Jerry Green, 93, the only sportswriter to cover every Super Bowl, was paying his own way to the Big Game—until a Newsweek story changed all that.
about the only reporter to cover every Super Bowl since its inception, Jerry Green, 93, nabbed a raise, an offer to write for a top sports website and an exclusive interview with L.A. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, competing against the Cincinnati Bengals in the Big Game in Los Angeles this Sunday.
Green, 93, is about to cover his 56th Super Bowl—and possibly his last—all for the Detroit News, where he was on staff from 1963 to 2004. After retirement, the paper continued to send him to the Big Game, but stopped reimbursing him for his travel costs about a decade ago. Green toldhe lost money on the deal but continued to go because he loved covering the game and wanted to keep his unbroken streak alive.
Following the story, readers and fellow journalists expressed outrage on social media that Green had to pay his own way and set up the GoFundMe campaign to raise $5,000 to cover travel, lodging and meal expenses for the sportswriter and his daughter, who travels with him these days. After that,agreed to increase Green's pay per column to cover his travel expenses for his stories about Sunday's championship face-off.
with Stafford, competing in the Super Bowl in his first year with the Rams after playing 12 futile years for the long-hapless Detroit Lions. In thearticle, Green said Stafford was his dream interview but that it was unlikely to happen given how tightly controlled media access is around the game. Publicists for theand the Rams then scrambled to get Stafford on the phone with Green for five minutes on Thursday.
"The last one-on-one Super Bowl [interview] I conducted could have been with the great Coach Vince Lombardi in the aftermath of the First Annual AFL-NFL World Championship—now recognized as Super Bowl I," Green writes in
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