In the off season he wakes up, works out, hangs out with his son and his wife, shops, and lounges around. It won’t be long until he receives his Super Bowl ring, meets the President of the United States, travels to the Kentucky Derby with his friend…Peyton Manning, and maybe someday finds a spot on the Lions. Fraser Grad Jim Sorgi knew all along his passion was sports. In high school he played football, basketball and baseball. Football just happened to be the sport that offered him a scholarship. He attended The University of Wisconsin to play football, but he also received his degree in business, marketing and finance. “I got my degree, I may as well try to make the NFL,” Sorgi said, “I ended up getting drafted by the Colts the 6th round, and I’ve been playing football ever since.” With a long line of family history at Fraser High, including his father (also an FHS athlete), Sorgi’s path was set for a successful athletic career at FHS. “I wish I could go back,” Sorgi said, “I liked high school so much, I wish they’d pass a law saying you had to go six years.” Not only was Sorgi an athlete, but a Student Council member as well. He said he was a class representative, probably voted in based on his “athletic talent”, but he still had a good time. “I had a couple friends that tried to get me to join Fraser Singers, but I never had the time to do it,” Sorgi said. Along with winning the Super Bowl and having his jersey retired here at FHS, Sorgi was Homecoming King his senior year. If you were to attend homecoming that year, you definitely would have been able to see him tearing up the dance floor. “I can’t dance, but I like to dance, so I figure if you like something…even though you’re not good at it, it shouldn’t stop you,” Sorgi said. Sorgi still carries the ethics he learned at Fraser into the NFL. Before a big game, ever since high school, he gets his own private space and sits there in the silence to go over things and visualize himself on the field. However, there is one thing you will NOT find Sorgi doing before a big game: listening to crazy, loud music. The weeks leading up to the Super Bowl worked a bit different. Two weeks in, Sorgi practiced with the team in Indiana like they would any other day. The following week before the Super Bowl is media week, where each day 50 or 60 reporters surround the team, all asking the same questions. On top of prepping for the game, he had to organize his Super Bowl tickets, and his family’s airfares, to ensure they would all be there to see him hold the trophy. “It’s kind of like a circus; there’s not a lot of football involved,” Sorgi said, “The best time about the Super Bowl is probably the night before the game.” In only four years, Sorgi has accomplished every football player’s goal: winning the Super Bowl. Next, he would like to receive a little more playing time. He plans to stay with the Colts for one more year, and then he hopes to maybe become a starter on a different team. When asked about ever coaching football someday, Sorgi said, “I don’t have the patience. If I coached anything it would probably be pee wee football.” Sorgi looks forward to moving to a new team where he can excel as a starting QB. “Hopefully the Lions will bring me back home,” Sorgi said, “I got here and I’m going to try to stay here as long as I can.”