Yes, Virginia, there are Jews in Super Bowl history
With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a ham sandwich.
With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a ham sandwich.
Adam Wolf, a 12-year-old with cerebral palsy, was stunned when Randi Grossman, West Coast director of the Chai Lifeline, called to tell him that the organization would pay for him to go to the Super Bowl.
If you’ve left your house or turned on the television in the last two weeks, you know: Pittsburgh’s going to the Super Bowl. But while huge portions of Pittsburghers — and, surely, much of the country — will be cheering for a Steeler victory, some members of the city’s Jewish community are celebrating in creative, and even educational ways.
For ex-Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Randy Grossman, being nicknamed \”The Rabbi\” was inevitable. “The fellow who pretty much nicknamed everyone was Dwight White, who recently passed away,\” Grossman said of the outstanding lineman from the Steel Curtain defense of the 1970s. \”He and I were locker neighbors and, yeah, what are you gonna call a white kid from Philadelphia who’s Jewish? Sparky?”
You know the old saying: Behind every Hall of Fame football coach stands a 5-foot, 4-inch Jewish cattle dealer with good hands, a big heart and a \”Yiddishe kop.\” For Earl “Curly” Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers, that man was Nate Abrams. Just a little kosher food for thought while watching Sunday\’s Super Bowl XLV between the Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
On Super Sunday, the alefs and bets in Green Bay and Pittsburgh will be thinking about X’s and O’s. They\’ll even be up for a little friendly wager. On the morning of Feb. 6, many hours before the NFC champion Green Bay Packers battle the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV, Rabbi Shaina Bacharach of the Conservative Congregation Cnesses Israel in Green Bay, says her religious school will square off against the school at the Or L’Simcha, Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh.