At the Super Bowl, you can expect there won’t be an empty seat in the house, even if that seat is ... less than desirable. At U.S. Bank Stadium, where the Eagles and Patriots will play Super Bowl LII, if you walk towards the tippy top of Section 301, the section narrows into a last row of three seats that sit at the top of the upper deck like a widow’s peak.
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There, maybe if you look really closely during the telecast, you’ll see Alex and Sydney Wenglein, sisters in Pats gear who are enjoying the admittedly not all that bad view.
“We love [the seats],” Sydney says. “We’ve got our storage closet back here,” and she points behind her seat where their coats are laid out on a concrete landing. “But no, these seats give an awesome overview of the whole field. They don’t have our face towards the sun or anything, so they’re good.”
They shouldn’t have anything to complain about. Though Super Bowl tickets can cost thousands, Alex and Sydney got theirs for free. All they needed was a connection.
“One of my buddies I went to college with, he plays for the Pats now,” Alex says. “So I just kind of followed him: LaAdrian Waddle?”
Waddle has been an offensive tackle for the Patriots since 2015, and graduated from Texas Tech in 2013. All three were Red Raiders together.
“We have no idea how he got them, he had to pull some strings,” Sydney says. “He did something where he was able to get our tickets as cheap as possible.”
Alex and Sydney call Waddle “genuine” and “friendly.” They demur when I ask what he was like in college, however.
“He has grown a lot, I’ll say that. That’s all I say about that,” Sydney says. “But he was just as friendly, just as genuine, and I’m just proud of him. Just to see him grow over the years.”
Sydney calls going to the Super Bowl a “bucket list” item. They have been in constant communication with Waddle, and are lucky that the Patriots made the Super Bowl again after missing an opportunity last season.
“We saw him in Boston, we came and saw him, and the year before that we watched him, and then they made it this year,” Alex says. “It didn’t work out last year to go to the Super Bowl, but we kept in touch with him.”
Both are predicting Patriots victories, not surprisingly. Alex says 27-24, Sydney says 37-33. Whatever happens, they’ll be partying with Waddle afterwards. They’re having a blast.
“Minnesota’s an awesome, awesome state. Minneapolis, everyone has been so friendly,” Alex says, then adds: “Go Pats.”
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