'Are you Jordan Love?': UWM student details how Packers QB helped her get car out of snow
DE PERE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- For one UW-Milwaukee student, a trip home for winter break led to a truly unforgettable memory.
Lucy Kurowski, a sophomore at UWM, returned home to Green Bay to spend her time between semesters. On Friday afternoon, she had a chance encounter with Packers quarterback Jordan Love.
Kurowski said in an interview she was leaving a De Pere salon after getting her hair done. As the thick of a winter storm slammed eastern Wisconsin, Kurowski's car got stuck in the parking lot.
"I can't get out of my parking spot," Kurowski recalled. "And as I'm brushing my car off and I'm trying to get out of this spot, I see a man start to walk past me and go to his vehicle, and I see he has a Packer logo on his clothes."
Kurowski said she immediately recognized that man was Love. She decided to play it cool.
"I didn't bother him, and then I proceeded to try to get out of this spot, stayed stuck," she said.
Kurowski, who's studying musical theater, couldn't help but to be dramatic when she realized Love was walking back toward her car.
"First off, he was like, 'You good?'" she said. "And I just said, 'Are you Jordan Love?' First thing I said. He said, 'Yeah, I am.' And I was just like, 'You're so awesome!'"
Kurowski said she was on the phone with her mom and her boyfriend to arrange having someone come help get her car out of the snow. They understood when she shouted Love was coming back to her car and hung up.
While she was thrilled to have Love helping her out, Kurowski said she couldn't help but to think about his own safety.
"He goes to the front of the vehicle, and I hit reverse and he pushes," she said. "I was [saying] in my head, 'You have a game on Sunday and you need to be playing. Don't get injured.'"
"So, I stopped him. I said, 'It's OK, I have people coming to help me anyway.' So he said, 'OK, no problem.' And I wished him luck on Sunday, asked for a selfie, and that's now blown up all over the entire internet."
Omg Jordan Love helping my niece out of a snow drift…what can’t he do?
— allie adames (@AllieKurowski) January 12, 2024
That’s my qb ?? pic.twitter.com/qv0p3Q5Jiz
The picture blew up when Kurowski's aunt posted the picture to social media. Even the NFL itself picked up on the story.
For Kurowski, it was a moment she'll always remember. For a rising Packers star, it may well have been a rite of passage.
"If this is something that is his true initiation into being a Wisconsinite, I'll take it," Kurowski said.