Fans rooting for Giants; local hero

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Indy's first Super Bowl just wrapped up and the celebration might be outside Lucas Oil stadium; but, the excitement all over Terre Haute was for a hometown boy in the big game.

Super Bowl Sunday in Terre Haute and the local sports bars were hopping.

It looked like a tug of war at Buffalo Wild Wings. A small group of fans were cheering for the Patriots, but a much larger group rooting for the men in blue.

Most fans were rooting, not for a team, but one man, Steve Weatherford; especially at Beef O’ Brady’s.

"The majority of people are for the Giants. We wanna support Steve Weatherford. We're excited to see a local guy in the super bowl and I would say its probably 90 percent Giants fans," Dawn Lafata owner of Beef O’ Brady’s said.


But off in the corner of the bar, a group of Patriots fans with enough team spirit to make up the difference, all from out of town.

"We were in Indianapolis for the last few days we couldn't find anywhere to get into a bar there or anything like that,” Brooke Davis, the Patriots fan said of going to Beef O’ Brady’s.

A die hard patriots fan enjoying the big game in what has turned into Giants’ country.

Even as the last pass fell incomplete the chaos isn't over for these local sports fans.

"Its time for basketball to get reared up we're excited about the Missouri Valley and how well Indiana State is playing,” Lafata said of events they are looking forward to at Beef O’ Brady’s.

But for Sunday many Terre Haute natives were looking at one local hero, as he became a world champion.