Westporter Greg Rosen says he has one of the best seats in Houston’s Reliant Stadium for todays Super Bowl.
Actually, heҒs got 75,000 of them.
Rosens company, Meeting Street Promotions of Westport, created the custom seat cushions that every ticket holder will take home after todayҒs game between the Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots.
The company, which has the NFL license to produce the seats, has overseen the promotion for the past 10 years.
The navy-blue cushions branded with the Super Bowl logo will be waiting in every seat at Houstons Reliant Stadium when fans start pouring in for the 6:15 p.m. kick off.
It takes five days to put them in and 20 minutes for people to take them out,Ӕ Rosen told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach, Fla., from Reliant Stadium.
Rosen is a 1977 graduate of Myrtle Beach High School and the Super Bowl gig is his company’s biggest project of the year.
At the NFLs request, he packs the pouches on the cushions with goodies; this year, transistor radios. The cushion also carries colored cards fans will use during the national anthem to create a stars-and-stripes patriotic picture.
The job has its perks. Rosen has the chance to get a half-dozen tickets to the big game. ThatҒll make you popular.
ItӒs nice to play Santa Claus with Super Bowl tickets, he said.
Counting 10 Super Bowls and four Final Fours, menԒs and womens, Rosen has made more than 1.2 million cushions for fanҒs fannies.
ThatӒs a lot of butts, he told the newspaper after tallying up the total.
