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Here’s how lucky Chelsea and Courey Marshall are: They are going to Sunday’s Super Bowl after spending the previous night in a luxury suite at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Courey Marshall Hakeem Butler Jersey , a graduate of the Naval Academy who spent five years in the service, and his wife, who works for a chiropractic practice, are Broncos fans from San Diego. So this isn’t their first trip to the big game. In 2016, they were at Levi’s Stadium to see Denver beat Carolina for the NFL championship.

Sure, their team and favorite player, now-retired Peyton Manning Chris Lindstrom Jersey , are not on hand this year. And the couple had no plans to be in Minnesota in February.

Then Courey was notified – by Manning, of all people – that he’d won the Courtyard by Marriott Super Bowl contest. The prizes include two tickets to Eagles-Patriots, and also the opportunity to stay in the converted stadium suite on Saturday night.

”I’ve never been in a completely empty stadium, let alone the Super Bowl stadium,” he said. ”And to have my wife with me, and to wake up on game day in the stadium, that’s pretty special.”

Added Chelsea: ”I can’t imagine what it’s like to wake up in the Super Bowl stadium with no fans there.”

They’re about to find out.

The suite is on field level next to where the Patriots would run out of the tunnel before the game. It will be converted from the sleepover suite back to its original state well before kickoff http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/kaleb-mcgary-jersey , and the Marshalls will have prime seats near midfield.

Eli Manning was on hand this week to show off a replica of the suite and an omnitheater presentation that replicated the experience.

”You’re right there in the dome and get to see all the behind-the-scenes stuff,” he said. ”Then you wake up on Super Bowl Sunday right there. Has to be a wonderful experience.”

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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum’s trip to the Super Bowl as a guest of a Minneapolis utility included free invitations to a rock concert, private parties, meals and other events, The Associated Press found through an open records request.

Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatzki said Saturday the GOP governor has reimbursed Xcel Energy for all costs related the weekend trip, with the sum now totaling almost $40,000.

Burgum and first lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum watched the Super Bowl in Minneapolis on Feb. 4 from a suite provided at no cost by Xcel Energy Kendall Sheffield Jersey , which serves more than 90,000 customers in North Dakota.

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The governor has been heavily criticized, including from within his Republican Party, for accepting the utility’s gift, which he said gave him ”quality time to engage in constructive conversations with top Xcel executives.”

Burgum later said in a statement that he repaid $37,000 to the utility to ”eliminate even the perception of any conflict.”

A subsequent AP open records request found that the utility invited the first-term governor and his wife to other events during the Super Bowl weekend.

The correspondence showed that the utility was ”thrilled” that Burgum would attend and pledged to make it a ”memorable” experience. The governor’s staff also was asked if Burgum had any ”dietary restrictions.”

Nowatzki said Burgum and his wife attended a Minnesota Wild hockey game, a private brunch and a tailgating party with Xcel officials. Burgum also attended a charity event but his wife didn’t http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/john-cominsky-jersey , and neither attended the rock concert, Nowatzki said.

Those events were not disclosed by Burgum but Nowatzki said the governor repaid the utility $2,500 to cover their costs at the same time he repaid the company for the Super Bowl tickets.

”He reimbursed it all, all at the same time,” Nowatzki said.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton paid more than $6,000 out his own pocket for a ticket to his state’s Super Bowl game.

During his campaign for governor, Burgum Qadree Ollison Jersey , a wealthy former software executive, often talked about ”reinventing government,” shaking up the ”good old boy” party establishment and reining in ”runaway spending” as the state’s oil boom was fading.