56 Super Bowls Detroit sportswriter Jerry Green dies

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DETROIT — Jerry Green, the Detroit sportswriter who covered 56 consecutive Super Bowls, has died at the age of 94, The Detroit News reported Friday.

Green retired as a columnist for News in 2004 but continued to attend the paper’s Super Bowl through this year. His streak began with Green Bay’s 35-10 victory over Kansas City in the first Super Bowl in 1967.

“Jerry Green is part of the tapestry of the Super Bowl!” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told the paper in January.

Green, a native of New York City, died Thursday night, The News reported. He was a Detroit sports writer for the Associated Press before joining the news in 1963.

“I’ve never wanted to do anything else,” Green said earlier this year of a career spanning a variety of professional and collegiate sports.

News editor and publisher Gary Miles said Green was an icon.

“He was unabashedly proud of the paper, his contributions, and his colleagues,” Miles said. “He gave us everything he had and we will miss him.”

Prior to the Super Bowl era, Green covered the 1957 NFL Championship Game, which was won by the Detroit Lions. The Lions have yet to play in the Super Bowl.

“I don’t think I’m going to last that long,” Green joked with Crain’s Detroit Business in 2019.

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