Visa guy jinxed, misses his first Super Bowl

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So much for "the streak." One of the four men lauded in Visa ads this fall for never having missed a single Super Bowl missed the Super Bowl on Sunday due to illness. Robert Cook, 79, of Brown Deer, Wis., a big Green Bay Packers fan, was hospitalized Thursday and had to send his daughters to Dallas instead. "He's depressed," his wife said late last week. "This is sad for him. … He doesn't want to be there."

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