Josh Brown, Seahawks Kicker

	Seattle Seahawks Kicker Josh Brown Marcus Swanson/SI

As told to Nunyo Demasio

On the Super Bowl's being in Detroit

I don't know how pleasurable Detroit is in February, but right now I can't imagine any other place on earth I'd rather be. Who cares if you're snowed in for three or four days, as long as you get to that game.

On Steelers kicker Jeff Reed

I met him when we played in Seattle two years ago. It was just casual talking before the game. I don't know much about him. He's a good guy from what I've heard.

On his doing gymnastics as a child growing up in Foyil, Okla. (pop. 234)

I started when I was about four. It was something for me to do when my parents were at work. I stopped when I was 11 or 12. It was too expensive to be playing three or four different sports and paying hundreds of dollars a year to play each sport.

On starting piano lessons last year

The idea behind it was that my mother [Quana] and my sister [Karen] play piano. Everybody in our family is musical; I've been singing since I was about five. So since I have spare time and don't have a family of my own, it gives me a new skill to learn. I can play five songs -- by Keith Urban, Phil Vassar, Elton John and a couple of songs my local church does.

On his friendship with the multi-platinum-selling country band Rascal Flatts

When I was at Nebraska, they played a small theater in Lincoln. One of the guys, [guitarist and vocalist] Joe Don Rooney, is from Picher, Oklahoma, near my hometown. I introduced myself as a small-town kid from Oklahoma. And it just kind of took off from there. We all text message each other and give each other support, like when Rascal Flatts is getting awards on TV or when I've got a big game.

On pregame superstitions

I'm not really a superstitious guy, but I like fresh, comfortable socks. I don't like socks that are worn out. I want to be on the field feeling as comfortable as I can. Sometimes socks are the biggest thing.

BROWN, 26, GOT THE CHINESE SYMBOL FOR "POWER" TATTOOED ON HIS KICKING FOOT IN COLLEGE. THE 6-FOOT 202-POUNDER HAS MADE 22 OF 30 FIELD GOALS THIS SEASON.

Issue date: February 6, 2006