Replica of Super Bowl trophy displayed at Fort Benning

ROBIN TRIMARCHI/rtrimarchi@ledger-enquirer.comStaff Sgt. Brett Ortiz stands next to a traveling replica of the Vince Lombardi Trophy on display at the Fort Benning AAFES Exchange on Thursday. ROBIN TRIMARCHI rtrimarchi@ledger-enquirer.com

A replica of the Vince Lombardi trophy was on display Thursday at Fort Benning as part of a promotional tour between the USAA and NFL.

Military members and their families took pictures with the trophy and entered to win tickets to Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, Calif.

"It's a way of giving back to our servicemen," said Julian Kellman, USAA military affairs representative for Georgia.

Alex Jaffe, tour manager for Image Live, said the company had contracted with Special Mobile Exhibits to build a tent where visitors could throw footballs at virtual receivers shown on a projector. A Kinect motion sensor tracked the footballs and scored players based on how many passes they completed. He said they planned to give the person with the highest score tickets to the Falcons game on Nov. 22.

-- Kyle Nazario

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 10:34 PM with the headline "Replica of Super Bowl trophy displayed at Fort Benning ."

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