Receiving that pair of tickets came as a complete shock to Jones, whose only focus that evening was ensuring the flag football players enjoyed their moment on the field.<\/p>\n
“I can’t even fathom it,” Jones said, “and I don’t even know if I’m gonna call my wife until I get back on the bus, but, I was already planning for the Super Bowl, ‘Are we gonna have some friends over? Let’s watch the game on TV,’ and things like that. But now we’re actually gonna be going to the Super Bowl. And the only thing that can make this even more special is if my favorite team can go along with me.”<\/p>\n
Having worked with NFL Flag since 2003, Jones and the Bears have been connected for decades. The team recently donated turf from the Walter Payton Center as part of the $7.6 million construction upgrade of Rockford’s Clarence Hicks Sports Complex.<\/p>\n
“Lamont has been empowering kids through flag football for over two decades,” Silva said. “He has been a tremendous partner to the Bears helping us start high school girls flag football in the Rockford area in 2022 and launch a middle school girls flag football league in 2025. I can’t think of a more deserving recipient. We are so grateful to Commissioner Goodell for recognizing Lamont.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Receiving that pair of tickets came as a complete shock to Jones, whose only focus that evening was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[217348,64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-410773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-article-girls-flag-football","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}