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Mioshi and Christopher Johnson, the wife and son of Chris Johnson, a cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens, got a super Super Bowl send off from Chris’s fellow students at McCall Elementary in Willow Park Wednesday. Students and teachers dressed in the team’s colors, carried balloons and signed a banner the Johnsons will take with them as they head out on an 8-hour car trip to New Orleans Thursday for the big event Sunday. A pep rally was also held at McAnally Intermediate so students could celebrate with Chris’s brother, Brannon Webb. Families of the players attend a special reception, Mioshi said, and they get to sit in the end zone for the game. JUDY SHERIDAN/ALEDO EXTRA PHOTO

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January 30, 2013

Super Bowl send off

Anonymous Weatherford Democrat The Weatherford Democrat Wed Jan 30, 2013, 04:57 PM CST

ALEDO — Mioshi and Christopher Johnson, the wife and son of Chris Johnson, a cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens, got a super Super Bowl send off from Chris’s fellow students at McCall Elementary in Willow Park Wednesday.

Students and teachers dressed in the team’s colors, carried balloons and signed a banner the Johnsons will take with them as they head out on an 8-hour car trip to New Orleans Thursday for the big event Sunday.

A pep rally was also held at McAnally Intermediate so students could celebrate with Chris’s brother, Brannon Webb.

Families of the players attend a special reception, Mioshi said, and they get to sit in the end zone for the game.

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