite an unexpected way.
First, they drove to Hudson, Wisconsin, where they got married in a courthouse in 2012. Then they celebrated with a meal at Arby’s. They had a formal wedding ceremony in April of that year.

Sports is the passport to glamour and riches, indeed, but as these NFL players will attest, it also opened the door to the most important thing of all: love. Real-life meet cutes turned either into instant, sizzling romance or the hottest slow burn, eventually leading to a wedding ceremony straight out of a fairy tale.
For some, staying in the bubble of their domestic bliss is just perfect. As this list will show, through good times and bad, love endures.
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