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ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Andy Grammer has performed at a few big NFL events lately – first the national anthem at the AFC championship game last year and then he’ll sing Thursday during halftime of the Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings Thanksgiving Day game.
“You can’t have Thanksgiving and not just be like, ‘All right, w’s the football,'” Grammer said.
Growing up in upstate New York, Grammer has an affinity for the New York Giants and the New York Knicks.
ESPN caught up with him to chat about performing at sporting events, watching the Giants and what it’s like to be a Knicks fan these days.
My dad would make a cool spread. We were Giants pretty much, grew up in upstate New York so I was a Giants fan and a little bit Jets, but more Giants.
We played a lot, had a lot of friends in the community so we played a lot of tackle football, especially around Thanksgiving.
Everybody had the Starter Giants jacket, right? Like the puffy, you get on the bus and you either had the Giants one or the Yankees one, that was everybody.
Even more than that, to be at the football game, that holds a lot of weight for someone like me.
Grammer: Just because I have such a love for sports and I did grow up such a jock that to play music, which has become my love in life, at something that was my first love which is straight-up all sports, anything with a ball, was the first 16, 17 years of my life.