You have to feel sorry for the people who bought legitimate Super Bowl tickets but never got seats because of the foul-ups at Cowboys Stadium.

Here's the weird flip side to that coin. Tony Curro and his nephew, Steve Curro, bought what turned out to be counterfeit tickets to the game from a street broker, but they wound up sitting in those very seats anyway!

Tony, a retiree from Brookfield, suspects they would have been turned away at the gate when the authentic-looking tickets refused to scan, but instead they were herded into a holding area with the hundreds of people you've read about who bought the tickets that didn't correspond to seats.

Their tickets were not re-scanned, and eventually Tony and Steve made it into the stadium. They went up to Section 414 Row 15 to look at what they thought were their seats, only to be told by stadium security that tickets were bogus. It turns out the row was purchased by Motorola for its clients. Those folks took a liking to the Curros and took pity on them because they had spent $1,300 each for bad tickets. So a couple of the clients moved to another area where Motorola had seats, and the Curros enjoyed the game from the 30-yard-line view.

"It's a bad story that turned out good," Tony said. "I will be buying Motorola products."