Luckily, Pamela Jamison of Gaston County likes football and loves the Carolina Panthers.
Had it been otherwise, there would have been an awkward silence when the NC Education Lottery informed the Dallas woman Tuesday that she had won a pair of Panthers season tickets for the next 20 years.
Jamison, the head cook at a truck stop, won the tickets after she entered a $5 Carolina Panthers scratch-off ticket into the lottery’s second-chance drawing.
“When I entered my ticket, I kept telling my husband, ‘Wouldn’t it be something if I won,’” Jamison said in a statement issued by the NC Education Lottery.