A Westbrook family not only will see the Miami Dolphins play with tickets compliments of the team, but also will be right on Dolphin Stadium field with players before kickoff.

Patrick Coyne with his wife, Gina DellaValle, and their teenage son, Pat Coyne, are all flying to Florida to watch the Miami Dolphins on Dec. 2.

“This is our Super Bowl,” the father said. “This is huge.”

The invitation from the Dolphins came after the 18-year-old won a $40,000 Powerball game last month, playing jersey numbers of Dolphins players.

Unbeknown to her family, Gina DellaValle had written a letter to Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga and mailed it, along with a story about her son’s good fortune that appeared in the Sept. 6 American Journal.

A loyal Dolphins fan in New England Patriots country, her son graduated from Westbrook High School this year. He owns four Dolphins jerseys, and, despite ribbing from Patriots fans, he wore one to school every day. His mother said he even wore a Dan Marino jersey to a Patriots Super Bowl parade in Portland.

Friday, DellaValle got a call from Ilona Wolpin, director of community relations for the Dolphins. “You guys can come to any game you want,” DellaValle said she was told. “We felt like we were in a movie, and it’s like a perfect ending,” she said.

She and her husband rushed to Digby’s, a convenience store on New Gorham Road where their son works, to tell him about the call. “I was completely surprised. I couldn’t believe it,” the teenager said. “We’re all invited.”

Before the game, he and his parents will be on the field for an hour while the Dolphins warm up for the game. He’s buying a digital camera. “I’m going to take a lot of pictures,” he said.

He’d once seen the Dolphins play the Patriots at Foxborough, but his goal was to see the Dolphins play at home. The teenager picked a game against the New York Jets.

“I just want to win,” he said.

His luck this year has been much better than his team’s – the Dolphins are 0-5 this season.

Emulating his dad, the teenager grew up as a Dolphins fan. Even though his mother usually roots for the Patriots, she won’t be on Dec. 2. “I’m going to cheer for the Dolphins,” she said.

The family will fly to Florida and stay with a relative who lives 10 minutes from the stadium. “Never in 100 years would I have guessed this would happen,” the senior Coyne said.

Father and son once drove to Canton, Ohio, to see Marino inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “This trumps that in a heartbeat,” Patrick Coyne said about the invitation.

Marino’s No. 13 was one of the lucky numbers Pat Coyne played in the Powerball game. After taxes, he received a lottery check for $28,000.

He is still working at Digby’s.

“You’d never know that he won the lottery,” said his mom, who added that he has only spent money on two T-shirts since hitting the bonanza.

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