Mark Kirkpatrick would have liked this hunt to have lasted longer.

With his discovery on the first day of the competition, Kirkpatrick, 61, won HD Media's 2025 Hunt for the Helmet contest, sponsored by GoMart . In return for following clues for the annual contest published in the Gazette-Mail and finding a miniature WVU football helmet, Kirkpatrick won two tickets to each WVU home football game for this season.

"I was hoping for a few more days to enjoy the hunt," said Kirkpatrick, of Mink Shoals.

Kirkpatrick, a 1986 WVU graduate, found the helmet and an authenticity certificate at Joplin Park in South Charleston after reading the clue, "The speed limit is 60 on the interstate below," in the Charleston Gazette-Mail on Thursday, the first day of the contest. Interstate 64 is near the

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