Green Bay Packers star Jordan Love is a fan favorite and is currently one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league. While many people will be intrigued to see Love shine in the regular season this year, many are curious about his background, especially his parents.
Let’s meet the Packers quarterback’s support system and their enduring effect.
Meet Jordan Love’s Parents, Anna and Orbin
Love was born on Nov. 2, 1998, to Anna and Orbin Love in Bakersfield, California. Jordan’s mother, Anna, worked as an officer for the California Highway Patrol. His father, Orbin, played quarterback growing up and was able to get as high as the junior college level before deciding to go a different path and joining the police force.
Orbin would become a sergeant in the Bakersfield police department, but tragedy struck the Love family in 2013 when Orbin sadly took his own life. Jordan was only 14.
Orbin was only 51 at the time of his death. Love has been quite open about the impact his father’s suicide had on his life and on his decision to pursue an NFL career. In an interview with the NFL, Love talked about how he had made the decision to step away from football after his father’s passing.
“My darkest moment was definitely the day it happened, just hearing about it right there in the car,” Jordan said. “I didn’t want to believe it.”
His mother, who also worked in the police, motivated him to stick it out another year during high school. Love then won the starting job on his JV team and never looked back. Even though he wasn’t a heavily recruited prospect, he still made it onto the Utah State Aggies roster, where he would go on to eventually become a first-round talent.
“I end up winning the starting job on the JV team, started throwing a little better, started getting a little confidence,” Jordan said. “By the end of that season, I was thinking, ‘I can really do this.'”
Anna took the reigns into her hands after her husband passed away and made every effort to give her three kids a stable home. When Jordan declared for the NFL Draft, he took to social media to thank his parents, including his father Orbin.
“I want to thank everyone who has helped me get to this point in my life, including my mom and my dad,” Jordan wrote on Twitter last December, officially declaring for the draft “Words cannot express how grateful I am for your love and continued support.”
Aggie Nation,
Thank you 💙#AggiesAllTheWay pic.twitter.com/JXzchtQR3C
— JLove (@jordan3love) December 11, 2019
Does Love Have Any Siblings?
Jordan is the only boy in a family of four total siblings. He has three sisters named Kami, Emily, and Alexis.
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Jordan, being the only boy, was never short on sister love, and his family stuck by his side through all the trials and tribulations of life. When he pursued and achieved his goal of one day playing in the NFL, they were all by his side. Love’s family was proud of that and his other accomplishments.