Longtime Detroit newspaper columnist Jerry Green, who covered each of the first 56 Super Bowls, died on Friday at the age of 94, The Detroit News announced.
Green joined the Associated Press in 1956, after spending three years in the Navy, and ultimately worked his way up to become the AP sports editor in Detroit. He started writing for The Detroit News in 1963 and became the Lions beat writer from 1965 to ’72, when he moved into a columnist position. Green retired from that role in 2004, but continued to cover the Super Bowl every year for The Detroit News’s coverage of the game.
In 2020, Green became the last reporter to cover every Super Bowl, passing the Newark Star-Ledger’s Jerry Izenberg, who chose to end his streak covering the game that year. Green would cover each of the next two Super Bowls as well before his streak ended last month.
