Politics & Government

Dallas CVB Gives Green Bay Homeless Couple Home for Four Days … and Super Bowl Tix Too

'Round this time Friday morning we tuned into the Green Bay FOX affiliate to find Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau honcho Phillip Jones promoting the city and a Super Bowl prize-pack giveaway, which included two tickets to the game, four nights' worth of accommodations in Dallas and $500 toward airfare...
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‘Round this time Friday morning we tuned into the Green Bay FOX affiliate to find Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau honcho Phillip Jones promoting the city and a Super Bowl prize-pack giveaway, which included two tickets to the game, four nights’ worth of accommodations in Dallas and $500 toward airfare. All you had to do was wander the streets of Green Bay Saturday, find the DCVB’s mystery man and utter the phrase, “Have you been to Dallas lately?” (DCVB held a similar contest in Pittsburgh, of course.) The Wisconsin winners were on Green Bay TV Sunday morning: Ouida Wright and boyfriend Aaron, a homeless couple living in a downtown shelter for the past two months. Their “straight-outta-the-movies” story, per the Green Bay anchor, follows.

Local homeless couple Super Bowl bound: fox11online.com

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