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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Super Bowl XLVII Has Clayton Connection

A Clayton attorney has been an on-field NFL official since 2002.

Super Bowl XLVII, in New Orleans, will have a Clayton connection. Joe Larrew, a partner at Hammond and Shinners, P.C., has been a National Football League line judge since 2002, according to the website, Pro-Football Reference.com. He confirmed with Patch that he will be part of the Super Bowl XLVII officiating crew on Sunday. Larrew's jersey number is 73. The NFL doesn't allow interviews of officials before a game. Larrew has worked as a clinician at the Sioux Empire Football Officials Clinic, and is scheduled there this year. The site also gives this background on Larrew. Before the NFL, he worked in the Big Ten Conference and Gateway Conference, and spent three years in NFL-Europe. He was a play clock operator for the St. Louis Rams …

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Clayton Resident Details the Anatomy of a Super Bowl Party

Kenny Shapiro and his family have been holding an event in honor of the big NFL game for six years.

Super Bowl Sunday has something for just about everyone. For avid football fans, the NFL’s two best teams duke it out for 60 minutes and leave everything on the field while vying for the Lombardi Trophy. For those who don’t like the gridiron, there’s an arsenal of entertaining commercials or the chance to see a headline-making halftime show a la Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction in 2004. Both of these groups, though, can appreciate one thing that makes this Sunday so special: the Super Bowl party. Recently, I sat down with Clayton resident Kenny Shapiro, the host of a local Super Bowl party for the past six years, to learn the ins and outs of a successful pigskin soirée. The genesis for Shapiro's party came when he and his family did …

Ryan Warner

9:33 pm on Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Stella, Syd and I were one of the many lucky guests this year and in the past. Ken Shapiro is the unofficial Mayor of Clayton. He and his wife, Mary have made the Clayton community a warmer and better place to live! Cheers, The Warners   more ›

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