Sunday’s NFL Super Bowl is extra special for a group of three friends who have attended every game since the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in 1967.
Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, may be their final one together, as they are in their eighties and acknowledge it is getting more difficult to travel.
“I still think I have a few years left,” 80-year-old Pennsylvania resident and football fanatic Tom Henschel said. “I’m going to try to make it to 60, but old man age is catching up to all of us.”
Henschel will be joined by Maine resident Don Crisman, 85, and Gregory Eaton, 82, of Michigan. The three friends use the Super Bowl to meet up and reminisce each year.
Crisman, a die-hard New England Patriots fan, said this year’s Super Bowl will be his last due to “moving slower” these days.
“Barring a Mac Jones miracle next year,” Crisman said, referencing the Patriots’ quarterback. “One year at a time, but I’m feeling we’re very near the end.”
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The three are part of a small club of fans who have been to every Super Bowl. The group has dwindled over the years as members have gotten older.
Crisman and Henschel met at the 1983 Super Bowl. Eaton met them in the mid-2010s.
“I look forward to it every year,” Eaton said. “We’re like a brotherhood.”
The three are looking forward to sitting together again after COVID-19 precautions kept them several rows apart.
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“We just love football,” Eaton said, noting that he paid about $2,500 for his ticket this year — around 400 times more than what the cheap seats cost in 1967.
