The press box table was too high and the chair too low. He’d stand up and strain to see the field, sit back during the timeouts, then stand and strain again.
Jerry Green had come all this way after all these years and he was going to watch Matthew Stafford in the Super Bowl the same way he watched every Super Bowl ever played. In person, not on TV, not described by someone else, because that’s what writers do.
Eventually, an NFL official found a taller chair and Jerry settled into his seat in SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to witness Stafford lead the Rams to the Super LVI championship. By proxy, it was a Detroit moment, as Stafford played 12 years with the Lions and Jerry respected the quarterback’s travails. From my seat next to him on that February night in 2022, I watched as Jerry watched, and could only imagine the sights those eyes had seen.
