DETROIT — Jerry Inexperienced, a Detroit sports activities author who lined 56 consecutive Tremendous Bowls, has died at 94, The Detroit Information stated Friday.
Inexperienced retired as a columnist on the Information in 2004 however continued to attend the Tremendous Bowl for the newspaper till this 12 months. His streak started with Green Bay‘s 35-10 victory over Kansas City within the first Tremendous Bowl in 1967.
“Jerry Inexperienced is a part of the very cloth of the Tremendous Bowl!” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell instructed the Information in January.
Inexperienced, a local of New York Metropolis, died Thursday night time, the Information reported. He was a sports activities author in Detroit for The Related Press earlier than becoming a member of the Information in 1963.
“I’ve by no means wished to do anything,” Inexperienced stated earlier this 12 months a few profession protecting quite a lot of professional and faculty sports activities.
Information editor and writer Gary Miles stated Inexperienced was an icon.
“And he was unabashedly pleased with the paper, his contributions and his colleagues. He gave us his all and we’ll miss him,” Miles stated.
Earlier than the Tremendous Bowl period, Inexperienced lined the 1957 NFL championship recreation, which was gained by the Detroit Lions. The Lions nonetheless have not performed in a Tremendous Bowl.
“I do not assume I am going to final that lengthy,” Inexperienced jokingly instructed Crain’s Detroit Enterprise in 2019.