{"id":1313,"date":"2019-03-05T18:50:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2019-12-27T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T16:17:47","slug":"12-5-19-elvis-grbac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"12\/5\/19 &#8211; Elvis Grbac, Athletic Director and Football Coach at Villa Angela &#8211; St. Joseph, Former NFL Quaterback and Motivational Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday,&nbsp;&nbsp;December&nbsp;5, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Faith. Family. Future.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"163\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1370\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Elvis-Grbac-1200x1189.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Elvis-Grbac-1200x1189.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Elvis-Grbac-1200x1189-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Elvis-Grbac-1200x1189-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Elvis-Grbac-1200x1189-1024x1015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Elvis-Grbac-1200x1189-624x618.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elvis Grbac grew up in Willoughby Hills and graduated from St. Joseph High School before taking his talent to Ann Arbor where he went on to play quarterback for the University of Michigan under Coach Bo Schembechler and then his successor Gary Moeller. Following a record setting college career at Michigan, he was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 1993 and went on to play 9 seasons in the NFL. Throughout the span of his football career, Grbac received many accolades and recognition including an AFC West title, Pro Bowl appearance, and Super Bowl XXIX Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis now lives in Chagrin Falls, where he and his wife Lori have three children. He\u2019s also currently working towards his Masters in Theology at St. Mary\u2019s Seminary and serves on the Parish Council at Church of the Holy Angels in Chagrin Falls teaching Youth Catechesis.<\/p>\n<p>With all of these great achievements also came sacrifice and failure. Grbac now speaks openly about his American dream, the challenges he\u2019s faced along the way and how he overcame them through faith, hard work and perseverance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe City Club of Cleveland<br \/>\n850 Euclid Avenue, 2nd Floor&nbsp;<br \/>\nCleveland, OH 44114<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong><br \/>\n11:30&nbsp;a.m. &#8211; Register &amp;&nbsp;lunch buffet open<br \/>\nProgram begins at noon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTRATION:<\/strong><br \/>\nTickets:<\/p>\n<p>$250\/table of 10<br \/>\n$25\/individual ticket<\/p>\n<p><strong>REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cancellation Policy: If you reserve and are unable to attend, please call the office (216-589-9852) to cancel by noon the Monday prior to the luncheon to avoid being charged for the event. No refund will be given if reservations are canceled after 12:00 p.m.&nbsp;the Monday prior to the luncheon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=1313\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday,&nbsp;&nbsp;December&nbsp;5, 2019 Faith. Family. Future. Elvis Grbac grew up in Willoughby Hills and graduated from St. Joseph High School before taking his talent to Ann Arbor where he went on to play quarterback for the University of Michigan under Coach Bo Schembechler and then his successor Gary Moeller. Following a record setting college career at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}