Kathy Sharp, a senior HSE specialist at Chevron in Louisiana, and her daughter Marina Wilson spent the Saturday before the 2025 Super Bowl™ in unique fashion. The two were part of this year’s Host Ambassador Committee Program, so they spent the day welcoming football fans to the city of New Orleans from the deck of a parade float on Poydras Street.
As a founding partner of the New Orleans Super Bowl LIX Host Committee, Chevron sponsored this year’s Host Ambassador Committee Program. The program played an important role in creating a welcoming experience by recruiting, training and organizing volunteers—called ambassadors—to greet fans as they arrived in The Big Easy.
And as an avid football fan, Sharp jumped at the chance to volunteer when the pinnacle event of the National Football League™ (NFL) came to town. She was excited to share the volunteer application with her family and ended up sharing ambassador duties with her eldest daughter. The two were tasked with handing out beaded necklaces to everyone they saw.
Well, almost everyone.
While neither Sharp nor her daughter wore either team’s colors, they _were_ stationed on the float dedicated to the Philadelphia Eagles™. And some fans wouldn’t risk associating with the rival team’s float.
“It was funny. A lot of Kansas City fans would not take beads from us,” Sharp said. “We tried. We said, ‘We have gold ones for you,’ and they were like, ‘No, no.’ Like they might be poisoned or something. But it was a lot of fun.”