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Eagles give Super Bowl tickets to 'shocked' fan whose wisdom teeth video went viral

"I feel like I won't actually believe it until I'm there," Haley Parks said.

Haley Parks talks about her love for the Eagles following dental surgery.
Haley Parks talks about her love for the Eagles following dental surgery.Read moreHaley Parks

This is just what sisters do.

The Eagles have given two Super Bowl tickets to die-hard fan Haley Parks, 21, after a hilarious video in which she dramatically extolled her love for the team while under anesthesia went viral last week.

"I love the Eagles," Parks said in the video. "They're like my sisters."

When Parks, a student at Rutgers University and a native of Williamstown, Gloucester County, awoke from anesthesia after having her wisdom teeth removed Tuesday, her first thought was of her beloved Eagles. Luckily, her mother was there to catch her reaction on video.

"Did I miss the Super Bowl?!?" a terrified Parks asked her mom. "Oh my God!"

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Parks' father, Bob, put the video up on Facebook on Wednesday. By Thursday morning it had more than 700,000 views. By Saturday morning, more than 3.4 million people had watched it.

Around 6 p.m. Friday, the Eagles published the video on their official Facebook page with the caption "Hey Haley, we've got two tickets waiting for you in Minnesota."

Parks said she and her dad were attending a happy hour at that time and she noticed that she was getting a lot of messages about the Eagles' post from strangers.

"Random people I didn't know were saying, 'They gave you tickets!' " she said. "I was like, 'What are you talking about?' "

Then, Parks clicked on the Eagles' Facebook page.

"I just started screaming. I freaked out," she said. "Everybody looked at me, but I didn't care."

Bob Parks said people at the happy hour started coming up to his daughter to have their pictures taken with her. People on Facebook that Haley didn't even know started messaging her and offered to pay for her whole trip if she let them have her other ticket.

But Haley had no doubt whom she'd take to the game – her father, the one who instilled in her a love of football and the Eagles.

"And if I didn't take him, I would have heard it for the rest of my life," she said.

So with little time to plan, Bob Parks spent Friday night searching for airline tickets and lodging. He found a flight out of Baltimore on Saturday afternoon, but they couldn't get a flight back until Tuesday night.

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing," he said. "It's pretty surreal. We're going to the Super Bowl!"

Haley Parks, who had initially planned to tailgate with friends in the parking lot of Lincoln Financial Field and then head to Chickie's & Pete's to watch the Super Bowl, said her new game plan is "definitely a step up."

"I still can't believe it. I'm shocked," she said. "The fact that I'm going to the Super Bowl, I feel like I won't actually believe it until I'm there."