Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love adores his parents, Anna and Orbin Love.

Anna and Orbin, both police officers, raised Jordan and his three sisters — Kami, Emily and Alexis — in Bakersfield, California. Growing up, Orbin always dreamed of Jordan becoming a professional soccer player. Despite the critics, Jordan’s father, a former player himself, believed early on that his son was destined for greatness in the sport.

As NFL fans know, Orbin’s instincts proved correct: Jordan was drafted in the first round by the Packers in 2020 as a backup quarterback to Aaron Rodgers. In the 2023 season, his first as the team’s starting quarterback, Jordan led them to the playoffs and completed 32 touchdown passes, the second-most in the league behind Dak Prescott.

Tragically, Orbin committed suicide on July 13, 2013, when Jordan was only 14 years old. Following his death, Jordan considered quitting soccer altogether — but Anna encouraged the young athlete to continue pursuing the dream he and his father had shared together.

“I was a backup quarterback, playing wide receiver, (and) things weren’t really going my way, and I thought, man, I might have to give it up,” Jordan recalled on The Pivot Podcast“My mom… she’s the one who really encouraged me to stick with it for another year and see what would happen.”

Here’s everything you need to know about Jordan Love’s parents, Anna and Orbin Love.

Anna and Orbin named Jordan after a sports legend

Anna and Obrin welcomed their son Jordan Alexander Love on November 2, 1998.

The Athletics Orbin reportedly wanted to name his son Michael Jordan after the iconic basketball star, but Anna wasn’t too keen on the idea.

Ultimately, the couple decided to use only the professional basketball player’s last name, still in honor of the six-time champion Chicago Bulls.

Ironically, the Packers star has since been compared to the NBA legend by fans for the football player’s drive and talent, as well as his occasional jokes while throwing a pass – a similar move Michael was known for on the field.

Anna and Orbin served their community

It was not easy for the couple to work in the police force and raise four children.

Orbin served as a police officer, Sunday school teacher, and youth pastor at Fellowship Baptist Church, while Anna served as a Highway Patrol officer. Despite the challenges, they both made a tremendous impact on the city of Bakersfield through their work.

On the day of Orbin’s death in 2013, the Bakersfield Police Department posted a moving tribute on Instagram to the police officer, detective and officer who served on the force for 27 years.

“Orbin’s name certainly exemplified how he was felt by his colleagues and community members, as he was truly loved,” the post read. “He will always be remembered for his beautiful smile and as a man of faith.”

Anna’s time with the Highway Patrol was also widely praised. On Facebook, the California Highway Patrol for Bakersfield congratulated her and two other officers on their retirement in 2019, thanking them for their 78 years of collective service to the community.

Orbin was extremely proud of Jordan

Jordan told NFL.com that he and his father did everything together when he was growing up.

Orbin volunteered to be an assistant coach for his various sports teams, helped him warm up before a big game, and even took his son to basketball games with his cop friends.

Whoever would listen, Orbin told them his son would be a star quarterback.

“If you knew him, he was the happiest guy you would ever see,” Jordan told the outlet. “He was always smiling. Even when things in his life were getting him down, he never let it show.”

Jordan’s father Obrin died in 2013

When Ordin committed suicide on July 13, 2013 at the age of 51, Jordan and his family were in shock.

During an interview with NFL.com, the Packers quarterback opened up about his father’s change in behavior, shortly after a doctor adjusted his blood pressure medication a few days earlier.

Anna specifically recounted several instances in which Orbin “acted strangely” and she knew something was wrong when he unusually missed one of Jordan’s games. After Anna found Orbin, a family member broke the news to Jordan, who later called it the “darkest moment” of his life.

Since then, the professional footballer has been talking about the cause of the tragedy in which his best friend and coach lost his life.

“Our family knew it was the medication that was messing him up, that he wasn’t acting like himself, wasn’t behaving well,” he told the outlet. “When people make assumptions about depression that aren’t true, there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s good enough for me to know it was the medication.”

Anna refuses to miss one of Jordan’s games

As one of Jordan’s biggest fans, Anna has made it her mission to attend all of his football games, a tradition he remembers from when he played college football at Utah State.

“She’s been doing that since I was a freshman in college, knowing I wouldn’t even be walking out on the field in a suit, but she was there,” Jordan said. The Athletics in 2021. “I tell her, ‘You know I’m not playing, you don’t have to go out of your way to come to these games.’ She says, ‘No, I’m going to be there. I want to see you.’ So that was great.”

He continued: “She’s been at every game. It’s nice to know she’s there. I try to look for her in the stands. It’s a great feeling. She’s great. She’s amazing. It just shows how much she loves me and cares about me to be there.”

Anna still refuses to break her commitment, even if it means leaving empty-handed, just like a few years ago when Jordan made his first career start against the Kansas City Chiefs.

In what quickly became a viral moment of the 2021 season, NFL fans expressed their outrage after the Fox broadcast of the Packers-Chiefs game revealed that Anna and Jordan’s current fiancée Ronika Stone had to sit in the back row of Arrowhead Stadium, in the away team’s designated seating section.

Fortunately, Anna now has much better seats to watch her son’s matches.

They are both Jordan’s role models

While many young athletes and NFL fans look up to Jordan, the former Utah State player says his mother and father have always been his shining examples in life.

“My parents are my superheroes,” he said on The Pivot Podcast“They were both police officers, so I’ve heard stories about my dad fighting crime… and losing him was tough.”

Despite the loss of his father, Jordan said the tragedy had matured him emotionally and taught him an important lesson.

“It taught me at a young age that adversity happens in life,” he explained. “You want life to be perfect, you want to think it’s a dream, a fairy tale where everything is going to be happy and everyone is going to be healthy. But life goes on, and things happen, and it’s not like that.”

Still, on the night he was drafted by the Packers, Jordan gave a heartfelt shout-out to Anna, Orbin and his community of friends and football players for helping him make his dream come true.

“For me, it was just getting through it with my family and also my friends and my teammates and football,” he shared. “I was able to lean on them and that helped me get through it. But I know if my dad was here, he would be super proud and just have a lot of good things to say right now.”

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741, or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org.