Nate Abrams, a 5-foot, 4-inch Jewish cattle dealer with good hands, a big heart and a “Yiddishe kop, may have been as instrumental in founding the Green Bay Packers as Earl “Curly” Lambeau, the team’s first coach and eventual namesake of Lambeau Field,” and keeping it afloat financially.
As his old club prepared to take on the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV in Dallas on Sunday, Randy Grossman reminisced about his time as a Steelers’ tight end and talked about his Jewishness and the absence of anti-Semitism he encountered in his career.