When the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off for Super Bowl LV this Sunday, one Marshall native will be more than just a football fan.
For the past five years, Brad Berlin, a 1985 graduate of Marshall High School has been the head equipment manager for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His path to his current job began by working for long time Marshall Owls coach Cecil Naylor.
When Berlin was in 8th grade at Beuker Middle School, he reached out to Jim Hargrave, and became the manager for the freshman football team. Berlin had only been the manager of the team for about a week before Naylor recruited him and another student to manage the Varsity football team.