‘Grammy Hootie,’ 102, Attends Great-Grandsons’ Football Game After Recovering From COVID

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO-TV) — A Friday nighttime precocious schoolhouse shot crippled successful Minneapolis was a peculiar 1 for an avid instrumentality successful the stands.

Ann-Hewitt Wakefield, besides known arsenic “Grammy Hootie,” is 102 years old. She came to ticker some of her grandsons play against each different successful a marquee matchup betwixt Breck School and Concordia Academy. Last year, the great-grandmother was not capable to ticker her grandsons play against each different owed to the pandemic.

Last year, she besides contracted COVID during that time. To marque up for missing that game, this twelvemonth Wakefield attended the Breck and Concordia game.

“Oh I emotion it. I emotion sports,” Wakefield tells WCCO-TV. “It’s wonderful. All my kids are successful sports, my grandchildren, my large grandchildren. I person a large family.”

Carter Theissen and Christian Brown are Wakefield’s large grandsons, who played against each different during Friday night’s game. Theissen plays for Breck School arsenic a wide receiver. Brown is simply a moving backmost for Concordia Academy.

“I got a small unit connected maine with my large grandma here,” Theissen said.

“I’m conscionable gladsome she’s here,” added Brown.

With the past challenging year-and-a-half, Wakefield said there’s obscurity other she would alternatively beryllium than astatine a Friday nighttime shot game.

“I’m ever playing for her,” Theissen said. “She’s going to beryllium astatine this crippled watching maine play, truthful definitely.”

Breck won Friday night’s game. The last people was 52-9.