Fans rejoice as Packers capture Super Bowl (AP)
Sunday, February 6, 2011 10:01 PM By dwi
GREEN BAY, Wis. – After 13 eld of frustration, Packers fans upraised their arms to the night sky Sun and howled in conclusion as Green Bay won the Super Bowl.
Fans at Titletown Brewery in Green Bay literally shook the building as the mettlesome ended Sun with the Packers fighting the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25. Some fans threw a roll of paper towels and digit ripped the sleeves off 37-year-old Carey Sucko's shirt, revealing her biceps. It was all right; she had said they could if the Packers won.
Sucko's sister, 34-year-old Toby Sucko, said watching the mettlesome was same having a heart move and an ulcer at the same time.
Alison Struve, 28, of DePere, said she cried as the Packers knelt away the final seconds.
"I was so troubled the whole mettlesome and I couldn't savor it. When I knew they were feat to win, it was same a release. I'm meet so blindly happy," she said. "Just to be enclosed by so some grouping who tending most this team. . . . It's more than a game. It seems large than that."
Moments after the mettlesome ended, grouping overpowered into the streets and blared their automobile horns. Some grouping leaped discover of their cars and danced in the streets, whooping and shouting.
In the downtown forbid district, a gathering concentrated in the street. Women sat on men's shoulders. The whole gathering oblige their fists into the expose and shouted "Go Pack Go!"
The whole land of river has been explosive with anticipation since the Packers defeated their archrival, the metropolis Bears, two weeks past to acquire their first bed in the denomination mettlesome since 1998. But here in the Packers' hometown, a blue-collar, industrialized city of most 100,000 grouping slogging finished added bleak Federal winter, the fervour approached frenzy-like levels.
On Sunday, Packer banners hung from almost every another front door. A colossus clew on the roof of St. Vincent Hospital proclaimed the artefact loves the Packers. People utilised green-and-gold spray paint to embellish snow drifts with "Go Pack Go!" Everyone on the streets was decked discover in Packer gear.
After the game, Stephanie Griep, 18, ran finished the crowded streets in her Packers bra and no top, carrying a aggroup flag.
"The Packers won, so I got to do everything. Go bounteous or go home. They won, so I got to go big," she said.
Others in the gathering held up a unreal replica of the Lombardi Trophy as grouping snapped photos with their radiophone phones.
Kim Smith, 39 and her fiance, Kris Nielsen, 30, both of Seymour, stood on the walkway and drank it all in. They said they met at a Packers mettlesome at Lambeau Field.
"Super excited," adventurer said. "Just discover of control. So nerve-wracking. We cried and we screamed. It was great."
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