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Super Bowl Champ On Founding A Catholic School, Plan To ‘Tweak’ Education

‘If young people ever needed to know about God, ever needed to be soaked in the gospel, this is the time’

Joe Morgan
Super Bowl Champ On Founding A Catholic School, Plan To ‘Tweak’ Education
The Daily Wire

With a Super Bowl ring, six Pro Bowl appearances, and a degree from Harvard, Matt Birk had racked up a lifetime of laurels before opening a high school three years ago. Now he has his sights set on politics.

Birk, who spent 15 years as a center battling in the NFL trenches before retiring in 2012, opened Unity High School in Burnsville, Minnesota, with his wife, Adrianna, in 2019. He founded the Catholic high school, which currently fields students in grades 9-11, to “tweak” the way kids are educated. 

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