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Q&A with Jon Bon Jovi Posted: Tuesday September 03, 2002 6:10 PM
SI: Who's the greatest Giants player ever? Bon Jovi: Tough call ... L.T., Y.A. Tittle and Frank Gifford. But I would vote for L.T. [Lawrence Taylor]. SI: Where's the wildest place you've ever watched a Giants game? Bon Jovi: South America, Australia, in a bar in Rome during the filming of U-571. SI: You told Playboy that "playing my own high school dance was even cooler than being quarterback." Do you think Kerry Collins would agree with that? Bon Jovi: Oh, absolutely. All those guys want to want to be rock-n-roll stars. Who doesn't? It's great work if you can get it. SI: You live for Sunday football. Do you watch every game? Bon Jovi: Absolutely. I get the NFL Sunday Ticket. I buy it early to get the deal on it. Strap in, honey. We're going around the NFL! SI: When is the last time you actually paid to attend a football game? Bon Jovi: Hey, I'm a season-ticket holder for the Giants. I pay for every game. SI: Who's the best athlete in Bon Jovi? Bon Jovi: [Richie] Sambora's the best pool player and basketball player. I would last longest on anything aerobic. Dave [Bryan] would be the toughest guy on a football line. SI: On your last tour you played 100 concerts in 18 countries. When you hear baseball players complaining about travel, you must laugh. Bon Jovi: Yeah. I've been doing this for 20 years. Not too many baseball players have been around that long. Tell them to try going to Australia for an away game. SI: One of your good friends is Patriots coach Bill Belichick. How soon after last year's Super Bowl did you hear from him? Bon Jovi: I talked to Bill the next day. I told him that I thought he should wear the ring on his middle finger. A little-known fact about Bill is that he's a closet drummer. SI: Belichick and his wife actually joined the Bon Jovi tour in Europe when you guys played with the Rolling Stones. So who wins in a two-on-two basketball game pitting you and Bill against Mick Jagger and Keith Richards? Bon Jovi: [Laughs.] I think there would be no question who would win: We would. SI: Who is the most famous athlete you've ever hung out with? Bon Jovi: Steve Young comes to a lot of shows. So does Doug Flutie, and David Wells. Jon Gruden, Belichick, Jim Fassel and Michael Strahan have been there, too. SI: Is Times Square a good or bad venue in which to play a concert? Bon Jovi: Being one of the few guys in the world who can profess to having played there before, I can tell you that it actually sounds all right. The sound coming back off the buildings is not bad at all. SI: With the Nets making the NBA Finals and the Devils a perennial winner, has New Jersey overtaken New York as the sports capital of the world? Bon Jovi: Wouldn't that be nice? But there's a dynasty called the Yankees that is way beyond touch. SI: You campaigned for Al Gore last year and introduced him at a rally the night before Election Day. What personally hurt more: Gore's loss or the Nets' loss in the NBA Finals? Bon Jovi: Gore's loss. We're still in a daze and a haze and we don't know what hit us yet. But let hope '04 turns it around. SI: So what's the bigger mystery: the JFK assassination or why Joe Pisarcik didn't go down on one knee against the Eagles in 1978? Bon Jovi: [Laughs.] Pisarcik's never going to live that down. He and [Scott] Norwood are the two guys who will have to suffer that forever and ever. SI: As a hairdresser's son, what are your thoughts on NBA players wearing cornrows? Bon Jovi: Too much work for me.
Issue date: September 9, 2002
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