Homeless Couple in Wisconsin Wins Super Bowl Trip to Dallas

Ouida Wright is getting a break from her life at a Wisconsin homeless shelter to jet off to Dallas with her boyfriend to catch the Super Bowl.

Wright, of Green Bay, Wis., won two tickets, hotel accommodations and travel expenses from the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau in a contest that involved uttering a secret phrase -- "Have you been to Dallas lately?" -- to a "mystery man" walking around Green Bay, according to Fox 11 of Green Bay.

Local homeless couple Super Bowl bound: fox11online.com

Wright said she and her boyfriend, Aaron, have "lost everything" and have been at the shelter for two months. They had just finished lunch at a soup kitchen on Saturday and were going to walk around Winterfest in search of some free fun, she told the channel.

She learned about the contest when people began to ask the couple if they had been to Dallas. Wright decided to give it a try, and on her fourth query, she'd found the mystery man.

"I thought it was a joke," she said in an interview with Fox 11. "I'm homeless. Let's face it. I thought he was just messing with me.

"And then we saw the cameras," she said. "I just thought, oh my gosh. ... We won Super Bowl tickets. It doesn't get any more amazing than that. We had 90 cents in our pocket, and we have won a package that people would have offered thousands and thousands of dollars for."

For Aaron, described as a fan who "bleeds green and gold," it'll be the trip of a lifetime.

"Ever since I was young, I always wanted to go to a Super Bowl with the Packers playing," he said in the interview. "I'm still in shock over it."

Wright, who has four children and used to live in Hawaii, said she's never been to a football game. Her family used to gather outside a Kmart to listen to them.

Now, she's thrilled to be heading south this weekend.

"What better than a couple in a homeless shelter," she said. "Not that we're more deserving, but ... we're lucky to get a can of soda or a movie. And we're going to the Super Bowl."