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Jaworski says. “I like to see it, I like to feel it, and if I’m campaign that may include other countries down the

going to fail, I’m going to do it by making my own deci- road if it is successful.
sions and not letting someone else manage my money. While he has eyes on making American football

That’s been my investment proile.”
more of an international game, his heart and his home
In addition to his golf courses, Jaworski owns the will always be in New Jersey. Jaworski grew up in the

Philadelphia Soul, which competes in the Arena steel town of Lackawanna, N.Y., played his college
Football League. While the franchise bears the name ball not far from the steel mills of Ohio when he was

of the city where it plays its games, the Soul has forged dubbed the “Polish Rife” at Youngstown State, and
a strong relationship with the Garden State. “We was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the second

practice in New Jersey, our players live in New Jersey, round of the 1973 NFL Draft. In 1977, he was traded
and our coaches live in New Jersey,” Jaworski says. to Philadelphia and blossomed into a starter and
Everything Ron Jaworski
“Although we play our games at Wells Fargo Center in league MVP under coach Dick Vermeil. In addition to
Philadelphia, we are anchored in New Jersey.”
inding NFL stardom with the Eagles, he also found a says he learned about
being successful in busi-
Jaworski is helping to expand the Arena League new home in South Jersey, where he, his family, and ness he learned from the
into China and this fall, a six-team division will his business have remained.
men who coached the
compete there as part of an international growth
“This became home,” Jaworski says. “My irst
NFL teams he played on.

GARY M. PERKINS
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