El Centro Chicano featured in Fox Super Bowl segment

Fox Sports visited campus and El Centro Chicano in mid-December to film for its Declaration of Independence Super Bowl segment. The segment was shown just prior to kickoff time for the Super Bowl on Sunday.

As part of the segment, football luminaries ranging from New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees to former 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice recite the Declaration of Independence in the company of such groups as farmers, members of the armed services and high school students.

Fox asked Stanford alumnus JIM PLUNKETT to participate in the presentation. He, in turn, asked to participate in conjunction with Stanford students from El Centro, Stanford’s Latino Community Center. The Fox presentation features FRANCES MORALES, associate dean and center director; ELVIRA PRIETO, associate director of the center; and nine students able to cobble time from their busy finals schedule. Although the Stanford group appears on film for only a few seconds, the filming, which took place in front of El Centro, in fact took several hours.

Plunkett, Stanford’s only Heisman Trophy winner, went on to stardom with the New England Patriots, the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders. He is a member of Stanford’s Athletic Hall of Fame as well as El Centro’s Alumni Hall of Fame.