DETROIT — Detroit always had been represented at the Super Bowl — by one man.
Jerry Green, a legendary sportswriter in Michigan, first at the Associated Press and later at The Detroit News, who was the only reporter to cover each of the first 56 Super Bowls, died on Thursday night, according to his daughter, Jenny Klein. He was 94.
In February 2020, Green officially became the last reporter to see all of the Super Bowls, having outlasted Jerry Izenberg, a retired sports columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger. Izenberg called Green up weeks earlier and said he was out. Green repeatedly tried to get Izenberg to change his mind, but it was done.
