A scavenger hunt of sorts is underway, with five teams of two scouring the area for Jason Kelce lookalikes. A little background: thousands of people applied to be part of a contest staged by Marriott to win Super Bowl tickets. As I join the teams searching high and low for the Jasons, it becomes clear to me just how phenomenal the casting was.
One of the lookalikes, a bemused guy named David, gives me a green and silver Mardi Gras necklace with the Eagles logo dangling from it. When a contestant stumbles upon him, they chest bump, and David nearly knocks him into a nearby lightpost.
Some Jasons are actors that responded to a casting call, others are school principals or work in petroleum. Many of the Jasons play an impromptu game of football in front of St. Louis Cathedral. The team that found the most footballs is awarded a second headstart for the final activity, hunting the one lookalike that possesses the golden football.
The winners will get some quality time with the real Jason, tickets to the game, and Saturday night in a luxury suite at the stadium, which Marriott has turned into a hotel room. Maris learned about the contest on Instagram during a surfing trip to Pensacola, Florida, where Donnavan was training with the navy at the time.
Once they determined that Marriott was not in fact scamming them, Maris began to feel antsy about her interview; she thought Donnavan being around while she did it would only make her nerves worse, so she kicked him out of the house. But as the only team carrying an extra body with them, Maris and Donnavan especially earned the tears that burst forth when they win.
