Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will be rooting for the New York Giants to beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in two weeks, he said in an interview Monday morning with WCBS 880’s Pat Farnack.
The Giants won 20-17 in overtime against the San Francisco Giants on Sunday, hours after the Patriots survived against the Baltimore Ravens 23-20.
Malloy, who worked as a prosecutor in New York but attended college in Boston, said the Super Bowl is going to be good for the business in Connecticut no matter who wins.
“It’s very exciting for folks in Connecticut,” he said. “It’s going to be fun for everybody.”
The governor of the state divided by the “Munson-Nixon line,” poked fun at Patriots fans.
“New York fans are always engaged in good-natured hard times that we supply our Boston fans,” Malloy said during the interview, drawing laughter from Farnack. “Now the Boston people, they have no good nature at all when it comes to this stuff, we have to be very clear about that.”
Malloy said he thinks the dividing line is similar in football.
“You get above New Haven, and more people support the Boston-based teams than say below New Haven. I was born in Stamford. I’m a New York fan,” Malloy told Farnack. “By the way, I don’t have this divide that a lot of New Yorkers do that you can only be a Jets fan or you can only be a Giants fan. I’m a New York fan.”
Malloy attended Boston College with members of the Mara family, the owners of the Giants. New York head coach Tom Coughlin also used to coach at BC.
Like the state he governs, Malloy’s household is divided. Cathy Malloy, his wife, was born in Massachusetts and is a Red Sox and Patriots fan, the governor said.
Listen to the full interview here: http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/malloy_1030_120123.mp3