Lynn Y raffle has Super result for Dan and Bette Landry

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Dan and Bette Landry walked around Scottsdale Saturday, still somewhat in a daze over their good fortune.Bette Landry, a nurse at Salem Hospital, entered the Lynn YMCA Super Bowl raffle, secure in the knowledge that – just like everything else – she wouldn’t win.”I never win these things,” she said. “But the raffle was for the Y’s day care center, so I bought a $100 ticket because it was a good cause.”It turned out to be a great cause when Landry got the call from the Y that she’d won.”I called my daughter (Ellen) immediately,” she said. “But she wasn’t home. So I called my son (Dan). We got the call on Wednesday and they had to know right away who else I was taking.”If Ellen had drawn the short straw, “she’d have given the ticket to Dan anyway, because he’s always been a Giants fan,” Bette said.Both Bette and Dan Landry had to make some quick arrangements to secure the time off and to get coverage for their respective jobs.”In the beginning,” she said, “I didn’t know if I’d go because I had to work. But then people told me I had to go. So I got coverage for a couple of shifts, and, luckily, this was my week to have Monday off.”Landry, a Lynn police patrol officer, got some of his brothers on the force to cover his shifts so he could go.”They helped make it happen,” he said. “I owe them. I grew up in one of those divided households about which people have spoken often these last two weeks.”My father was a big Giants fan,” he said. “And that kind of stays with you.”When he was a small child, he wrote a letter and sent a baseball card to former Giants linebacking great Lawrence Taylor, and got a letter back, plus an autograph.”My daughter remembers him saying that someday, he’d go to a Super Bowl when the New York Giants were playing,” Bette said. “And here we are.”The package calls for an almost soup-to-nuts trip.”We had to pay for the food,” she said, “but that’s about it.”The package included hotel accommodations, transportation to and from the Super Bowl, and, of course, the game itself.”I still can’t believe I’m here,” she said.While the Landry house may have been a house divided growing up, there is no such ambivalence now. They were firmly in the Patriots’ corner.”I’ve been a fan of theirs, basically, since they started,” Bette said. “We’ve seen some good years and some bad years.”Mother and son have differing views on the severity of Tom Brady’s ankle. You’ll recall that, for a week, it became the most celebrated ankle in the United States of America.”I don’t know, I think they were playing head games with the Giants,” Bette said.”No, I think it was really hurt,” her son said. “You’re going to get injured once in a while playing football.”