Davenport man wins free trip to Super Bowl
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By Thomas Geyer | Saturday, February 02, 2008 |
Tim Misner said he will believe his winning a trip to Super Bowl XLII is real when he hits the airport this morning, boards the plane, lands in Phoenix and is at tonight’s VIP party.
“It’s the only time I’ve ever won anything,” the 38-year-old Davenport native and Davenport Central High graduate said. “I’ve entered stuff before but nothing ever happens.”
Earlier in the fall, Misner went to foxsports.com and entered a contest to win a trip to the Super Bowl and a Ford F-150 Ultimate Tailgate Party Truck that is loaded with the works, from flat screen TVs to a big grill and X-Box game system. The contest was co-sponsored by Ford.
“I forgot I even entered the contest,” Misner said. “I found out last Monday, and I thought it was all a big joke. I thought it was another telemarketer.”
Finally, a representative of Exposure Marketing, which specializes in prize promotions, got him, well, mostly convinced he is going.
“They’re paying for the flight and hotel and everything,” said Misner, who is a switch operator for the IC&E railroad. “The only thing that comes close to this is Four Star Plumbing donated a new furnace to us over the winter.”
Misner is taking his younger brother, Rob, to the game.
Misner’s wife, Samantha, who works at Tom Cavanagh’s Farmers Insurance in Bettendorf, said she is thinking of having him buy a lottery ticket before he leaves.
“All of our friends have been asking, ‘Don’t these things come in threes,’” she said. “Then maybe we should play the lottery. That could be the third thing.”
While they are all excited, including children Nicholas, 12, and Zachary, 6, “I’m still kind of waiting for him to get to the airport to find out it’s wrong, because that’s what usually happens to us,” she added.
But it has added a bit of chaos. “We have a nice simple little life,” she said, adding they’d like to keep it that way. “This is all new to us.”
Samantha added that son Nicholas was concerned at first, “because he didn’t want his father to be let down. But once he found out it wasn’t a big bunch of hooey he told a few people at school.
“It’s gone around to the family,” she added. “My brother flipped out and my mom didn’t believe it.”
Of course, the value of the Ford truck is enough to put them in a new tax bracket reserved for the monetarily wealthy; but Samantha said they’ve got an accountant and a lawyer to give them advice as to what to do with the thing.
Misner said he is wondering when it all will sink in.
“It hasn’t yet,” he said Friday night. “I’ve remained pretty calm. I’ve lost some sleep, of course. It’s hard to believe some little guy from Iowa winning something like this. But it’s really wild. It really is.”
Thomas Geyer can be contacted at (563) 383-2328 or tgeyer@qctimes.com.
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