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streak, Green is not awash in 
memorabilia ... He lives in a 
one-bedroom apartment in 
an independent living facility 
in Grosse Pointe.” There is a 
photo of Jerry with Joe Namath 
from Super Bowl III and a 
photo with legendary Detroit 
boxing great Joe Louis. “Other 
than that,” Newsweek reported, 
“there’s no clutter of artifacts 
from a career in which he cov-
ered championships by all four 
Detroit teams.” 
What might be lacking in 
physical evidence to observe of 
his incomparable career, there 
are the never-ending stories 
Green still shares that Jenny 
agrees is proof of him having a 
photographic memory. “I told 
him recently I wish it was on 
paper,” of the endless list of 
milestones that have yet to be 
shared in an autobiography. 
“He’s done things and been a 
part of things, talked to people 
that no one else in the world 
has had contact with. He’s 
interviewed Muhammad Ali, 
went to I don’t know how many 
Olympics. He’s covered the 
Indy 500, the Masters. He wrote 
the way he wanted to write, and 
he’s been awarded for it.”
Green was inducted into 
the Michigan Sports Hall 
of Fame in 2003 and the 
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall 
of Fame in 2004. In 2005, he 
was the recipient of the Dick 
McCann Memorial Award 
by the Professional Football 
Writers of America, common-
ly referred to as the “Writer’s 
Wing” of the Pro Football Hall 
of Fame. Eleven times he’s been 
voted Michigan’s Sportswriter 
of the Year by the National 
Sportscasters and Sportswriters 
Association.

A VERY SUPER SUNDAY
Though Green officially retired 
from the Detroit News in 2004, he 
continues to have an open invi-
tation to submit columns when 
he has something on his mind he 

would like to share. His coverage 
of this year’s Super Bowl in Los 
Angeles included six columns, 
including a rare one-on-one 
phone interview with Matthew 
Stafford while in LA prior to the 
game.
Green recalls fondly the recep-
tion he received in the press 
box at Super Bowl 55 in Tampa 
last year when his unmatched 
streak of covering games was 
announced to the media in atten-
dance. Jerry told me he was given 
a rousing round of applause 
adding: “I didn’t detect a boo,
” he 
said with a laugh. 
The NFL was again very 
accommodating to Green 
during this year’s Super Bowl 
Week. He was able to forgo 
traveling to a convention cen-
ter to register and receive his 
media credentials. Instead, the 
league delivered them person-
ally to his hotel room. A special 
seat was provided to Jerry to 
limit the number of steps he 
would have to maneuver in 
the press box, and an NFL 
public relations representative 
was assigned to him to bring 
refreshments, among other 
amenities he needed.
As mentioned earlier, there’s 
an additional backstory that 
Green acknowledges was added 
motivation to make it to his 
56th consecutive Super Bowl 
last month. And it just might 
provide the motivation to end 
his streak now. The number 
56 — the number that could 
forever connect Jerry Green to 
his boyhood hero, New York 
Yankee Joe DiMaggio, the ball-
player who to this day holds the 
record for having at least one 
hit in ... 56 straight games.
My conversations thus far 
with Jerry Green have been 
limited to phone conversations. 
I’m hoping he’ll accept a lunch 
invitation from me in the very 
near future. The pastrami sand-
wich is on me. I only ask that he 
serve up another round of great 
sports stories. 

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