Ravens fan wins seats for 20 years. See her smile over late dad’s ‘last gift’ to her
A big Baltimore Ravens fan won seats to see her favorite team play for the next two decades, Maryland lottery officials said.
Winner and “ultimate” Ravens fan Shannan Brown believes it was her late father’s “last gift” to her and her family, officials said in a Feb. 19 news release.
“We lost my dad last year. He was a Vietnam vet and the life of every Ravens game we watched,” Brown told officials. “Although his health wouldn’t allow him to go to a game, we stayed right by his side and cheered the Ravens on together.”
And they took the games “very seriously,” she said.
“I mean, birthdays were placed on hold for goodness sake,” she said. “I believe deep in my heart my dad is watching over us and wanted this to be the very last gift he could present to me and my family in his absence.”
Her win came with another surprise — former Ravens running back Terrance West announced she was the winner.
Photos show Brown crying “with excitement” at the big news.
Now she’ll have to decide who will join her for each game between her husband and two kids, officials said.
“We are going to have to alternate,” she said. “We have 20 years to figure it out.”
Brown was one of six finalists in the lottery’s “Seats For 20 Years” prize, officials said. All six of them and their guests were invited to the M&T Bank Stadium for a tour — plus a $10,000 prize.
Brown’s “prize includes a pair of club-level seats and a parking pass for every Baltimore Ravens preseason and regular season game for the next two decades,” officials said.
“We’re the ultimate Ravens fans,” she told Fox 5 News. “Our house turns into a frat house for the Ravens. People decorate every year for Christmas, but we are like that when it comes to the Ravens.”
