New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie confessed today that he doesn’t root for any of the football teams that command the loyalties of most of his constituents.
“My favorite football team are the Dallas Cowboys. Which by the way, it’s not the smartest thing for the governor of New Jersey to want to be is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys,” he said, averring that his candor on the topic “gets all of my political advisers nervous.”
Christie grew up in Livingston, N.J. — a great hometown, but one where most of us rooted for the Giants or Jets.
“My father was a Giants fan and I used to remember watching him when I was eight, nine years old and every Sunday he would watch the Giants and yell at the TV set. I used to think to myself why would I want to root for a team that makes you angry?” Christie said, answering a question from a student at Samsel Elementary School in Sayreville, NJ, earlier today about his favorite sports teams.
“The Cowboys were really good,” Christie recalled, and he became a big fan of quarterback Roger Staubach.
He eventually got to meet his hero, and now has a Staubach-autographed football in his office.
His other favorite teams: the New York Knicks, New York Mets, and New York Rangers.