Nobody in Canada went ape when Roy Gerela won his first Super Bowl.
Well, nobody except his own fan club, that is.
In the annals of Super Bowl history, Gerela of Powell River, B.C. will forever hold forth as the first Canadian to win the Super Bowl, yet when he reached this milestone achievement, it was treated with typical Canadian understatement.
”To tell the truth, I don’t think at the time that people even realized I was Canadian,” said Gerela, 72. He played high school football in the United States, first in Maryland, then in Hawaii.