Super Bowl Ticket Scam: Jason Elia's Cancer Story Untrue?
Jason Elia's story became well known after he announced he was dumped for having cancer. New reports, however, suggest that the entire story could have been made up.
Jason Elia was diagnosed with bladder cancer in December, weeks before he planned to propose to his girlfriend of five months who was a big fan of football. To add to the surprise, Elia also bought her $8,000 Super Bowl tickets.
Unfortunately, when Elia told his girlfriend that he had cancer, she broke up with him, citing that she couldn't handle the stress of being in a relationship with someone who had cancer. Elia never had a chance to propose and ended up with a pair of Super Bowl tickets that he was less than interested in.
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Instead of selling the tickets, though, Elia decided to go on ESPN 97.5, a Houston radio station, and announced that he would give the tickets to whoever could get him the most followers on Twitter.
When pressure for the name of the girlfriend who slighted him, the Daily Mail reported that he named the Twitter account Sokhon Sen.
When Daily Mail tracked Sokhon Sen down, she claimed that she had never been in a relationship with Elia and had only met the man once.
"She says there were no Superbowl tickets and there were no demands. Most importantly, she says, there was no breakup because there was never a relationship," the Daily Mail reported.
"I wouldn't call Jason someone I dated. More like some creepy person now that I met once in my whole life. I have no idea what this whole Super Bowl thing is nor did I know about it," Miss Sen told Daily Mail in an email.
Elia however has not been discouraged by this development, now suggesting that the ex-girlfriend he is referring to is not Sokhon Sen. Elia announced who the winner of the two Super Bowl tickets would be early Tuesday morning on a podcast, but suggested yet another game changer.
Instead of giving the tickets away to the person who earned him the most followers on Twitter, he decided to give the tickets to a man who reached out to Elia in email with a compelling story.
"I changed the rules because I got an email that tugged at my heart strings and I decided to give the tickets to that person," said Elia.
The email was sent by a father who asked for the tickets in order to take his ill son to the game because he could not afford to do so.
After making his announcement, Elia tweeted that everyone who had begun to follow him could now stop, however his number of followers doubled instead. Fans have remained in doubt as to whether the story is now true or not.
