His brother, actor Omar Gooding, also played a football star in the 2003 ESPN series Playmakers… His father, Cuba Gooding, Sr., sang lead for the pop group The Main Ingredient; their big hit (1972) was “Everybody Plays the Fool”… Cuba Gooding, Jr. has two sons: Spencer (b. 1993) and Mason (b. 1996)… Gooding’s exuberant Oscar acceptance speech featured him shouting, “Tom Cruise, I love you brother, I love you man… Everybody who’s involved with this, I love you, I love you!”