Cancer survivor who hosts Broncos-themed show attending Super Bowl 50 – ESPN (blog)

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• Jeff LegwoldESPN Staff Writer
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Daniel Hailpern, a Denver-location higher school sophomore and cancer survivor that has hosted an NFL/Broncos themed show broadcast throughout Children’s Hospital Colorado due to the fact that very early in the 2014 season, will certainly be in Levi’s Stadium when it come to Sunday to notice his hometown group play in Super Bowl 50.

Hailpern invested 9 months as a patient at Children’s, prior to and after his bone marrow transplant. He has actually been hosting his football prove to due to the fact that Week 2 of the 2014 NFL season. It’s broadcast throughout the hospital — Channel 45 when it come to every room’s television — to children, love him, that are being treated at the massive hospital.

Hailpern and his father have actually seats in the stadium that are behind completion zone painted in the Broncos’ orange and blue. Earlier this period he possessed called the prospect of the Broncos in a Super Bowl “a dream,” and any type of potential to notice the Broncos play in the title game in individual “an absolute goal come true.”

Serving as the the hospital’s Broncos ambassador — he has actually a firm card — Hailpern likewise calls themselves a Green Bay Packers lover as well. He missed his freshman year of higher school since he joined among the hospital’s beds as he was treated for leukemia. He passed the one-year anniversary of his bone marrow transplant earlier this period and has actually resumed attending higher school.

Hailpern’s prove to came as a outcome of a contest Children’s held that asked patients to write a Broncos song, to the tune of Frozen’s “Allow It Go.” The most effective song would certainly succeed tickets to a Broncos preseason game.

Hailpern gained yet at the moment might not visit the game since he was still undergoing treatments. The song when it come to the video is exactly what the hospital determined to make in to a show. Quickly Hailpern was selecting games and giving analysis.

Several Broncos gamers have actually been visitors when it come to the prove to consisting of linebacker Todd Davis, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, security David Bruton Jr., linebacker Brandon Marshall and linebacker Corey Nelson.