Robert Cook won't attend Super Bowl

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playof...ory?id=6093718

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Packers fan in oft-aired Visa ad to miss first Super Bowl

MILWAUKEE -- The streak is over: One of the four men featured in a national commercial for never missing a Super Bowl game will not be at Sunday's showdown between Pittsburgh and Green Bay.
Family members said Saturday that 79-year-old Robert Cook of Brown Deer, Wis., is hospitalized and had sent his two daughters to Arlington, Texas, instead.
Cook's wife, Sarah, told The Associated Press her husband became very weak on Thursday.
"We were packed and ready to go," she said.
Cook said her husband is very depressed; the streak is over, but he also won't be able to watch his beloved Packers in the big game.
"To have the Packers go to the Super Bowl, we were just over the moon about it," Sarah Cook said.
Cook, New England Patriots fan Donald Crisman, San Francisco 49ers fan Larry Jacobson and Pittsburgh Steelers' fan Thomas Henschel have been to every Super Bowl since 1967 and created the "Never Missed a Super Bowl Club."
The four gained recognition in a recent Visa Inc. credit card commercial that celebrated the men's passion for football and their perfect attendance record. Cook's daughters have enlarged a photo of their dad and attached it to a stick so they could hold it up at the game.

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My streak lives on: Never BEEN to the Super Bowl.

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Originally Posted by little bear

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playof...ory?id=6093718

My streak lives on: Never BEEN to the Super Bowl.

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And he calls himself a fan? Shit, if I had tickets to the Super Bowl (free or not) I would not miss it. Especially not if it was my team that was playing in the game. Hospital, pfffft, I would have to be dead to miss it.

I feel sorry for the guy, but the streak had to end at some point. Just sucks that it had to be when his team was in it.

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Originally Posted by BearStuff

I feel sorry for the guy, but the streak had to end at some point. Just sucks that it had to be when his team was in it.

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All kidding aside, this is a crappy time for it to end.

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Originally Posted by BearStuff

I feel sorry for the guy, but the streak had to end at some point. Just sucks that it had to be when his team was in it.

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Man, that's horrible.

At least the Packers have had 4 super bowls for him to attend...

Too bad that there have only been two Super Bowls for the Bears.

Update: Robert Cook has died.

I guess he was too sick to attend the Super Bowl