How You Can Help A 90-Year-Old Packer Fan Get To The Super Bowl
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Updated: 11:27 PM Dec 19, 2009
How You Can Help A 90-Year-Old Packer Fan Get To The Super Bowl
A Reno woman loves something so much, she practically lives and breathes it. 90-year-old Marcella Anderson has been a Green Bay Packers fan her entire life.
Posted: 7:56 PM Dec 19, 2009
Reporter: Auburn Hutton
Email Address: auburn.hutton@kolotv.com

How You Can Help A 90-Year-Old Packer Fan Get To The Super Bowl
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You may think you know what it's like to love something--a pet, a spouse, even a child. But you haven't seen anything yet.

A Reno woman loves something so much, she practically lives and breathes it. 90-year-old Marcella Anderson has been a Green Bay Packers fan her entire life.

Marcella is one of two finalists for a nationwide competition to find the NFL's "Most Fanatical Family. Whoever wins the contest gets to take six of their family members to the Super Bowl in February, all expenses paid.

She wears a cheese hat with pride, and says her love for the Packers was meant to be. The year she was born in 1919, is the same year the Green Bay Packers became a team.

In her lifetime, she's seen the Packers play at least 400 times, and while the team may or may not make it to the Super Bowl this year, she thinks she deserves more than anyone else to be there.

"Because I am such a good Packers fan. Always have been and always will be," said Marcella.

That's why her granddaughter Sommer decided to enter the family's fanatical matriarch into the NFL competition. She says her Grandma has not only raised a multi-generation family of hard-core Packer's fans, but she also loves the sport for the right reasons.

"How she's always taught it is faith despite failure, loyalty despite loss, wishing and watching for more than just winning. Believing the guys on the field are kind of a family with you," said Sommer Anderson, who's a huge Packers fan herself.

Marcella says those are the kind of morals she's instilled in her family, and while see wants to see her Packers play in the bowl more than anything, if they don't make it in...or she doesn't win the contest, she says it will never destroy her spirit.

"It's always been in my blood, the Packers...even when they went belly-up."

And just to prove her fanatical ways, she told some of her favorite things to shout during Packers Games, starting with something like, 'bite 'em in the ankles.'

"Nail 'em, get 'em, stop 'em, knock 'em down!" shouted Marcella.

The Anderson's estimate the total Super Bowl prize package is worth close to $50,000 dollars added up. If they win, they will have to fork out taxes on the prize, which they say they will happily pay. After all, Grandma Marcella says it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, and she owes it to her Packers to be there.

If you'd like to see Marcella Anderson and her family make it to the Super Bowl this year, you can vote for them by heading to www.callingallfamilies.com. And keep in mind, you can vote as many times as you like.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Anonymous Location: Wausau on Dec 20, 2009 at 09:24 PM

Sad...what people won't do for 15 minutes of fame. If she really wants to go, maybe the FAMILY should spring for a ticket and make grandma's day!!
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 20, 2009 at 07:54 PM

Why does everyone always have to think the worst of people? Did you ever think that maybe she is a fan and wants to go? Or maybe it was the families idea to do something for her.
Posted by: Anonymous on Dec 20, 2009 at 01:05 PM

she just want the money the 5o.000
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