OPINION:
Thank you for your remembrances of Sonny Jurgensen (“LOVERRO: The quarterback, the coach and one memorable year,” and “The quarterback, the coach and one memorable year,” Feb. 9; “Sonny Jurgensen celebrated as NFL community remembers Redskins legend,” Web, Feb. 8). My mother may have paid Jurgensen the ultimate compliment when she told me I was born during the first half of a Washington Redskins game in which he played, and she was convinced her obstetrician ordered a cesarean section to speed my delivery so he wouldn’t miss the second half.
Jurgensen never played in the Super Bowl, but he did make the game as a radio broadcaster. His voice, along with the voices of Frank Herzog and Sam Huff, is immortalized in NFL Films’ Super Bowl XVII, XVIII, XXII and XXVI highlight films.
Jurgensen also co-hosted “Redskins Sidelines” with Glenn Brenner and Warner Wolf and “Redskins Report” with George Michael, Michael Wilbon and John Riggins. During the latter program, Jurgensen once memorably set up Riggins’ rendition of Robert W. Service’s “The Men That Don’t Fit In,” a poem that applied to Mr. Riggins and Jurgensen as rebellious spirits who became beloved Redskins legends.
STEPHEN A. SILVER
San Francisco, California
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