A Hall County teen and her father will be among the Atlanta Falcons fans heading to Houston for the Super Bowl game with the New England Patriots.
But they won’t have to deal with the prices that ticket resellers, hotels and airlines are getting for the Feb. 5 game, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Skylar Tipton, 15, and father Jody Tipton are going because she won a contest with a tweet that proved popular on Facebook.
The contest was set up through the Epilepsy Foundation of Georgia, the station reported.
People like Skylar, a freshman at Flowery Branch High School, who have the neurological disorder were invited to enter.
Her tweet qualified her for the contest, and her story -- she has suffered from seizures since she was 14 months old -- got 1,600 likes on Facebook, Channel 2 reported.
"The intent was to send someone living with epilepsy to this incredible experience," Aly Clift, executive director of the foundation, told the Gainesville Times.
Skylar said she “freaked out” when she found out she had won, and she immediately went to the school lunchroom to tell her friends, the Times reported.
"She's my baby. She's my youngest one,” her father told Channel 2.
“The whole contest was amazing. People saw her story, they liked her story, they shared her story, and kept it going.”
Skylar proudly wears the No. 11 jersey of Falcons receiver Julio Jones, but there’s no doubt who’s really No. 1 on her team.
"I love my Falcons, but I love my Daddy more,” she said. “#Daddy's girl forever #Rise up!"
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