Two residents of a homeless shelter in Green Bay, WI, say they never imagined winning a trip to Super Bowl XLV in Dallas.
The couple, Ouida Wright and her boyfriend Aaron won two tickets to the game, hotel accommodations and travel expenses from the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau. The DCV put on a contest where participants had to log on to its Facebook page to find a secret phrase.
The phrase was, "Have you been to Dallas lately?" The DCV sent what they called a "mystery man" to walk around the streets of Green Bay. The first person to utter the secret phrase to him would win the Super Bowl package, Fox 11 news reports.
On Saturday, Wright and her boyfriend left a local soup kitchen to walk around downtown for the Winterfest on Broadway event. After being approached by others who were looking for the "mystery man," the couple caught on to what the contest was all about. The fourth person they uttered the secret phrase to revealed himself the "mystery man," and declared them winners of the giveaway.
"I'm homeless and I thought someone was just messing with me," Wright told Fox 11 News. "Then we saw the cameras. We had 90-cents in our pockets and we have won a package that people would have offered thousands of thousands of dollars for."
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