Waukesha Giants Fan Thrilled About Super Bowl Win

Sharon Corrao was dealt plenty of smack talk in the week before the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants playoff game. She took each insult in stride and responded with “We’ll see what happens.”

So, as she was surrounded by a group of Packers fans, she was able to smile as her quarterback, Eli Manning, took aim at the Packers defense and took control of the game to give the Giants a playoff win as they made their way toward the Super Bowl.

“I ended up being the happiest person at the end of the day,” Corrao said.

So when the Giants ended up beating the New England Patriots Sunday night, she was ecstatic.

“Initially, it started off great,” she said. “I was getting a little bit worried because we were going three and out.”

But then came the fourth quarter comeback that brought the Giants to a victory over the Patriots. The two teams matched up in the Super Bowl four years ago with the same outcome.

“I just had confidence in Eli,” Corrao said. “He has just done it so many times throughout the season.”

Growing up on Long Island, Corrao’s been a Giants fan her entire life. It’s how she was raised ­– to cheer for the Giants and the New York Yankees. But she found herself moving to Florida where she met a Green Bay Packers fan from Wisconsin on a blind date.

“He lives and breathes the Packers,” Corrao said about her husband. “He probably breathes green and gold.”

The two eventually married and moved to Wisconsin in 1991. She’s had to make sacrifices as a Giants fan. She can’t watch her team every Sunday and her two sons joined their father, Pete Corrao, in their love for the Packers.

Not only is she alone in the family when it comes to rooting for the Giants, she’s surrounded by crazed Packers fans throughout the state.

“It is very hard being a Giants fan, or of any other team other than the Packers, in Wisconsin,” Corrao said. “It is just all the hype. It is hard to be a fan of another team.”