DETROIT – This time of the year, the hottest ticket around is a ticket to the Super Bowl.
This year, due to COVID-19, NFL will allow about 14,500 fans to watch the game in person. More than half those tickets will be gifted to health care workers.
A nurse from Metro Detroit was able to get a ticket. Carol St. Henry will be going to the Super Bowl. She works as a critical care nurse in the ICU of the St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital in Pontiac.
When she heard that the NFL was going to choose 7,500, vaccinated first responders and medical personnel to see the Super Bowl in person she wrote a letter to the commissioner.
To her surprise, Roger Goodell wrote her back. She is still waiting to find out if her husband will get a ticket too, but she said if he doesn’t she’s OK with it. She said she’s going to the game to represent her hometown health care heroes.
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The Kansas City Chiefs had a pretty good idea what kind of COVID-19 protocols they would have to wade through in defense of their Super Bowl championship the moment they finally gathered for in-person training camp.
One of their own helped to devise them. It was Chiefs vice president of sports medicine and performance Rick Burkholder who worked hand in hand with the NFL, physicians and other trainers in developing the testing, social distancing and tracing parameters that would ultimately allow the league to play its full 256-game regular-season schedule.