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\"I can’t wait to put on a show for the NFL’s honored guests before the game…. Health care workers from Tampa and around the country!\" she wrote Jan. 24.

Only health care workers were in attendance, according to the NFL.

The event also included special guests, surprise musical performances and game day cooking segments, according to CBS, broadcast the Super Bowl this year.

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PHOTO: A fan holds up a sign honoring heart care workers before the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Feb. 7, 2021, in Tampa, Fla.
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Local nurse named honorary Super Bowl captain

Suzie Dorner, a nurse manager at Tampa General Hospital, is not only cheering for her hometown football team but was honored on the field as well.

Dorner, who was named as one of the three honorary Super Bowl captains, has been working in Tampa for more than eight years and has \"worked selflessly, as all nurses do, to prioritize others and work endless hours\" throughout the pandemic, according to the NFL. She lost two grandparents to COVID-19 as well.

Dorner was \"speechless\" upon hearing the news, she told Derrick Brooks, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and chair of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV host committee.

The pandemic has been \"really mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting\" for all health care workers, Dorner said.

\"To be honored at the Super Bowl makes everything that we’ve all been through this year, it makes it a little bit more tolerable and something to celebrate everything that we’ve been through, the good and the bad things,\" she is seen telling Brooks in a YouTube video posted by the NFL.

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PHOTO: National Football League fans convene in downtown Tampa ahead of Super Bowl 55 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jan. 30, 2021, in Tampa, Fla.
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The honorary captains -- Dorner, as well as a Los Angeles educator and a Marine Corps veteran from Pittsburgh -- took part in the coin toss ceremony before kickoff Sunday.

What a moment. @TheAmandaGorman #SBLV pic.twitter.com/v8VM9uhPww

— NFL (@NFL) February 7, 2021

Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate who stunned the nation with an original piece at Biden’s inauguration, recited another original poem dedicated to the honorary captains.

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PHOTO: Health care worker Suzie Dorner tosses the coin before the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs, Feb. 7, 2021, in Tampa, Fla.
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Dorner tossed the coin, representing the 7,500 vaccinated health care workers present and the others around the world.

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