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2010/2011 NFL Playoffs
#31
Packers fan in Visa ad to miss 1st Super Bowl

http://sportifi.com/news/Packers-fan-in-...66612.html

MILWAUKEE — The streak is over: One of the four men featured in a national commercial for never missing a Super Bowl game will not be at Sunday's showdown between Pittsburgh and Green Bay.

Family members say 79-year-old Robert Cook of Brown Deer, Wis., is hospitalized and has sent his two daughters to Arlington, Texas, instead.

Cook's wife, Sarah, told The Associated Press her husband became very weak on Thursday.

"We were packed and ready to go," she said.

Cook said her husband is very depressed; the streak is over, but he also won't be able to watch his beloved Packers in the big game.

"To have the Packers go to the Super Bowl, we were just over the moon about it," Sarah Cook said.

Cook, New England Patriots fan Donald Crisman, San Francisco 49ers fan Larry Jacobson and Pittsburgh Steelers' fan Thomas Henschel have been to every Super Bowl since 1967 and created the "Never Missed a Super Bowl Club."

The four gained recognition in a recent Visa Inc. credit card commercial that celebrated the men's passion for football and their perfect attendance record. Cook's daughters have enlarged a photo of their dad and attached it to a stick so they could hold it up at the game.
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#32
Can you say jinx?
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#33
Well that sucked. Congrats on your team winning Speng.
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#34
desert11 Wrote:Well that sucked. Congrats on your team winning Speng.

Thanks
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#35
Not sure where to put this, probably here because I mentioned it above:

Brown Deer man featured in Visa Super Bowl commercial died days after Packers win

http://www.fox6now.com/sports/football/p...6254.story

WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE —

The Brown Deer man featured in Visa's Super Bowl fan commercial has died. 79-year-old Robert Cook passed away peacefully surrounded by his family members on February 10th. Cook's daughter says he's got sick around Christmas, and his condition just continued to deteriorate.

Cook was known for going to 44 consecutive Super Bowls, but missed Super Bowl XLV in Dallas. While preparing to leave for his flight his condition worsened, and had to be transported to a local hospital.
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