Gregory Eaton, Tom Henschel and Don Crisman during 2025 Super Bowl weekend in New Orleans. Photo:
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Another year, another Super Bowl.
The “Never Miss a Super Bowl Club” members have continued their nearly six-decade streak by traveling to New Orleans to see the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9.
The group’s founding members, Don Crisman, 88, and Tom Henschel, 82, were both in attendance at the AFL-NFL World Championship Game at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1967, which would later become known as Super Bowl I. Gregory Eaton, 85, is also a remaining member of the group.
Don Crisman, Tom Henschel and Gregory Eaton at the 2022 Super Bowl.
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Speaking with local outlet FOX8 ahead of Sunday’s Big Game, Crisman said of his fellow club members, “It’s great to get with these guys again.”
Eaton told the outlet that the Louisiana city is his “favorite city to watch the Super Bowl” because of the people and the weather. Henschel agrees saying, “Nobody can party like New Orleans.” However, he also has a bad memory of nearly missing a previous Super Bowl in the city.
The year was 1972 and Henschel said he woke up early in the morning in downtown New Orleans on the day of the game and “couldn’t breath.” He ended up being hospitalized, but he knew it wouldn’t keep him down. “I took the IV out of my arm … and I bailed out of that hospital,” he recalled.
Crisman added, “I had no dream that it would be what it is today.”
Despite the club’s popularity, the three men still purchase their own tickets to the game. Crisman and Henschel claimed that the National Football League has only bought them tickets once, but Eaton said he has never been comped tickets by the league.
Tom Henschel, Gregory Eaton and Don Crisman during Super Bowl weekend in 2019. Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
In 2024, Crisman spoke to us in an exclusive interview about his personal experience attending the high-profile football game and how it has changed over the years. At the time, he was gearing up to attend his 58th Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
He said that snagging a ticket to the game has become increasingly more difficult due to the high price.
“I think the first Super Bowl [ticket] was $12 and now they’re in four figures,” Crisman told PEOPLE. “It seemed like the average person could attend back in those first 20 years.”
Super Bowl LIX, played at Caesars Superdome, airs Feb. 9 on FOX.
