Warner’S Former Workplace Pulls For Famous Colleague

Mon., Jan. 31, 2000

New York Daily News

Kurt Warner was electric in the St. Louis Rams’ 23-16 Super Bowl win at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome on Sunday night, passing for 414 yards, including the 73-yard winning touchdown.

Things weren’t so exciting at the Hy-Vee Food Store in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where Warner worked after he was cut by the Green Bay Packers.

“It’s business as usual,” said Jim Janssen, assistant manager at the store where the NFL’s regular-season and Super Bowl MVP stocked shelves for $5.50 an hour five years ago. “It was very hectic earlier in the day. People were coming in for pop and chips, snack-food kind of stuff. But it’s been real quiet since the game started.”

The staff wasn’t watching the game because the TV reception in the store stinks, Janssen said.

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