For countless Packer and Steeler fans making the trip to Dallas, the Super Bowl will be an experience of a lifetime with plenty of fond memories to look back on.
You'd be hard-pressed, though, to find two people more grateful to make the trip than Ouida Wright and her boyfriend Aaron Hermes, a Green Bay homeless couple who incredibly won a Super Bowl package — including tickets, a hotel room and travel expenses — through a contest held by the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau.
As first reported by FOX 11 in Green Bay, the couple was walking to an outdoor event in downtown Green Bay on Saturday when repeatedly stopped by strangers and asked, "Have you been to Dallas lately?"
Wright and Hermes quickly learned that a "mystery man" was in Green Bay and that the first person to ask him that very phrase would win the Super Bowl trip.
Wright and Hermes decided to join in and, after three misses, they found the mystery man on their fourth try.
"I asked three people and the fourth gentleman . . . I said, 'Are you the contest guy?' And he said, 'Why yes I am!' " Wright told the station during Sunday's edition of the show Good Day Wisconsin.
"I'm homeless, let's face it, and I thought someone was just messing with me," Wright told FOX 11. "Then we saw the cameras, and Aaron and I just looked at each other — and (Hermes) bleeds green and gold — and I just thought, 'Oh my gosh.' "
"We had 90 cents in our pockets and we have won a package that people have offered thousands and thousands of dollars for," Wright marveled during the interview. "And all I could think of is, oh my gosh, these corporations that put this on. They must be thinking 'Yes, finally a contest that we put it on and the parameters were so that somebody who never in a million years afford to go, can go.'
"And what better than a couple in a homeless shelter? Not that we're more deserving, but a homeless shelter. We're lucky to get a can of soda or a movie and we're going to the Super Bowl!"
For Wright, it will be her first football game in person.
Her boyfriend, however, has been dreaming of this day for quite some time. A lifelong Packers fan, he told FOX 11 that going to the Super Bowl is something he's dreamed of since childhood.
"It's a lifelong dream. Ever since I was young, I've always wanted to go to a Super Bowl with the Packers playing and now I've finally got that opportunity." But for Wright, something is even more important to her than the big game.
"We're in a homeless shelter, we can't show affection, we've been there for two months," Wright said. "I'm looking forward to spooning."
Some things are just more important than football.
You'd be hard-pressed, though, to find two people more grateful to make the trip than Ouida Wright and her boyfriend Aaron Hermes, a Green Bay homeless couple who incredibly won a Super Bowl package — including tickets, a hotel room and travel expenses — through a contest held by the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau.
As first reported by FOX 11 in Green Bay, the couple was walking to an outdoor event in downtown Green Bay on Saturday when repeatedly stopped by strangers and asked, "Have you been to Dallas lately?"
Wright and Hermes quickly learned that a "mystery man" was in Green Bay and that the first person to ask him that very phrase would win the Super Bowl trip.
Wright and Hermes decided to join in and, after three misses, they found the mystery man on their fourth try.
"I asked three people and the fourth gentleman . . . I said, 'Are you the contest guy?' And he said, 'Why yes I am!' " Wright told the station during Sunday's edition of the show Good Day Wisconsin.
"I'm homeless, let's face it, and I thought someone was just messing with me," Wright told FOX 11. "Then we saw the cameras, and Aaron and I just looked at each other — and (Hermes) bleeds green and gold — and I just thought, 'Oh my gosh.' "
"We had 90 cents in our pockets and we have won a package that people have offered thousands and thousands of dollars for," Wright marveled during the interview. "And all I could think of is, oh my gosh, these corporations that put this on. They must be thinking 'Yes, finally a contest that we put it on and the parameters were so that somebody who never in a million years afford to go, can go.'
"And what better than a couple in a homeless shelter? Not that we're more deserving, but a homeless shelter. We're lucky to get a can of soda or a movie and we're going to the Super Bowl!"
For Wright, it will be her first football game in person.
Her boyfriend, however, has been dreaming of this day for quite some time. A lifelong Packers fan, he told FOX 11 that going to the Super Bowl is something he's dreamed of since childhood.
"It's a lifelong dream. Ever since I was young, I've always wanted to go to a Super Bowl with the Packers playing and now I've finally got that opportunity." But for Wright, something is even more important to her than the big game.
"We're in a homeless shelter, we can't show affection, we've been there for two months," Wright said. "I'm looking forward to spooning."
Some things are just more important than football.
