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Little Big Town Talk Football Ahead Of Sunday’s Super Bowl

Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet are looking forward to Sunday’s Super Bowl, which pits the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Fransisco 49ers. Jimi told us, “This…

Little Big Town Talk Football Ahead Of Sunday's Super Bowl
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Little Big Town's Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet are looking forward to Sunday's Super Bowl, which pits the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Fransisco 49ers.

Jimi told us, “This game is gonna be fun. Of course, my team is the Tennessee Titans, so I don’t have quite the heart connection that I do with these two teams. But I’m excited because I think it’s gonna be a great game. They match up very interestingly, and I think it’s gonna be fun to watch. I don’t think anybody’s gonna stop Mahomes, though. The 49er defense, they are for real.”

Phillip adds, “If you can pick apart the 49er defense, you can win this game.”

Meanwhile, LBT's Karen Fairchild looks back on her own fairly dangerous football days on the field. Karen told us, “I was the quarterback to my powderpuff team. I was running the ball and I came around the corner – this was in high school – and a foreign exchange student, I think her name was Inga, and I didn’t want to fumble ‘cause my brother and my dad were there, and I come from this very athletic family, so I held onto the ball."

She continues, "I knew I was going to go down, so I let my head hit first and I bit all the way through, but I didn’t fumble and I had a hole in my face, though. The sad thing is that it was just flag football, but I left my flags on and cleats and everything, ‘cause it looked cool, and I had blood running all down my jersey. I went to the emergency room like that, and they sewed up my lip.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.