The Maryland Lottery's Ravens $5 scratch-off had become Brenda Grier's "lucky ticket."
The 53-year-old grandmother from Glen Burnie would buy them regularly, and when she didn't win any cash up front, she would go to the lottery's website to enter ticket codes for chances to win other prizes.
"It became one of my favorites," she said.
That's what brought her to Baltimore's M&T Stadium on Wednesday, where she learned that she won pre- and regular-season tickets to every Ravens game for the next 20 years.
"I just jumped and screamed in disbelief," Grier said when reached by telephone Wednesday afternoon.