New parents score NFC championship game tix with 'tweet'

A Peninsula couples' "tweet" about watching last week’s thrilling 49er win while giving birth to their first child has earned them free tickets to Sunday's NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park.

It was in the maternity ward on the third floor of  Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City where Michelle Cava went into labor last weekend. In between contractions, she and her husband Vince did what most of the Bay Area was doing: cheering on the 49ers.

On Saturday, the couple was awaiting the arrival of their first born child, when someone in the delivery room asked about the score of the playoff game.

"The doctor said well let's get the game on, " said Vince Cava.

Like other 49er fans, the Cavas couldn't take their eyes off the television.

"We saw everything," said the new father. "The multiple lead changes. We saw the last 4 and a half minutes with Vernon Davis and Alex Smith." 

Cava said his baby boy will undoubtedly grow up a 49ers fan.

"They've always been in my heart because I've always watched them play," said Cava. "Whether they win or lose."     

After team CEO and President Jed York asked fans to tweet why they deserved free tickets to Sunday's NFC championship game, Michelle encouraged her husband to share their story.

"I saw the one about the woman who named her daughter "Montana Joe"  and I was like 'Wow. That's phenomenal. We're not going to beat that one,'" said Cava.
 
But the Cava tweet beat out the countless other entries in York's unusual contest, earning the couple four tickets and on-field passes to this Sunday's game .   
           
New mom Michelle is going to sit this game out, but Dad plans to take his seat at the 'stick for what might be his last game for a while..
 
Cava actually had tickets to last Saturday's match, but had to give them away because of the pending birth. Cava had said he could always get to another game, he just didn't know it would be the first NFC Championship game held in San Francisco in over a decade.