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Galesburg's Super Bowl Family Happy They Went, Glad They're Coming Home
She can cross it off her Bucket List.

Galesburg resident Carrie Bernett traveled to New Orleans to try and score tickets to the Super Bowl after learning her beloved San Francisco 49'ers would be playing. She says she was successfully able to get tickets -- buying them at face value from a Baltimore Ravens fan -- even if they were, as she says, in the "nose bleed" seats at the Super Dome.

Bernett tells WGIL while she's glad she went and enjoyed the experience, she's not so sure she'd ever do it again.

"In the future they'll just keep going up and get more ridiculous. It just seems to be getting very corporate not a lot of true fans were there it just seems all to be corporate people and I think that's what the Super Bowl is becoming so I don't think I'd do it in the future."

Bernett says maybe she would, if somehow she was given free tickets.

Bernett says she and her husband were on the lighted side of the Super Dome when the lights went out just after the start of the second half.

She says it wasn't as dark as television made it out to be, but she did say for a time the stadium got quite warm, and restrooms weren't working right.
02 04 13 by Newsroom
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